Our Bright Future empowered young people to become skilled and engaged citizens.
We worked with talented young people from diverse backgrounds. Some came from marginalised communities, some had a disability and some were at risk of homelessness. All the young people involved in Our Bright Future had one thing in common: their willingness to roll their sleeves up and improve their own life along with creating a positive change for the environment.
Not only were young lives improved but local communities become more cohesive and vibrant. In addition, local environments became richer in wildlife and more resilient.
In addition, the 31 projects came together face to face or online, to learn from one another and share best practise. This unique model of Share Learn Improve, helped to strengthen each project and led to a larger impact across the UK. You can learn more about this partnership working ethos in our good practice guide Growing Together.
We gathered strong evidence about the way we support the development of our environment and young people. Our evaluation reports are aimed to share learnings for policy makers and organisations delivering projects for young people and the environment. We also created loads of resources and good practice guides – all available here.
Our Bright Future brough the youth and environment sectors together across the UK. We developed relationships between organisations and showcased how cross-sector working can be achieved.
“The biggest USP for this programme has been the link between the environment and youth sectors. These fields [have been] coming together to deliver a project in lots of different ways. [I] think that is something we should always try to keep together, the network we have made between the two. The youth sector is under-resourced so if the two fields can work together, that would be of benefit.” Internal stakeholder

 

The programme has engaged 128,495 young people.
8,674 young people gained qualifications such as e.g. OCN, NVQs, John Muir, DofE Award, AQA.
1,627  young people have entered internships, work experience, work placements or apprenticeships.
203 enterprises were started by young people.
More than 3,400 spaces have been created or improved, such as parks, community orchards and nature reserves.