what we do
Detached Work
Detached Sessions
Community is at the heart of what we do at N-Gage. We love to see young people engaging with others in their neighbourhoods and bringing positive change in all areas across the city. As well as our centre-based work, we also deliver detached youth work.
Our detached work involves engaging young people in their own communities rather than from a central location. This allows us to reach young people where they are, engaging young people who may not have the opportunity to use our other services, while building relationships within communities.
We also have a mobile youth van that travels around various communities across South Manchester and Wythenshawe. The van is equipped with a wide variety of resources designed to help young people engage in positive activities and further fulfil their needs.
We also work in parks where we engage young people in physical activities such as sport and other team games. Throughout all of our sessions young people are able to access trained youth workers who can provide support, advice and guidance, offering young people an alternative to getting involved in anti-social activities.
THE N-GAGE VAN
For a number of years N-Gage has run youth vehicles, ranging from a truck, a bus and now a van. They are purpose built and designed to enable us to work in communities with little or no youth provision, equipped with gaming gear, music equipment, laptops and iPads. It is somewhere for young people to sit and chat, and by being fully mobile it enables us to work in multiple locations on different nights and is a highly visible advert for our work. Incredibly popular with the young people we see, the van plays a huge role in helping reduce anti-social behaviour.
A feature of our model for this type of work is to aim for the same location and same team each week so young people know we are coming and know who will be there. This helps to develop trust and build relationships and we know this has the biggest impact.
We are happy to take bookings for this vehicle, having used it previously at family fundays, festivals and birthdays. For more information, please contact us to discuss your needs.