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Public Achievement

Public Achievement

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Public Achievement, is seeking to recruit volunteers in Belfast, Armagh, Enniskillen and Derry/Londonderry for two key projects.

The first is to recruit volunteers for the organisation’s Away From Violence project and its award-winning WIMPS (Where Is My Public Servant? – www.wimps.tv) project.  The second is to recruit for the British Council’s Active Citizens programme – in which groups of adults will learn about citizenship at local, national and international levels, and carry out a joint project. 

Volunteer coaches work with groups of teenagers to help them to design and implement action projects that address issues they care about, in their own communities. 

The Away from Violence project focuses on helping young people to develop alternatives to violence and avoidance as responses to conflict, and has evolved to include two sub-projects: 

Beyond the Margins is a project on young people and policing, currently being piloted in north Belfast. We are working with young people, training local volunteer coaches, and also training police officers as coaches.  The young people work on action projects – supported by their coaches - that aim to build community confidence in policing, and improve police relationships with local communities and teenagers.  We have plans to expand the project to other areas in the year ahead. 

Breaking the Cycle works with young women and young people from minority ethnic communities to address violence in their lives.  We work with groups to enhance their level of participation in society with particular reference to racial equality, gender equality and policing.  

The WIMPS project is run by and for young people, and is based on the idea that we should hold elected representatives to account. 

Young people are trained in media skills, campaigning and group work. They make films about issues they care about, including interviews with politicians and other public servants. Issues range from the everyday, such as improving rural transport, to very hard hitting issues – such as the brutalising of young people by paramilitary groups in so-called ‘punishment attacks’.

Coaching is NOT about ‘fixing young people, telling them what to do, running sporting activities, or imparting knowledge.  

It IS about helping them to do real work on real issues in their communities, and fostering partnerships between young people and adults to bring about social change. 

Coaches who are currently working in these areas have said: 

“I could not have imagined that by volunteering, I would be given so many opportunities” 

 “The past 18 months for me have been a real eye-opener” 

“This project is very different to any other project I have previously been involved in”

 

There is also an opportunity to work with other adults in the British Council’s “Active Citizens” project, looking at social and community development on a local and global scale, carrying out a local project with others and even taking part in an international study visit. 

At this stage we are primarily looking for volunteers from the Foyle, Armagh, Fermanagh and Belfast areas but no matter where your are from, if any …or all… of this appeals to you…and you are over 18, go here to complete a short expression of interest form or find out more by either: 

Calling Linda on 028 90 442813, visiting www.publicachievement.com ,or coming along to our stall at a recruitment event near you: 

North West Regional College (Foyle) – Wednesday 10 September 11am – 2pm

The Playhouse (Foyle) – Wednesday 10 September 5pm – 7pm

Southern Regional College (Armagh) – Tuesday 16 September 10.30am – 2pm

The Marketplace Theatre (Armagh) - Tuesday 16 September 6pm - 8pm

Public Achievement (Belfast) – Thursday 18 September 6-8pm

South West Regional College (Enniskillen) Thursday 25 September 10am-1pm

Fermanagh House (Enniskillen) – Thursday 25 September 6-8pm

Belfast Metropolitan College (Titanic Quarter) Wednesday 8 October 10am-2pm

St Marys Teacher Training College (Belfast) wednesday 8th October 12pm - 4pm

 

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Location

7 Donegal Street Place
Belfast
BT1 2FN
United Kingdom

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Linda Harvey