Youth PWR has been awarded £99,250 from the Million Hours Fund to launch Safe Hours, a new programme that will create extra evening and weekend youth sessions for young people in Waddon. Safe Hours will build on Youth PWR’s existing Rooms Project and will significantly increase the amount of safe, positive time young people can access after school and at weekends. Over the course of a year, the programme will deliver 650 hours of youth work, including 552 additional hours funded through the...

This September, PWR Magazine  released a new feature on Dylan Aupetit for the Catalyst edition, exploring what it really means to champion equity in tech, not just in words, but in action. The piece was interviewed and written by our CEO, Dee Onigbanjo. But for us at Youth PWR, this was not only about publishing a strong article. It was also about the experience that sat behind it. Earlier in the summer, Dylan visited our Youth PWR office in Croydon and spent time with the team as we brought...

Between June and July, we had the pleasure of hosting three students for work experience at Youth PWR. It was a simple but important reminder of why placements like this matter. When young people get the chance to step into a real working environment, ask questions, contribute to tasks, and be trusted with responsibility, something shifts. Confidence grows, skills become real, and the world of work starts to feel less distant. Across the placements, we built a structured week that gave each...