Community Campus Portal

The Community Campus Portal provides a unique set of tools to plan, prepare and deliver youth and community projects and programmes and to map, track and measure the outputs and outcomes.

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Inspiration

The Youth Charter Community Campus has been developed as a result of the agency’s 28 years of work in communities, urban, suburban and rural, locally, nationally and internationally.

As part of the bidding, hosting and legacy of major games, the Community Campus provides a coordinated and holistic approach in the development, delivery and sustainability of young people and communities within the regeneration and renewal strategies of public, private and third sector agencies.

What it does

The Community Campus is a unique model providing an opportunity to bring together policy, delivery and impact in the current sports for development and peace movement.

A Community Campus is made up of hub facilities, such as, schools, community centres, youth clubs, sports centres, further and higher education institutions or any facility delivering a youth cultural engagement provision. Each facility is quality assured in the delivery of the Social Coach Leadership Programme and the Youthwise offer.

The Youth Charter’s Community Campus Digital Portal - Project Management Platform (Community Campus Portal) provides Social Coaches with a toolkit to support the planning and preparation, delivery and mapping, tracking and measuring of Youthwise Activities.

How we built it

The Community Campus Portal was first piloted between 2016 and 2019. We then upgraded the platform in 2020/21 using the Wix Website Building Platform and Google GSuite. This has been part of Digital Transformation which has included the following websites and portals: www.youthcharter.org www.communitycampus-youthcharter.org www.youthwise-youthcharter.org www.archive-youthcharter.org

Challenges we ran into

The Youth Charter is a charity with limited resources, but we have a dedicated team of volunteers. The Youth Charter has not employed any professional website developers, which has presented challenges in developing the functionality of the Community Campus Portal. Our team of volunteers have overcome many of these challenges but there is always room for improvement.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The Youth Charter is a 28 Year Games Legacy of Manchester’s bid for the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the hosting of the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games that has inspired a global Sport for Development and Peace movement/sector.

The Youth Charter is a UK registered charity and UN accredited non-governmental organisation that has campaigned and promoted the role and value of sport, art, culture and digital technology in the lives of disaffected young people from disadvantaged communities nationally and internationally. The Youth Charter has a proven track record in the creation and delivery of social and human development programmes with the overall aim of providing young people with an opportunity to develop in life.

Please see link to the Youth Charter Digital Archive for more detail on our work and achievements: https://www.archive-youthcharter.org

What we learned

Through its 28 years of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) work, the Youth Charter has identified a Fragmented Approach to SDP projects and programmes, which do not follow a cohesive, coherent and integrated approach, which is supported by SDP literature (Lindsey, Chapman and Dudfield, 2020; Lindsey and Darby, 2019; Chen, 2018; Scheerder 2018; Sugden, 2018). Since the early 1990s there has been a proliferation of SDP organisations, projects and programmes (Giulanotti, 2012). For example: 28 UN System Agencies delivering SDP projects and programmes (UNOSDP, 2018); the IOC Beyond the Games programme; the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Youth SDP Working Group; over 100 professional soccer club Foundations in England have a combined turnover of over £100m (Youth Charter, 2017); and 3,138 SDP organisations registered on five SDP websites (Svensson and Woods, 2017).

The Youth Charter's Community Campus Portal provides a Project Management Platform for the planning, delivery and mapping, tacking and measuring of SDP projects and programmes which address the limitations of, and recommendations for, SDP including: ‘theory of change’ and ‘theory of action’ to project and programme planning, delivery and evaluation (Chen, 2018); ‘only an approach where sport is combined with non-sporting components can lead to optimal results’ (Scheerder, 2018); Strategic Sport for Development Leverage – Building on Partnerships to Sustain and Grow Programs (Schulenkorf, 2018). The Social Impact Outcomes of the Community Campus Model and the Legacy Cultural Framework are measured against five key legacy development goals and two underpinning principles, which are all linked directly to the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

What's next for Community Campus Portal

The Youth Charter’s ongoing Games Legacy work is represented in our National and Global Call 2 Actions which aims to provide a #LegacyOpportunity4All. The National Call 2 Action aims to deliver 10 Community Campuses and train 10,000 Social Coaches to work with 1million Young People across the UK (https://www.youthcharter.org/nationalcall2action). Whilst our Global Call 2 Action aims to deliver 50 Community Campuses and train 50,000 Social Coaches to work with 5million Young People around the World (https://www.youthcharter.org/globalcall2action).

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