Youth Mentor

**Welcome from North**

**Yorkshire Together**

Hello, and thank you for your interest in joining North Yorkshire Together.

North Yorkshire Together is a partnership between North Yorkshire Sport,

North Yorkshire Youth and Rural Arts. We support communities across the county to feel happy and healthy. Currently we’re delivering programmes to support young people on the coast, children on Free School Meals and young refugees. We continue to respond to community need, identifying new projects as we develop.

**We’re excited to be recruiting a full-time Youth Mentor**, based in two Whitby schools, to shape and deliver our **Achieve Programme**, which is funded by Anglo American and the Woodsmith Foundation to support young people to realise their potential. We’re looking for a committed, experienced Youth Mentor who will undertake significant one
- to-one work, as well as group facilitation, with a specific cohort of young people over 2 years. This is a brilliant opportunity to join a project that will support real and positive change to the lives of young people.

From a personnel perspective, you will be directly employed by North
Yorkshire Youth, however you will engage with team members from across organisations on a daily basis to work cohesively as Team North
Yorkshire Together.

Best wishes,

Max May

Strategic Director
North Yorkshire Together

**About Us**:
**North Yorkshire Together**

North Yorkshire Together is a partnership between North
Yorkshire Sport, North Yorkshire

Youth and Rural Arts. We support communities across the county to feel happy and healthy.

The partnership emerged during the pandemic as an emergency response programme, funded by the National Lottery Community

Fund. We delivered thousands of activity packs, digital devices and bursaries to thousands of those most impacted by the pandemic via a network of community partners. We also delivered a free to access online arts programme for people of all ages.

Since 2021, North Yorkshire Together has delivered FEAST, the Holiday
Activities and Food (HAF) Programme in North Yorkshire, on behalf of

North Yorkshire County Council, funded by the Department for Education.
The HAF programme enables children on benefits-related Free School
Meals to access food and enriching activities during the Easter, Summer and Christmas holidays. We work with 80+ brilliant organisations from across the community, educational and private sector, to deliver tens of thousands of free spaces - and meals - a year.

We also currently deliver enriching activities for refugees in Northallerton and Selby, and have further projects in development within health and adult care settings.

As a partnership of three cross-sector, cross county organisations, our partnership provides a robust, unique and far-reaching framework and delivery model to make real change across North Yorkshire. We believe firmly in our shared values, and the art of the possible.

**North Yorkshire Sport**

**North Yorkshire Sport** is a registered charity and the Active Partnership for North Yorkshire and York. We use movement, activity and sport as drivers for positive change. We want North Yorkshire and York to be a place where everyone enjoys moving more, leading to healthy and happy lives.

Our work is primarily focussed on supporting and influencing wider systems to use movement, activity and sport to improve people’s health and wellbeing. This includes partnership working with a wide range of organisations, from Sport England to Local Authorities, as well as the voluntary and commercial sectors. To support this work, we run a number of direct delivery programmes countywide as well as at our own facility in

Harrogate, the **Bilton Health and Wellbeing Hub**.

**North Yorkshire Youth**

North Yorkshire Youth is a registered charity and exists to ‘to help children and young people realise their full potential by enhancing and improving our range of learning and development opportunities’.

That was the vision of our founders, way back in 1941, and it’s still our aim today.

We provide opportunities for children and young people to learn and grow by:

- Supporting youth work in North Yorkshire communities
- Providing adventurous activities from Carlton Lodge Activity Centre
- Providing training opportunities for young people and those who work with them.

**Rural Arts**

Rural Arts is a registered charity that delivers inspiring and inclusive creative opportunities that enrich lives and connect communities. Working across 3,500 square miles of England's largest county, our vision is
**creativity in every community in North Yorkshire**.

We provide over 400 events and activities each year at **The Courthouse**,
**North Yorkshire's only professionally-run, cross-discipline arts**

**centre**, which is also home to an award-winning café, an artisan shop and rooms to hire.

We programme **70 professional performances** per year in rural venues and lead a range of **wellbeing