Element Society in Sheffield launch a new Covid-recovery community project

Elements Sheffield is at the forefront of youth and young person wellbeing across Sheffield with its new Community Responder team.

Over the coming weeks, they will be recruiting and training at least 50 ambassadors based across the city who will lead their own community projects to help their local community recover from the pandemic’s effects.

Element Society is an independent youth-led organisation which has empowered over 4,000 young people to change their lives and their communities since opening in 2013.

It began working with just 12 young people and swiftly ballooned due to its ethos and youth empowerment attitude.

Young people on Element’s programmes have completed over 181,000 volunteer work hours, making a difference in Sheffield’s lives and communities.

This vital voluntary action has contributed at least £1.7 million of impact to the city.

A spokesman said: “This new project is led by Jasmine Watson, Dave Green and Tashinga Matewe, but the critical work on the ground will be carried out by Sheffield’s fantastic young people, aged 16-24, based in local communities.”

The project’s initial stages will be carried out remotely until it is safe to work face to face.

There will be full use of digital formats, including videos of the challenges faced in our local areas.

This project will show the best of Sheffield’s youth, and point new ways forward as we come out of the pandemic.

The spokesman added: “We would like as many people as possible, from politics, education, community leadership and the media to support us in this vital work.”

Please contact Elements Sheffield directly for more information, and to offer your words of support and encouragement.

Email [email protected] or [email protected], telephone 0114 299 9210 or visit www.elementsociety.co.uk

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