How We Got Involved
In 2023 and 2024, Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) across the UK - including the Humber VPP - organised Hope Hacks for their local areas, giving young people chance to work together to generate ideas for key issues in their communities.
During the event, the young people split into smaller groups to discuss the following themes:
- Mental Health and Wellbeing - Support for young people.
- Community Safety - Features of the community that help young people feel safer.
- Youth Voice and Influence - The benefits of giving young people a voice and the ability to influence policy.
- Diverse Experiences - How 'who you are' affects how safe you feel.
- Sports and Other Activities - What activities work best and how can we encourage inclusion?
- Life Skills - Real world learning, education and support.
- Aspirations and Opportunities - Goals, career ambitions and hopes for the future.
Each group had the opportunity to present their ideas to local leaders and a wider audience at the end of the event. Locally, this feedback informed our future work and helped us understand what young people believe to be the greatest solutions to problems in the Humber region.
The ideas from the workshops were included in a national report - written by the Hope Collective - to create the biggest needs assessment of what young people think a fairer society looks like, what the current challenges are for young people and what answers would drive long-lasting change. This report was used in policy decisions, allowing the government to hear the voices of young people.
We held Hope Hacks across all four local authority areas in the Humber region: Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.
