"Justice for young people, Justice with young people"

Just Youth was established in 1998 as a Registered Charity (1072492) based in Salford. Our aim is to explore Justice for young people, with young people through formal and informal activities. We believe that by helping them to address the issues of Justice, Equality and the Environment we can support them in making positive life choices and in becoming full and fulfilled members of society.

Most of our formal work with young people takes place in partnership with schools who negotiate with us to deliver sessions that challenge young people’s thinking and attitudes about themselves and others.

Whilst most of our informal work with young people takes place in our Chrisp Project which operates on an “open door” basis offering sessions and space for local young people and young refugees & asylum seekers who attend the project in their leisure time.

We also offer regular chaplaincy provision for young people and staff in four local schools.

All our work with young people addresses their right to explore their own potential within themselves, their local community and the global world in which we live·and so develop their own social, moral, spiritual and cultural responses to these issues.

We use a wide variety of activities to engage young people in our work ranging from visual and verbal inputs, practical hands on and experiential tasks, questions and answer sessions, as well as time and space to consider and discuss issues of importance to young people and their responses to them.

While Just Youth has its base and inspiration as a Catholic faith organisation, it is open to people of all faiths and none, and does not tolerate discrimination in any form.

The Just Youth staff team comprises Spiritan priests, qualified youth workers, lay workers and young adult volunteers engaged in a gap year experience.·The Spiritan priests and volunteers live together in a community house based on our site in Lower Kersal which is placed in the top 3% of the Governments Index of Deprivation.