The Venturists is a Youth Social Action initiative – building young people’s confidence and skills; so they take a leading role in developing the communities of the future.
The Venturists is designed for schools, colleges and community settings and gives young people the opportunity to start viable social enterprises and ideas.
The project enables young people to understand and explore issues in their community and what they might do to help.
Inspirational talks, trips, workshops and visits from local businesses, charities and community organisations help the young people to plan their own projects. The young people then access the tools and resources to bring their idea to life; going on to deliver a project that makes a real impact.
Each Venturists programme is developed in collaboration with the host organisation, enabling us to focus on specific areas of interest and deliver the best possible outcomes and impact for their young people.
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Impact
Creating future social leaders
We inspire and motivate the young people by creating immersive learning with an aim of boosting educational attainment and key skills. The Venturists programme develops confidence and resilience and improves attainment and outcomes; our recent research shows.
of young people said they were more motivated to put effort into challenges and school work
said their communications skills have improved
Awards
The Venturists have created some outstanding projects about the environment, homelessness, poverty, wellbeing, physical health and animals.
Jill Taylor
Participate Projects
Outstanding Educator of the Year 2022
Sani
Primary Student of the Year ‘Leader’
The Careers and Technical Education Partnership
Zahra
Youth Active Citizen
The Community Stars Awards
Archie’s Farm
Ryecroft Primary School
BBC Make a Difference Awards 2023
Zeke and Arifa
Recycled Green House
The Business of Science Innovation Award
FAQs
Its positive, practical action that young people take to make a difference for others, their community or the environment.
Through engaging with the community, schools can make the best use of their local assets. Utilising the local skills and businesses and community organisation in school settings can extend and enrich learning opportunities and positively influence young people.
Most of our work is with years 5 and 6 of primary school and 7 and 8 in high school. Everything is designed bespoke for your setting – we have previously delivered projects the focus on STEM, Arts, Maths & Creative Writing. If you have an idea for something, get in touch!
Because everything we do is bespoke, there is no set price to deliver a programme. We often have funding, which means we can match fund projects and sometimes fully fund them.
The young people continue to amaze us with their ideas – here are a few projects they have delivered:
- A greenhouse and playground made from recycled materials
- Wellbeing packs, soup and recycled ‘crisp packet’ blankets for homeless people
- Creating craft bags for children in hospital
- A food bank and social super market within a school setting
- A ‘Casserole Club’ for families cooking on a budget
- Planting an orchard that gifts fruit to people living in poverty
- Leadership
- Emotional Intelligence
- Ideas development
- Business skills
- Links with Curriculum
- Key Skills
- Local Connections
- Business Connections
Ready to be a Venturists School?
Case Studies
Leading the way – youth social action. 15 young people from Newby Primary school have been changing their local community through the Venturist programme, funded by The Manjit Wolstenholme Fund.
15 young people from Whetley Academy have been changing their local community through the Venturist programme, funded by The Manjit Wolstenholme Fund.
Zahra joined The Venturists from Byron Primary School, where 15 young people set out to help their community thrive and create social change. Working alongside our Venturists team, Zahra identified something she wanted to change in her community and developed her project ‘We Are One’.