Earlier this year we updated on the recent visit by YCW National President, Marc Besford, to Preston YCW Group for a catch up on their activity and plans over the coming 12 months.
During the meeting there was an update on the EmpowHER project. EmpowHER inspires young women and girls to lead change in their communities. Launched to mark the centenary of women’s suffrage, the youth programme encourages young women and girls to use their voices for positive change – just as their predecessors did 100 years ago.
This has led to a new opportunity with the British Red Cross. To embed the legacy of the EmpowHER programme at the Red Cross, we have developed a pilot programme to continue working with youth organisations to support young women to lead inclusive and meaningful social action opportunities.
Preston YCW Group was chosen as a delivery partner to work with Red Cross to build on the EmpowHER legacy of peer leadership in youth spaces. This pilot programme aimed to encourage EmpowHER graduates to become Red Cross Ambassadors and lead other young people in short-term social action, fundraising or campaigning activities on behalf of the Red Cross. The young people were supported locally by their youth workers and nationally by the British Red Cross EmpowHER team over ten weeks.
Marc said: “I look forward to hearing more about what the young leaders got up to on their programme and how this unique collaboration has helped further what they have learnt on the EmpowHER project.”
For more information on the EmpowHER project, click the link here.
