Opportunities
Opportunities our Ambassadors have had
Supported young people in charitable endeavours and raised over £10,000 to support chosen local charities.
Created exhibitions with local partners
Young Muslims regularly attend local meetings with MP's, Government Ministers and policy makers.
Supported young people organising interfaith events around Christmas and Eid
Designed and led campaigns exploring Muslim contribution to Leeds.
Supported young people in engagement with different sports such as archery, football, badminton.
Created accredited leadership programmes with modules exploring: politics, social media, public speaking, Prophetic leadership skills. Programmes supported and facilitated by pioneering individuals from each field from around the UK.
Youth Ambassadors
Our Youth Ambassadors represent LMYF at meetings with our strategic partners, policy making forums and decision-making arenas. We provide training, which teaches them the skills of lobbying and campaigning. This helps them grow in confidence, allows them to get their views across, and enables them to influence others to bring about positive change within the community.
They attend monthly meetings where they discuss plans to make sure that the LMYF is represented at upcoming events which meet the goals and aspirations of the organisation. These meetings are also where they plan and agree on the sort of events and activities they would like to put on for their peers and the wider community.
Over the years Youth Ambassadors have represented the LMYF across many diverse platforms including local partnership meetings, city-wide forums and European Union events in Strasbourg. Their creativity in planning and delivering exciting, unique events such as leadership programmes, Heritage projects, faith-led support groups and so much more which is catalogued on our Instagram page
By becoming one of our ambassadors you will represent the young Muslim community, whose opinions, views and ideas are essential for building a cohesive, inclusive society in Leeds. You’ll be involved in organising events with your team, receive training on our leadership course, run media and activity-based projects, and in the process become a confident, upstanding and influential member of your local community.
Our Young People:
- Address and explore solutions to social inequalities
- Aspire to become leaders, thinkers, speakers and visionaries of tomorrow
- Motivate their peers and take on a positive role in the community
- Address issues that impact their peers
- Aim to become the ‘Voice of Muslim Youth.
We want young people who aspire to:
- Want their voice, and the voices of their peers to be heard
- Want to change their community for the better
- Want to influence decisions that affect them and their friends
- Aged between 16 and 25
- Want to listen to and consider different views
- Build on interest in lobbying and campaigning for change
- Want to challenge stereotypical views in a constructive manner.
