Youthscape Innovators

Have you ever looked at Youthscape resources and wondered how they were developed? Or used some Youthscape products with your group and wanted to feedback on how the young people interacted with the content? Well - have a chance to see Youthscape’s creativity in action and get involved in the development process as a Youthscape Innovator.

The Youthscape Resources and Innovation Team are recruiting individuals to help form a resource testing lab. One of the most valuable steps in the Youthscape innovation process is piloting. The reaction and feedback from piloting is essential to making a product that genuinely meets the needs of young people and youth leaders. The youth groups who pilot new projects are the unsung heroes of resource development and we need you to be part of that content shaping process!

Want to find out more?

We’re hosting a Youthscape Innovators reception on the Saturday afternoon at the NYMW. Come join our innovation team in the meet up space where we’ll outline our plans for this new initiative. Alternatively, we’ll be hosting an information session online on Tuesday 3rd December from 7:30 – 8pm.

Register your interest by completing the personal details section at the bottom of the page.

What is required of you as a Youthscape Innovator:

Youthscape Innovators will test out two new resources and help us evaluate one recently launched product each year. We’ll send you the product and then it’s over to you! Run it with your youth group, see how it goes and ask young people for their opinion. Then let us know what you think works, what could be done better, and how the group found it overall. Your comments will directly impact the final content and design of the resource and will help make those products the best they can be. This is a voluntary role to run alongside the youth work you are already doing.

How do I get involved:

As part of the sign up process, we’re asking youth leaders to fill out a brief application letting us know a little bit about yourself, the young people you work with and your context. If you are successful, you will be invited to join our community of collaborators where you’ll undertake a short training session outlining the kind of feedback we’re looking for and letting you know about upcoming projects. For every resource you test, we’ll gift you a copy of the printed product of that resource when it launches.

Long term we would love Youthscape Innovators to be involved all aspects of the innovation process, not just the end stages. Our hope is for Innovators to join with us as we uncover new opportunities for resource development and get stuck into our creative thinking process as we brainstorm new ideas.

Youthscape’s best resources have been influenced by real youth leaders and young people and we’d love you to join us in shaping future projects.