Description of organisation

Community Youth Ventures C.I.C. (CYV) is a UK based community interest company that focuses on inspiring young lives through innovative and diversionary activities. Our aim is to empower young people to make positive choices, enhance their opportunities and widen their horizons including the impact and support within the community around them.
CYV provides strategic oversight and expertise as well as direct youth engagement through a range of youth programs and projects. Changes to the youth sector for both statutory and voluntary areas along with the rise in exclusions from education and the development of destructive habits young people have lost faith in the possibilities that await them. We provide opportunities for young people to be supported, realize their potential and have the opportunity to engage with positive activities. Through collaboration and cooperation with complimentary providers and services; CYV works in partnership with schools, youth organisations, statutory services and local communities. CYV provides a service to young people that will enhance their personal, social and emotional development; whilst embedding expertise, knowledge and insight into voluntary and community sector.
CYV inspires young lives through positive engagement in Buckinghamshire and surrounding areas and was formed in direct response to the lack of services available and the growing number of young people involved in risky behaviours and negative lifestyles and untapped opportunities. CYV aim to identify young people who may have chaotic lives supporting them in the transition to adulthood by offering a positive support system to enhance positive development and well-being.
We particularly work with young people from more challenging backgrounds and settings and those often deemed to be 'hard to reach.' The majority of this area of work is street based with targeted interventions working on issues and topics such as anti knife crime, gangs, anti social behaviour, positive expression and community cohesion.

Inclusion topics

This organisation is willing to involve volunteers who face situations which make their participation in activities more difficult, from the following categories for different types of project:

• Disability
• Economic obstacles
• Educational difficulties