HLF Young Roots Training Day

About a week before I got properly involved in this project, I managed to pick out a tweet from @HeritageLottery advertising a Young Roots training day.  Young Roots is the part of the HLF that gives grants specifically to youth-led projects, based on a partnership between youth and heritage organisations.  Peter had already directed me to research the Young Roots avenue for funding as it looked like the project at All Saints was already fitting this bill - a project, lead by me (I'm 22, HLF has decided that young people are aged 16-25), working to empower young people and get their feet inside the heritage door.

This workshop would've provided perfect information to go into the meeting with the Youth Organisations with, but unfortunately the workshop was two days after the meeting.  D'oh.

What this workshop did show though, is that the efforts we'd already made - setting up the meeting, and aiming from the start to empower young people (including me) - were the right ways to go about preparing for a HLF Young Roots funding application.

One element to come from the workshop which surprised me, which also came up in the meeting two days earlier, was the apparent necessity to offer rewards, benefits and accreditations to the young people in exchange for their involvement in the project. ... Apparently other young people don't do heritage volunteering for the fun of it *ahemhem*