We’re incredibly pleased to announce that we’ve been awarded grant funding from the Million Hours Fund, supported by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and The National Lottery Community Fund, to create a new youth hub.
The new youth hub will be a new space for young people aged 11-18 to access mental health support, within our existing North Tyneside Safe Haven on Wallsend high street.
The youth hub will be a safe, welcoming drop-in space offering young people free, inclusive activities, alongside mental health support.
The service will be co-designed with local young people, offering a younger youth hub and older youth hub space and trained youth workers will work with them where they already spend time; building trust, reducing isolation and continue to offer wider support to young people, while developing the service.
This lottery grant funding responds directly to young people’s calls for safe places to go and trusted adults to turn to; helping strengthen wellbeing, confidence and community connection with them across North Tyneside.
Mandy Coppin, Head of Children and Young People’s services at Everyturn commented:
“This funding allows us to create a safe, welcoming spaces where young people can access the right support at the right time, without barriers or referrals.
“By co-designing the youth hub spaces with local young people and meeting them where they already are, we’re responding directly to what they’ve already told us; they need to feel supported, connected and confident.”
For more information on this new youth hub and our existing children and young people’s services, visit Children & young people | Everyturn