Our Youth Advisory Group: Comms and Cross-Regional Competitions

With the start of February half term came the first meeting of our Youth Advisory Group for the year! This is an opportunity for young people on our Post-16 programme to come together to tell us at Envision what matters to them, and what changes they’d like to see.

Each region hosted their own Youth Advisory Group on the theme of communications and social media, so we had 3 events running simultaneously in Bristol, Birmingham and London involving around 30 young people in total. The day started off with an introduction to what communications and social media marketing is, with a lot of discussions about what makes content engaging.

In the afternoon, teams in each region had the opportunity to put what they learnt into practice, and create their own content to be posted on Envision’s social media. All teams based their content on a recent trend – which even included the ‘chill guy’ meme!

The day ended with a competitive call across all of the regions, where teams had to pitch their idea to our Communications Manager, Finn, who then decided on a winner for the day. Well done to team “Chill Guy” from London, who took the win! To wrap up the day, teams then relaxed with a social to get to know each other further, where they showed off their bowling or mini golf skills.

Keep an eye on our social media to see all the content that the young people made!