An ITV study has revealed 1 in 3 teenaged young people have admitted to suffering from depression.

A host of local businesses have stepped up to support their local community by donating staff time, business expertise and products and services to youth charity Sheffield Futures as part of the Give & Gain Day programme taking place Friday 17^th May. 

The Prince’s Trust in partnership with The Source Skills Academy in Sheffield, are offering you an opportunity to learn new skills to get you into your dream career in retail.

The staff who make up the CYTs have always been here, but have come together under the name Community Youth Teams! We work with young people who may need a bit more extra support, or who are taking risks and need help to improve their lives and make better choices.

Local voluntary/community partnership led by Sheffield Futures secures £50,000 development funding from the BIG Lottery fund to roll out a major new jobs initiative called Talent Match across theSheffield city region.

A hard working member of the Sheffield UK Youth Parliament (UKYP), run by local youth charity Sheffield Futures, picked up a gong from the British Youth Council (BYC) during the prestigious Youth Voice Awards at their annual reception held in the Houses of Parliament last month. Sally Scrivener aged 16, represents the West of the city and attends Sheffield Girls High School. 

Sheffield Young Advisors got the opportunity to visit BBC Media City in Manchester as part of their unexpected prize for winning 3 special awards in the summer which went to their Manager Sarah Stevens, special recognition award for Sheffield Young Advisor (SYA), Luke Clewes and for a project undertaken to lower NEETs (young people Not in Education, Employment or Training) in the city of Sheffield.

Sheffield girl Amaka Uchegbu has debated to support the winning campaign with her co-members in the House of Commons.  During the annual sitting at the House of Commons, members of the UK Youth Parliament have voted to campaign for a youth-led overhaul of the national curriculum in 2013.  Of the five topics, ‘a curriculum to prepare us for life’ was chosen as the issue which forms the UK Youth Parliament’s campaign for the coming year. The issue received 154 of the 295 votes cast.

Sheffield’s UK Youth Parliament run by youth charity Sheffield Futures, was very proud of 17 year old Amaka Uchegbu who debated in the House of Commons on Friday 23 November 2012

Yes, your friendly neighbourhood Community Youth Teams have been at it again, not only have the teams been putting on positive activities for young people called Dark Nights across the city e.g. taking 70+ Roma-Slovak young people from the North of the city to the After Dark Fireworks night, they have been busy getting themselves recognised for their Community Cohesion work in the city at a national level.  The recognition comes from none other than the National Youth Agency itself! For more details take a look on the website http://www.nya.org.uk/youth-work-week-2012 for more information.

National Youth Work Week is on all this week…

For more information on CYTs work and the part they play in the city take a look at: https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/caresupport/childfam/helpforchildrenfamilies/community-youth.html