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North Yorkshire Youth Annual Report 2024–2025

North Yorkshire Youth (NYY) is a North Yorkshire charity delivering youth work and outdoor education across the county and beyond. In 2024/25 it reached 6,372 young people through its youth clubs, hosted 4,564 young people at Carlton Lodge Activity Centre, and supported 242 young people through its Change Direction diversion mentoring scheme. Total income grew 6.7% to £1.94 million. Carlton Lodge achieved 100% satisfaction ratings across all measures. NYY runs 17 direct delivery youth clubs, supports dozens of voluntary clubs, and delivers specialist mentoring, independent visitor schemes, Duke of Edinburgh residentials and community programmes in York.

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17 direct delivery youth clubs across North Yorkshire; support to voluntary youth clubs across Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough and Selby; Change Direction youth mentoring diversion scheme (ages 10–17); Achieve personal development mentoring in schools; Carlton Lodge residential outdoor activity centre with high ropes, kayaking, bushcraft and raft building; Independent Visitors volunteer befriending for looked-after young people; Buddy Network volunteer support; Tang Hall Reaching Out community programme in York; Duke of Edinburgh Award Gold Residential Custom geography from upload: North Yorkshire, UK

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 6,372 young people accessed NYY youth clubs; 4,564 young people visited Carlton Lodge Activity Centre across 142 groups
Key Metric 2 242 young people accessed the Change Direction mentoring scheme; 144 young people accessed the Achieve mentoring scheme in schools across Scarborough, Whitby and Redcar
Key Metric 3 £1,936,561 total income — 6.7% growth year on year; Bursary Fund supported 608 young people from 58 groups since inception

Key Outcomes

  • Carlton Lodge satisfaction surveys: 100% rated visit as meeting aims, catering and overall impression as good or very good
  • 5 out of 6 young people on the Volunteer It Yourself (VIY) programme gained City & Guilds Level 3 qualifications in carpentry, decorating, health & safety and brickwork
  • 350 young people attended Reaching Out projects in York; 40 young people received one-to-one volunteer support through the Buddy and Independent Visitor schemes

Geography

Yorkshire and the Humber

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
440,000+ young people aged 4-18 active members across 7,000 Groups
Key Metric 2
140,000 volunteers supporting the movement across the UK
Key Metric 3
373 Sections opened or re-energised in England between April 2024 and March 2025
0.3% overall growth in young people (ages 4-18), driven by 31% increase in Squirrel Scouts (5,200 young people)
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55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
Key Metric 2
45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK
Key Metric 3
95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers
191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
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Key Metric 1
91,000 young people supported across 24 countries in 2024/25, including 67,368 in the UK
Key Metric 2
Over 70% of the 25,500 young people who completed Employment and Enterprise programmes achieved a positive outcome
Key Metric 3
Education programmes engaged 63,000 young people (69% of the total), the largest share of delivery
In the UK, 71% of Employment and Enterprise completers achieved a positive outcome, including 39% into employment or self-employment
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
851 students supported through the In2STEM programme in 2024, from 2,036 applications
Key Metric 2
27,447 hours of in-person STEM placement experience provided to participants
Key Metric 3
94% of participants know what it means to work in STEM after the programme, up from 69% beforehand
97% of alumni who applied to university were successfully offered a place, based on UCAS data from 1,760 alumni