Our approach

GMYN believes all young people deserve access to positive experiences.

Our innovative services offer exciting opportunities and support that young people cannot access elsewhere.

Our young person-centred approach provides a flexible support offer so young people can opt to participate when needed. Young people receive tailored support to meet their short and long-term needs.

We embed ourselves in local communities and work alongside the local authority, social workers, carers, partner organisations and schools to ensure cohesive, joined-up support. 

“GMYN has turned my life around. If it weren’t for them, I don’t know where I’d be right now –they are like my family”

Young person – Manchester care leavers programme

We bridge a gap between young people and where they could be. This is through helping them build key life skills, increasing their confidence, improving their mental health and wellbeing and building a support network.  Once these essential foundations are in place, young people have greater stability and can start to look to the future. 

How do we do it?

We ask each young person what it is they want to do!

They choose their activities and what they want to get involved in. This means we can be flexible, youth-led and responsive.

GMYN delivers various programmes and services which provide many different supportive offers. Our weekly development and drop-in activities include: 

  • Independent life skills workshops (cooking, budgeting, team building, social skills)
  • Wellbeing / mental health activities (walking, gardening, volunteering, arts & crafts, sport, social activities)
  • Work readiness sessions (CV writing, interviewing, work experience) 
  • Social action and volunteering, connecting young people with platforms to have a say and influence decisions on issues that matter to them
  • One-to-one support to meet the needs of individuals by exploring issues and barriers, providing individualised emotional support and setting goals to work towards

GMYN Theory Of Change

Here is a visual representation of GMYN’s theory of change, which explains how we believe our work will create positive change for young people.

Stay up to date

GMYN plans jam-packed summer of activities for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children

At GMYN we are planning a jam-packed summer of actives for the separated young people we support, also known as Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC).

Young people from our Changemakers Youth Voice group share their experiences of voting in new project 

Young people from our Changemakers Youth Voice group have shared their experiences of voting as part of a new Electoral Commission project.

‘Since taking part in GMYN’s work readiness programme a lot has changed for the better’

One of our young people has shared how taking part in one of GMYN’s work readiness programmes has changed his life for the better.

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