Shaping your youth service
It’s important to us that Young Tower Hamlets is a youth service that has been designed by young people. That’s why we run regular events to find out what you want your youth service to look like. This page will be regularly updated with the latest events.
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Previous events
First series of Hackathon events
Our first series of Hackathon events took place in May 2023, with 400 young people taking part.
Our Hackathons feature a variety of workshops designed to stimulate discussion, generate ideas and provide young people with an opportunity to contribute their vision to design their future youth service. The workshops included:
- Needs and wants: Young people identified issues that matter to them and gave their views on opportunities and activities that would most meet their needs.
- Seeing the Future: Using Virtual Reality headsets, young people learnt about the ‘Metaverse’ and the prospects it could offer for engagement.
- Nailing the Brand: Ideas for logos and strap-lines were created as well as thoughts on what would and would not appeal to them.
Second series of Hackathon events
We held a second round of Hackathon events in November/December 2023, for LGBQTI+ young people, SEND young people up to the age of 25 and Somali boys and girls.
Over 100 young people took part in activities, such as:
- Debate game: To break the ice, the sessions started with a ‘debate’ game, where young people could respond to discussion topics that they agreed or disagreed with.
- Identifying needs and wants: Young people identified issues that matter to them and gave their views on opportunities and activities that would most meet their needs.
- Presenting their perfect youth service: Once young people had discussed their wants and needs, they were then challenged to design their dream youth service. In small groups they used creative methods to design and present their visual representations of an amazing future youth service.
