LOOPS on film

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We’ve written about our work at Participle to develop LOOPS on this blog before. Now for the first time you can see the prototype solution on film.

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LOOPS was designed as an alternative to universal youth services. It aimed to develop young people and their communities through shared and surprising experiences. We, the young people and their parents all saw it as a more developmental alternative to bringing young people together to play pool and hang out at youth-only clubs.

We had great fun working with young people in Brighton and Croydon to co-design and prototype LOOPS and we were proud of what we did – but the funders decided not to invest in taking it to the next stage. Taken to it’s conclusion embracing LOOPS would mean them decommissioning centre based youth services and investing in an entirely new kind of ‘youth worker’. It was too radical.

When we developed LOOPS outcomes for young people in the UK were amongst the worse in the West. They still are. Following the English riots earlier this year the imperative to explore new approaches to youth development in the UK are clear. We wish Participle best of luck in their application to NESTA’s ‘Innovation in Giving fund’ to get LOOPS moving and more young people in the UK thriving.

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