Recommissioning of GM Civic Leadership Youth Engagement Project to Youth Leads UK

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Greater Manchester Combined Authority awarded a contract to Youth Leads UK for the second year of the GM Civic Leadership Youth Engagement Project, aimed at tackling the underrepresentation of racially minoritised people in civic and public life by encouraging young people from racially minoritised communities to become active in their community and aspire to be future civic leaders.

The project objectives include engaging racially minoritised young people in political education, participation, and representation; ensuring their views are recognised by public sector policy and decision-makers; encouraging future participation in civic leadership to create a pipeline for the Civic Leadership Core Programme; and broadening involvement across demographics, protected characteristics, and backgrounds.

In the first year, Youth Leads UK met the required deliverables: working with diverse racially minoritised young people to explore barriers and opportunities to community involvement and civic leadership; supporting young people to develop an accessible and inclusive resource for youth groups, schools, and other youth services; and launching and promoting the resource with the young people.

However, the ambitious timescales initially proposed by GMCA were not comprehensively met.

The contract value is £25,000.