Springboard Youth Academy

Springboard Youth Academy

We provides newly arrived refugee and asylum-seeking youth (aged 13-18) with a vital opportunity to make friends, acquire English language and life skills, and begin to rebuild their lives in the UK. By combining participatory learning, life skills and holistic support into action-packed half-term, summer and weekend programming, we bridge the gap in support for young people left behind by the mainstream school system – and set them up to thrive.

Activities

We offer, Saturday, half-term, and summer programmes that include innovative space for newly arrived teenagers, where they can make friends and settle into life in the UK.

• Saturday Programme: runs weekly during term-time
• Half-term Programme: runs daily during October, February and May half-terms
• Summer Programme: runs daily for three weeks in August - each day (10am-3pm) consists of a participatory English session, sports, a hot, halal lunch and a life skills or arts workshop, plus the opportunity for additional 1:1 support if needed.