CASE STUDY

FUSE Youth Cafe

Youth Scotland Youth Awards's Story

This case study highlights the experiences of youth workers and young people from Fuse Youth Cafe, which has been using Youth Scotland awards to accredit their young people's achievements during everyday youth work activities.

Fuse Youth Café Glasgow is a charity working in East Glasgow providing a variety of services to young people of the area. The area has a high level of deprivation and the young people face the risks and challenges associated with areas of high deprivation.

Fuse offers a safe place for young people with a café area, gig space, annexe and internet café. The internet café is supported by Glasgow Kelvin College. Activities, including formal and informal learning, are offered as supported and developed by young people.

Youth Scotland awards follow a plan - do - review method that supports young people to tackle all kinds of challenges, creating a framework to plan their activity, capture their own evidence and reflect on everything they've accomplished.

"For me, what I think is there are so many ways for young people to get one of these awards and it's part of capturing that evidence of everyday experiences of being in a youth organisation and showing them what they've actually got out of attending youth clubs."

FUSE Youth Cafe

Outcome

All Youth Scotland awards are credit rated by SQA and levelled on the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF 2 - 9).

To find out more about our awards, including how to register and the resources available, visit our website: https://www.youthscotland.org.uk/awards/