What Can We Do to Make a Difference?
We invite anyone who has an idea, however big or small, as to how they can ‘Make a Difference’ to tell us via our web site, so that we can all acknowledge your efforts and provide assistance. Also, if anyone knows of someone who has Made a Difference, please let us know so we can applaud them and pass on their achievements and ideas to others. Who knows? They may even receive an award at one of our prize giving events!
The Make a Difference Programme involves holding meetings at schools, clubs and any organisations involving the youth in the area, engaging with them to identify what they see as the problems in their life and communities. We aim to assist them in achieving their goals to ‘Making a Difference’ to their lives and the lives of others throughout their communities.
Remember the vast majority of young people are NOT bad.
Our ‘Make a Difference’ programme is for all ages and offers an opportunity to stop, reflect and move forward by taking responsibility for your actions, at the same time considering those around you, respecting and accepting their shortcomings.
The problem of extreme violence, which is manifesting itself in knife crime or physical attack, resulting in injury or death, is well rooted within our community, especially within our multi-cultural urban areas, and it needs everyone to do something to make a difference.
We all need to start looking at our individual attitudes and actions, stop talking about it and start doing something. Talk is Cheap and Action Speaks Louder and it’s now that we must come together and interact with our children & youths as well as parents and pensioners.
If we all make a small personal change to our communication and engender a more positive environment, we can breed out these terrible attitudes of aggression and fear, which has resulted in a broken society. This manifests itself in explosions of extreme violence and the resultant loss of young people.
The youth of today are our parents of tomorrow, our business entrepreneurs & community leaders of the future.
Speak Out and Make your Views heard. We welcome your comments and positive ideas and suggestions [contact us now with your ideas]
- Intervention & Assistance
- Mutual Respect for each other
- Talk to People as you would want to be spoken to
- Engage With your Neighbour
- Respect for other’s space and property
- Lay down the weapons of youth destruction
Not all young people are bad, so please let’s not label all young people as knife wielding hoodies. The vast majority of our young people are fine upstanding citizens who are more scared than we are to be witnessing these terrible events and loss of their school friends.
STOP THE SELLING OF ALCOHOL TO UNDERAGE PEOPLE.
IT RUINS THEIR SENSE OF REASON AND IS ILLEGAL.
Alcohol – How do young people obtain alcohol?
One way is for them to be served alcohol in local convenience stores. Intimidated shop owners and staff can sometimes relent to youth pressure to serve alcohol to underage drinkers. I have personally witnessed young people purchasing alcohol from these convenience stores and seen them in the street carrying bags containing alcohol. THIS HAS TO STOP it’s simply not fair on the teenagers.
If you see any shop or store selling alcohol to children or youths who are obviously under the legal age of 18, you MUST report them to the Police. Let’s name and shame them by recording such activity on your mobile phone or camcorder and STOP this illegal behaviour which is damaging our young people.
If you are asked to buy either Alcohol or Cigarettes for underage youths PLEASE DO NOT DO IT and warn the shop that you have been asked. You can make a difference if you say NO.
