What does this organisation/group do or has it done:
Babbasa is aimed at assisting the development of young people; this is at the core of Babbasa’s work coupled with mobilising committed professionals to offers skills that can help support young people’s needs. This is achieved by their offering accredited and work-related skills training for young people and providing access to a network of professional mentors (one to one), youth service providers and other support networks.
In addition they run a range of other projects working across the sectors which is related to the empowerment of young people.
Why should this organisation/group win this award?
Babbasa works gives tools to a range of young people and supports them to gain confidence in their lives to be able to make informed choices about their future. They reach out to many who others have given up on and assist them to look to new horizons and set goals that can bring out the best in them.
Their mentoring project is a successful scheme that others should look to. The scheme involves young people and adults from across the city, the sector and communities to ensure that young people have the opportunity to be mentored while encouraging and supporting adults with experiences they can pass on and share to serve as mentors.
Babbasa is much respected by those they work in partnership with that straddles public, private and voluntary sector agencies due to the high quality services Babbasa delivers.
How has this organisation/group managed to bring people from different communities together?
Babbasa brings together young people from all walks of life with professional adults from all walks of life. They are intrepid. They will approach schools and colleges, young people’s services and build relationships so that staff are acutely aware of them as an organisation and what they offer. They train young people to be youth ambassadors to support other young people who are following similar paths.
Babbasa is aspirational and constantly liaising with a diverse range of young people, schools, youth services, businesses, public sector agencies to help young people through challenging times and help them to find the right paths that will shape their future. The organisation’s diverse staff, volunteers and Trustees’ dedication to the young people they support and the services delivered is paramount.
Tell us about this organisation's/group's good practice and how it celebrates diversity and ensures inclusion
Babbasa celebrates diversity in that it works with young people from disadvantaged communities and who face multiple barriers to employment and other opportunities and provides ways in which they can be inspired and be able to realise their employment and enterprise ambitions, irrespective of where they live, their nationality, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality or faith. It gives young people value and worth.
Their Change 300 futures” is an ambitious campaign to support 300 aspiring young people from Bristol’s disadvantaged inner city communities to progress into work, further education or self-employment over the course of the year.
Babbasa trains and inducts adults from across a range of communities to serve as mentors for young people; a significant number of adults have never been mentors before; the organisation therefore also progresses the skills of adults in addition to the young people who benefit from it too. |
