Youth participation

Trussell’s youth participation group, Stand for Change: Young People Against Poverty, are using their lived experience of financial hardship to build understanding about the causes and impacts of poverty, and encourage more people to stand for change and end the need for food banks.

Read on to discover, in their own words, what Stand for Change have been up to and their plans for the future.

Stand for Change

Who we are

We are young people, from across the UK, who are passionate about a common goal: fighting the causes of poverty and finding solutions for all.

We’ve lived through hard times, experiencing the constant worry of financial hardship. We want a better future for ourselves and others. We want to inspire other young people to join our fight against poverty.

What we’re doing

We’ve come together from all over the UK to build a project that’s about young people, for young people. We have:

• Met with artists to learn new skills
• Created educational resources
• Co-designed a report with Ipsos
• Attended events and online activities
• Taken weekends away to build Stand for Change and get to know each other

Future ambitions

Along the way, we’ve created bonds, shared ideas, and grown in confidence in a safe space that we have built together. As our project grows, we want our work to help:

• Break down stereotypes and negative attitudes about the causes of poverty and how it affects young people.
• Use our own voices and create platforms for other young people’s voices, to advocate on the issues that matter most to us.
• Change minds in the UK about the causes and impact of poverty and inspire others, whatever their age, to see that they can be part of making a positive change for all.

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