Young Ideas. Real Opportunities. Real Impact.
Our Young Leaders Network gives young people a real platform to create, plan and deliver their own ideas to make a difference in their community.
From Malakai designing the Young Leaders logo to Hareem creating the Booktopia project, everything starts with our young people. We give them the space, support and responsibility to turn ideas into action while developing confidence, leadership and valuable skills along the way.
Their Ideas. Their Projects.
Booktopia — A Young Leader Idea Brought to Life
was inspired to create a mobile Booktopia due to a few reasons:
- Liking a book and wanting to share it with other people in the community
- Giving secondhand books a new lease of life and reducing waste
- Bringing books to people because libraries and bookstores may not be
accessible - I want to encourage children to read more often.
I hope that the Booktopia will help children and families connect over literature by creating small moments where they are discovering new stories, and spend more time talking about them and creating memories with one another, I love it when my mum reads to me! I would love to share that.
Books are important to me because I believe that they expand your vocabulary as well as aid your learning and growth. Reading also helps to develop your imagination and can help you get a break from everyday life.
A mobile library helps the community by making books more accessible, encourages reading, supporting education and creating opportunities for children to connect and learn together.I hope my Booktopia will bring knowledge and inspiration to children of all ages while giving books a second chance.
I hope that Booktopia will build a stronger reading culture and in the future I hope that we can expand our Booktopia library with more secondhand books and help the environment and hopefully visit more locations with our mobile Booktopia so more people are able to access all our wonderful book.
Empowering Young voices to shape Better Active Oldham
The Young Leaders Network gives young people a platform to share their ideas, influence decisions, and help shape the future of Better Active Oldham. We believe young people should be at the heart of everything we do — from planning new activities to making sure our projects reflect what matters most to them. This network ensures their voices are heard, valued, and acted upon.
Meet Our Young Leaders
Daud
Hareem
Hareem
"I would like to be a part of the young leaders because it can help me build on my communication skills, it will also allow me to make a difference to the the young people in the community while working with other like minded young peopl"
Hareem
Hareem
Hareem
"I would like to be a part of the young leaders network because it would help grow my confidence and help me acquire life skills such as communication and teamwork as well as make a difference and create positive change"
Asiya
Hareem
Asiya
"I would like to be part of young leader network because i would like to meet new people and like to be part of the of the environment with the new people, that i haven’t met .I would try hard to achieve my target and like i said before i would love to be part of young leader networke"
Aariz
Malakai
Asiya
“I like to be a leader of different activities.”
Malakai
Malakai
Malakai
"I want to be a young leader because I want to help make decisions for the sessions and help with ideas for events, sessions, parties and trips"
Haris
Malakai
Malakai
“I enjoy helping friends and sharing my ideas with them.”
Mariyam
Mariyam
Mariyam
I want to be one so that we can organise things for children that are being homeschooled. They’ll be having fun as-well as learning with the activities we will be doing"