Hope Hack

• Mental health and wellbeing: The provision of support for young people
• Anti-Poverty: How we can minimise the impact of poverty on children and young people
• Race and diversity: How ‘who you are’ affects how safe you feel (including topics of ethnicity, disability and sexuality)
• Gender: A gendered response to feeling safe and being safe
• Access to opportunities: The benefits of giving young people opportunities (including topics of education, employment, housing and diversionary activities)
• Media: The representation of young people and how it makes you feel
• Community Safety: Features of the community that ensure young people feel safe

A Hope Hack is a day-long workshop that aims to give young people a voice and focuses on their hopes for the future. This involves groups discussing their thoughts and solutions on issues that affect them, their lives and their communities.

Over the last two years, the Hope Collective have been running a series of Hope Hack events across the length and breadth of the UK. The Hope Collective formed to support the campaign for Damilola Taylor, a 10-year-old boy who wrote of his hope to change the world, shortly before his untimely death in 2000. Hope Hack events honour his memory by dedicating the campaign to young people and their aspirational stories of ambition and hope. The Hope Collective aim to establish real change that enables the UK’s most vulnerable communities to be free from poverty, violence and discrimination.

Click here to visit the Hope Collective website

Mental Health and Wellbeing

If you need help with anything that’s bothering you, a friend or family member, these people can help: