Let’s demonstrate our impact and influence through our stats and stories as we explore and demonstrate the profound impact and influence of youth work on young people, communities, and society. 

This Youth Work Week will be a platform for all of us to showcase the extraordinary impact of youth work and remind ourselves and others of its immense value.  

By demonstrating our life changing impact we will strengthen our sector, celebrate our achievements, and create lasting change for young people.  

Let’s make sure that our decision makers and funders are in no doubt about the power of youth work and the role we play in overcoming the barriers of poverty, improving mental health, making sure our young people achieve and attain, participate in society and make their voices heard.

So, let’s make a noise with our impact and show our influence by highlighting the results. It’s all about demonstrating that impact across universal and targeted youth work.  

Strong practice examples, new initiatives, ground-breaking work, radical approaches, tried and tested, policy change work, pilot projects, peer education, research and examples of partnership working. All with impact stats, evaluation and case studies. 

We want you to share your content throughout the week showcasing the very best of your work, all through the lens of the impact it has on the young people you work with. 

Each day we will highlight a different ask to secure the future of the youth work sector using the #InvestInYouthWork #YWW23 hashtags.

You can get involved by sharing your stories, your impact, your successes, or even your challenges and frustrations – anything goes! To help you shape your content, we’re focusing on a different theme for each day of the campaign.

Youth workers are some of the most creative people out there, so we’re encouraging you to share your impact and stories in any way, shape or form you see fit! Struggling for inspiration? Check out some ideas for content you could create throughout the week, and why not kick things off by sharing some of the campaign assets we’ve created for you!

At the end of the day, youth work is all about impact. The impact on young people’s wellbeing, their happiness, their attainment, their life chances – as well as their community.

We’ve created a Youth Work Impact Hub on our website, and over time we want to populate it with the best examples of youth work changing lives. But we need your help!

You can send us any examples you have of youth work’s impact – it might be a case study, a publication, some news coverage your project received. Maybe it’s a video testimonial from young people you’ve worked with, or some research or evaluation demonstrating the impact of your youth work approach.

Whatever shape, whatever form, you can send it to us an we’ll keep on building our wall of impact so that together we can demonstrate that #YouthWorkChangesLives and keep on making that call for decision-makers to #InvestInYouthWork.