YC Newsletter: January to June 2021 |
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The ongoing challenges of the Covid Pandemic have continued to impact on our young people and their communities, with socio-economic inequalities highlighted and increased as a result. As Lockdown has eased in the UK, the youth violence has increased, with London witnessing 18 teenagers killed as at the end of June 2021, more than the total in 2020, and potentially reaching a record number by the end of 2021. With no Youth Clubs and Social Coaches/Youth Workers to guide them, Young People will be recruited by criminal gangs and the resulting youth violence. The Youth Charter continues its National and Global Call 2 Action to address this pandemic of youth violence and Young Lost Lives... |
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February The Youth Charter continued its Digital Transformation with the launch of its Digital Archive, which is an in-depth record of the agency’s work over the past 28 years. The Digital Archive provides a rich currency of Projects, Programmes, Conferences, Events and a Sport for Development and Peace Library, which supports our ongoing campaigning, advocacy and social brokering with young people, communities and the public, private and third sector, and is a resource for academics, policy makers and practitioners. |
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March The month of March marked the Youth Charter's 28th Anniversary, following its launch at Wembley on 23rd March 1993, as a legacy of the Manchester 2000 Olympic bid and the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games, with call for a #LegacyOpportunity4All... |
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April The Youth Charter teamed up with the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham to launch an innovative and exciting one-stop digital platform to network, upload and share information on leadership within sport, art, culture and digital activities and re-engage all those who have been affected during the pandemic for organisations working with young people in the area. |
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YC Founder & Chair, Prof. Geoff Thompson MBE FRSA DL, produced a Carbonwise article for Unlock Net Zero, outlining the ongoing issues and challenges of climate change, carbon zero footprint, the language, the culture and the societal changes that are now required for future generations, which have never been more critical in these uncertain and challenging times. |
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May The Lloyd Cowan Bursary was launched at the start of May with support from global sport stars, including Sprint legend Usain Bolt, London 2012 Olympic heptathlon champion, Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill and Britain's fastest woman, Dina Asher-Smith Lloyd Cowan was an international hurdler who became one of Great Britain's most successful coaches. He guided Christine Ohuruogu to World, Olympic and Commonwealth titles over 400m, and Andy Turner to European and Commonwealth 110 metres hurdles victories. |
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A hugely popular and much respected coach, Cowan’s death in January 2021 from COVID-19 led to an outpouring of grief from the international athletics community. The 'Lloyd Cowan Bursary' will award grants of up to £500 twice a year (in March and September). They will be available to coaches, and to unfunded athletes, aged 16-23, for whom cost is a barrier to accessing developmental opportunities in athletics. |
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The Youth Charter also marked the first anniversary of the George Floyd killing and the resulting global response to a racial inequality that shook the world. In the past 12 months there has been social, cultural, economic, and political debate, discussion, and dialogue primarily in the USA and the UK with global activism continuing to mark an historic moment in time that has since highlighted all issues of inequality irrespective of what you look like, where you come from, what you believe in, what you sound like, or your lifestyle choice. |
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June YC Founder and Chair, Prof. Geoff Thompson MBE FRSA DL continued the #Fight4theStreets campaign, despite recognising that he would not be afforded the opportunity to represent Team GB in Karate as it debuted at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, #Fight4theStreets... Olympic Day 2021 was also in June, and was marked by the Youth Charter through it's past, present and future Games Legacy work, #LegacyOpportunity4All... This had followed South Africa Youth Day and the 25th Anniversary of the opening of the Youth Charter's South Africa Office in 1996. As the postponed Euro 2020 championships started on 11th June the Youth Charter shared its Soccerwise programme. |
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The Youth Charter scroll was presented at the IOC Congress in Monaco by Manchester 2000 Olympic, World, European Champions, Left to Right: Geoff Thompson MBE, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE, Alan Pascoe MBE, Sir Steve Redgrave CBE, Dame Mary Peters DBE, Adrian Moorehouse MBE, Lord Jeffrey Archer. |
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Sir Bobby Charlton presents Youth Charter Scroll on behalf of The FA to the late Stix Morewa, President of the South African Football Association |
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