Young people of Portsmouth hosts Youth Ambassador launch event to promote their outstanding ideas to improve the city
A charity that supports underserved young people hosted the Youth Ambassador Campaign Launch Event to showcase their ideas on how they would like to improve the city of Portsmouth for other young people and the wider community.
URBOND, a multi-award-winning Portsmouth-based charity, hosted the event on Friday 1st December, to support its brightest young people in their endeavours to create a safer and stronger city for all. The event attendees included: Cllr Steve Pitt (Leader of the City Council) Cllr Suzy Horton, Hampshire Constabulary, local members of the community and the parents.
URBOND is proud to introduce their Youth Ambassadors, who work together on issues affecting young people in our communities and help generate ideas and solutions to support everyone.
Their curated team of Youth Ambassadors have strategically been selected to work with the organisation, partners and professionals to help empower young people. They support them as they overcome obstacles, build confidence and resilience. In addition, the ambassadors work closely with URBOND to help create opportunities, wellness and success for young people and their future.
URBOND’s Youth Ambassadors will share their stories and represent the voices of young people from URBOND and their respective communities, work together on issues affecting youth in our communities to come up with ideas and solutions to support all young people, empower, inspire and support our youth to become young professionals, share their own and other young people’s experiences and opinions on issues affecting their development, support us and our partners to develop youth friendly policies and procedures to create more opportunities for all young people, irrespective of their beliefs, backgrounds and ideologies.
The Youth Ambassadors are supported to effectively communicate and present their ideas, views and opinions to others, Interact with young people in an inspiring and engaging way, develop their passion, enthusiasm and commitment to supporting all young people in their journey towards becoming good citizens, work as a team to solve problems and come up with new ideas, use their initiative to recognise and act on opportunities which may align with the work of Youth Ambassadors and URBOND, promote and uphold the values of equality and diversity and behave in a non-discriminatory manner.
The campaigns URBOND’s ambassadors are working towards are Health & Wellbeing, Equality & Diversity, Opportunities and Community. Some of the ideas explained at the event included increasing the number of people first aid and lifeguard trained, to improve the level of mental health care provided, introduce more accessible sport sessions, increase the number of young people placed in work experience or apprenticeships, to host inter-generational community events and much more!
URBOND CEO, Ousmane Drame, added “The city of Portsmouth has some bright young people and we strongly believe they hold the key to creating a better future for our lovely city. Our job is to make sure we work closely with our Youth Ambassadors to make sure all young people in the city are provided with the tools and opportunities so they can do better in life. We are calling on all the
businesses, organisations and professionals in the local area to get in touch to find out how we can work together for the best interest of our city.”
A very inspiring event. I am looking forward to hearing what the Ambassadors have achieved over the next year. Cllr Steve Pitt
Cllr Suzy Horton who also attended the event made the following comment :
The future looks great with these young people already leading in their community. I am very impressed