OUR 2023-24 ANNUAL REPORT IS HERE
Our 2023-24 Annual Report is here and we're excited to share it with you. Find out what Street League achieved in the last year, our impact, and hear from our Senior Management Team about progress across the different areas of the organisation.
Key highlights:
We are pleased to share that we helped 1,317 young people into a job, apprenticeship, education and/or vocational training programme. This is a slight increase of 2% in real terms from last year (2022-23: 1,284).
We engaged a total of 2,550 unemployed young people this year, which collectively resulted in 33,921 individual attendances.
1,197 or 47% of those individuals commenced a 10-14 week Academy programme. 589 engaged via our job clubs and 624 via our street sports service respectively. 280 commenced via activity within secondary schools and 28 young people were supported on a Modern Apprenticeship.
We delivered and certified 823 qualifications in our Academies. 671 young people achieved a qualification and 93 young people achieved two or more qualifications.
Female participation stands at 28% overall or 705 in total. In 23-24, we saw 643 young people from Global Majority communities on our programmes or 25% overall.
A total of 236 or 9% of young people disengaged from our programmes this year, a reduction from last year’s disengagement levels (2022-23: 410/15%).
At year end 997 young people remained in Street League services or with direct support from staff.
Our CEO, Dougie Stevenson, shares his opening message:
It remains a privilege to lead Street League and I’m delighted to present the CEO Report for 23/24. Street League is an incredibly special organisation, which achieves significant, life-changing, positive impact on the lives of the young people that we serve. This is down to the talent and commitment of our people. Our staff act as the key relationship in young people’s lives.
This year we celebrated our 20th anniversary, with two decades of impact in local communities helping thousands of young people to be healthier and enter employment - this is something that we are immensely proud of. Our services continue to work in communities with young people who need support and who face significant personal and environmental barriers to entering work and progressing with their lives.
Making the move into adulthood is not easy and our young people can face extra and complex challenges including housing insecurity, poor mental health, incredibly low confidence, low or no academic attainment, care responsibilities for infirm parents or younger siblings, no support network or access to money or welfare. We believe in our young people, we don’t believe in labels or rhetoric; we know that with support that they can be active citizens in their own right. Our staff act as the change agent to give young people ‘a leg up’ to realise their potential.
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