Youth Echo

Welcome to Youth Echo

Youth Echo is a three-year programme funded by the City Bridge Foundation through the Propel Grant, designed to put young people at the heart of change in Haringey. The programme aims to empower young people to lead system change actions to tackle roots causes of racial inequity and interrelated poverty and violence through targeted actions

Working in partnership with North London Partnership Consortium and the Godwin Lawson Foundation, Youth Echo amplifies the voices of young people from Black and Minority Ethnic communities, supporting them to influence the systems and services that shape their lives. From health and education to employment and community safety, we create spaces where young people are not just heard, but actively shape solutions.

Through social action projects, mentoring, and pathways into employment, we equip young people with the skills, confidence, and opportunities to lead. The result is a growing movement of empowered young people driving meaningful change across their communities; their voices are not only valued, but impossible to ignore.

"I feel Youth Echo is an amazing approach in Haringey and one that is very unique in terms of how young people can be referred and offered support. I have found the team extremely kind, open, and transparent about what the goals are... Your team listens to the real concerns of young people in the community." 

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HYON: Helping to Put Young People Front and Centre

Last Wednesday Haringey Youth Organisations Network (HYON) and the Coproduction Project came together to deliver a workshop for youth organisations in Haringey on ‘Coproduction with Young People’.

During the workshop we explored what coproduction is before working together on some activities that encouraged participants to think practically about how to overcome common barriers and what they need to have in place to get coproduction up and running. Many of the organisations shared challenges they had faced in their journey to coproduction, and we worked as a group to come up with solutions. Finally, we explored how to showcase coproduction in a funding bid and how to budget a project to account for additional time, resources, and costs needed for putting coproduction in to action.

To follow on from this we will be developing some resources on carrying out coproduction with young people, including a checklist for incorporating coproduction into funding applications. These resources will be available to all members of the Haringey Community Youth Network (HYON) which is free to join and also entitles members to free one-to-one capacity building support. If you would like to join, please fill out this form.