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Birmingham Voluntary Youth Sector Network

The Birmingham Voluntary Youth Sector Network (BVYSN) brings together organisations that work with and for young people across Birmingham.

This network is founded on the belief that young people, and those working with and for young people on youth policy, strategy and practice have a key role to play in improving how youth provision is delivered and experienced across Birmingham.

Our aim is to pursue this agenda and provide a space for engagement, critical analysis, learning, and reflection and to be a resource for all our members and partners.

The BVYSN was founded in 2001 by a group of youth practitioners that felt community & voluntary sector youth agencies in Birmingham needed to create a sustainable space for the community and voluntary sector to connect, organise, develop and influence youth strategy and practice at both, strategic and grass roots levels.

What is the BVYSN set up to do?

The BVYSN strategic aims are to:

-   Influence policy development that has an impact on youth provision across the sector
-   Build the capacity of young people, youth agencies and the workers that support them
-   Champion youth participation and promote models of good practice, locally regionally and nationally
-   And ensure progressive equality practice is central to its work
 
We make it happen by:

-   Ensuring meaningful community & voluntary youth sector representation takes place within Birmingham
-   Enabling the perspectives and aspirations of the community & voluntary youth sector to be discussed at strategic level
-   Being actively involved in strategic processes that impact on young people, youth practitioners and youth service providers
-   Engaging young people, youth agencies and youth workers in activities and events that support developmental needs and aspirations
-   Consulting youth service providers in order to increase the quality of intelligence available to influence the youth agenda
-   Facilitating the meaningful participation of young people in service, policy and strategy development, especially those affected by disadvantage and exclusion from mainstream processes

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