Introduction to Youth Social Action

Youth social action incorporates a range of activities including volunteering for a charity, providing peer support, campaigning or fundraising for a specific cause.

Doncaster College is delighted to announce that we will be training a Youth Social Action Apprentice, in partnership with the Pears #iwill Fund and Association of Colleges, to empower students to take action and address local issues, as well as creating opportunities to undertake meaningful work experience around social action.

The apprentice will be employed and study here at Doncaster College, where their role will be to coordinate and manage youth social action activities. They will split their time equally to work in a further three local partnership colleges, East Riding and North Lindsey carrying out activities which will be student-led and in collaboration with community organisations and charities to ensure wide participation, impact and sustainability. They will also look to engage with local employers for support.

The apprenticeship will last 18 months and will have the opportunity to collaborate with local and national community organisations and charities to ensure wide participation, impact and sustainability of activities. They will have the opportunity to engage students volunteering in social action activities, including those from a BAME background and providing opportunities to the needs of disabled students.