Young Leaders

The Young Leaders Programme empowers young people by teaching leadership skills to help them positively impact their communities. It focuses on building confidence, resilience, and responsibility, encouraging you to become future leaders. Through volunteering opportunities as a Young Leader, the programme promotes personal growth, teamwork, and decision-making. Participants are inspired to take initiative, tackle challenges, and develop a mindset centred on service and social impact, while contributing to the Legacy Youth Zone community.

Benefits

• Confidence Building: Leading others helps you build confidence in your abilities, decisions and ideas. You learn to trust yourself, step out of your comfort zone and embrace challenges with courage
• Self-Awareness: Through volunteering and helping others, you gain a deeper understanding of your strengths and values
• Problem-Solving: Figuring out the right course of action
• Work Experience, including references, help with CV and personal statements, access to further work experience opportunities or future training programmes
• First pick for events, workshops, experience days, rewards and other opportunities
• Awards and recognition: Work towards earning Jack Petchey achievement awards or completing a Duke of Edinburgh Award
• Young Leader Trips and Events
• Free hot meal and drink when volunteering on session

Young Leaders must complete an application process and attend an induction and training session prior to beginning volunteering at Legacy. The induction includes practice activities, safeguarding training and role introduction and gives Young Leaders an opportunity to connect with each other, build their communication and teamwork skills and set their personal development goals for the programme.