Envision

About the charity

Envision is a youth education charity working across the UK to provide hands-on support for young people on issues relating to citizenship education, sustainable development and the local community.

Our mission is to empower young people to realise their capacity to make a difference, and to build confidence, aspiration and skills necessary for affecting social and environmental change.

Our vision is to see young people empowered to take responsibility for issues around them and demonstrate leadership in their communities – from knife crime to climate change and homelessness to bullying.

We believe that:

• Within every individual lies the desire and capacity to create positive change - all that is required is the opportunity.
• Learning by doing is more effective than simply learning through instruction.
• Positive change is brought about by examples of individuals and groups making a difference: 'the ripple effect'.

The Envision programme engages and encourages young people from diverse, inner-city and BME backgrounds to explore different issues that concern them.

Envision staff and adult volunteers support these young people in accessing resources and developing the skills and motivation to tackle those issues to create a project with real community benefit.

The projects they undertake serve to challenge the negative stereotypes of young people as apathetic and disengaged.