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Interactive events for young people’s services
We organise interactive workshops and events, organised for your authority, organisation, partnership or programme by accessing a diverse range of creative arts, culture or heritage inputs. Our model is now to do this through supporting your existing networks, groups, carers, schools and projects to work towards one or more main events, and to help you create legacy. KSL has partnered with innovative people and groups to engage young people, families and carers, to showcase, perform and celebrate achievement.
Our awards-based events, are designed in a (semi or fully) structured and enjoyable way to enhance young people’s their mental and physical health and wellbeing, by helping them build and reinforce confidence, openness, resilience and stability. If they are in care, this is a powerful way for councils to publicly emphasise their role as corporate parents. We can work with the charity Shaftesbury Young People to provide us with the advice and support of their care leavers for events.
KSL young people’s celebrations may be a way to motivate those on the edge of systems – council care, criminal justice, mental health, etc, or those who may be socially excluded – ‘not in employment, education or training’. Our events serve as a focal point for engaging, channeling and sustaining the energies of young people and their parents/families/carers, to better take care of their mental and physical health and achieve more.
impact
Personal and social impact of such projects has been evidenced by the research of Matarasso.
Our projects document their outcomes, e.g. by using an Outcomes Star. We can estimate the value of their impact compared to their cost and/or provide other evidence e.g.:
- Photographs of participation
- Activity-based statistics
- Website/blog hits
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2010 Case Study:
Lewisham Council Award for Looked After Children and Young People
The event was an inspirational celebration for up to 120 people featuring a diverse programme of music and the performing arts. 40 young people completed our feedback postcard at the end; their average ratings on each aspect of the event were 4/5 (very good). KSL brought together:
- celebrity music artists JB Sparks and Ghetts
- dance acts
- spoken poetry
- illusionist performance
- celebrity host: MTV Base presenter Darae Palmer
- the council’s DCS, AD and lead Cabinet Member
The KSL team:
- Handled the entire organisation of the event including invitations, award management, stakeholder liaison, venue and AV management and all supplier relationships
- Worked closely with a council steering group to develop an engaging, relevant and inspiring programme and coordinate invitations and nominations
- Utilised interactive media to communicate the event
- Engaged with children and young people to motivate them to take part
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2010 Case Study: Creativity4Health
Our “Partyarts” project with artist collective R-art involved working with councils and carers to organise and deliver a highly successful celebratory Creativity4Health Arts Party. KSL organised it at the Design Museum in London SE1, funded by the Chances4Change Big Lottery funded programme, with contributions from 120 young people and carers from 14 different local authority-based creative projects in South East England.
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New Projects
We now are looking for client council(s) to participate in a new Roots2Achievement project using heritage in its many forms as a means to deliver celebratory events, and to reinforce achievement by helping to better link past, present and future. Grant funding may be available – contact us for the latest information
