Are you aged 16-25 with personal experience of housing issues or homelessness? Want to use your experiences to make a difference for young people? Join us!
What you’ll do:
- Create and run workshops for other young people to prevent homelessness and inform them of their rights
- Develop campaigns to change policy and the working practices of professionals
- Share your views with government, social services and others to create change
- Be on a judging panel to fund new youth initiatives to make a difference for homeless young people
What you’ll get:
- Take part in a free training programme to get skills and knowledge of:
– Housing rights
– Campaigning and making change
– Workshop design
– Workshop facilitation - Take part in paid opportunities paid London Living Wage (currently £13.15 an hour) including workshop delivery and influencing local and national policy
- Food and travel costs covered
- Support with your career goals and aspirations
- Be part of a group of like-minded people who want to make a difference for others
The commitment:
- Training on Wednesdays and Fridays, 11am – 4pm at Coram’s offices (Friday 19, Friday 26, Wednesday 31 July & Friday 2, Wednesday 7 and Friday 9 August)
- Once training is completed you will attend monthly sessions at Coram to develop skills further and meet as a group (dates and times will be set around the group’s availability)
- There will be opportunities to take part in workshop delivery, events, consultations and panels – we will send you dates as and when these are taking place
Deadline to apply: Midnight on Tuesday 16 July
Privacy notice
Please make sure you have read the privacy notice before applying. Then simply fill in the form at the bottom of this page. If you would prefer to complete this by video or voice note please send to Amy Spiller on amy.spiller@coram.org.uk or WhatsApp 07984 290860.
We ask for your date of birth so we can make sure you are eligible for our programmes and to make sure that we follow the right processes to support you in line with your age. We ask for your age, gender, ethnicity and country of origin so that we can evaluate our programmes and make sure we’re working with a diverse range of young people.