Step Up To Serve
evolve is a step change in youth volunteering for the Jewish community and is helping to lead the way in the national Step Up to Serve campaign www.stepuptoserve.org.uk
The Step Up to Serve campaign is a collaboration across many different voluntary organisations in the UK aiming to increase the number of young people participating in social action to 50% by 2020.
Step up to Serve promotes 6 Principles of youth Social Action:
- Challenging: stretching and engaging, as well as exciting and enjoyable.
- Youth-led: led, owned and shaped by young people.
- Socially Impactful: creating positive social change that is of benefit to the wider community as well as to the young people themselves.
- Progressive: progressing to other programmes and activities.
- Embedded: becoming the norm in a young person’s journey towards adulthood and a habit for life.
- Reflective: valuing reflection, recognition and reward.