we make youth work simple.
Here For Youth helps masjids and community organisations across the UK run youth provision that teenagers actually want to be part of. Our mission is to make youth engagement local, simple and effective.
since
2011
2011
Here For Youth helps masjids and community organisations across the UK run youth provision that teenagers actually want to be part of. Our mission is to make youth engagement local, simple and effective.
Harlesden Ummah's Youth Hub, March 2023.
Communities don't lack commitment. They lack support. 760+ youth centres have closed since 2012, leaving many young people without safe, local spaces, while masjids and community groups want to help but often don't know where to start.
We've been delivering open youth work sessions in hundreds of communities across the UK since 2011. Since 2022 we've focused on training, coaching and accrediting local organisations through our Youth Engagement Framework, so great youth work can happen everywhere, not by accident.
For a decade, we ran Nitemania: youth nights in masjids up and down the country. Games on the prayer carpet, pizza on the floor, and circles that carried on long past midnight.
We'd arrive, run the night, and move on to the next town.
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6 March 2020 was our last Nitemania. Seventeen days later, the country locked down, and it gave us time to ask a hard question: when the night ends, who is there for those teenagers the rest of the week?
One night reaches the young people in the room. A trained youth worker in every masjid reaches them every week. It's teaching someone to fish rather than handing them one, so we stopped running the nights ourselves and started training communities to run their own.
Lockdown ends Nitemania. We use the pause to rethink how youth work can reach teenagers every week, not just for one night.
Our Youth Engagement Framework, a podcast, pilots like The Game Spot and The Big Brunch, and the first weekly Youth Hubs.
We start accrediting local organisations on the effectiveness of their youth engagement.
The 1st Muslim Youth Engagement Awards, and our voice at the National Youth Sector Advisory Board in Westminster.
The 2nd Muslim Youth Engagement Awards bring together more than 300 guests from grassroots organisations across the UK.
Muslim Youth Futures, our research with Goldsmiths, is launched in Parliament.
1,800+ youth workers trained, 9,600+ teenagers reached every week, and the 4th Awards.
Develop confident youth workers and volunteers through our one-day "How to Effectively Engage Teenagers" workshop.
Weekly coaching, free resources and guidance while each Youth Hub launches and grows.
Recognise quality through the nine areas of our Youth Engagement Framework.
A small team, backed by hundreds of volunteers in communities across the UK.
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