Why become a youth partner
When you join O2 Think Big, you'll be helping your young people to take a leading role in their local community. You'll become part of a national movement that spreads the word about young people's achievements.
Here's what you'll get:
- An allocation of guaranteed project awards for your young people's projects
- The O2 Think Big Quality Mark certificate
- Dedicated support from a member of staff from the Think Big Team
- Access to teams of O2 volunteers to help your organisation
- Listing on the O2 Think Big website as one of our great youth partners
- The opportunity to network with other youth partners
- Promotional materials for O2 Think Big
- Opportunities to win O2 phones, broadband, tickets for O2 events and other goodies
- Use of the O2 Think Big Quality Mark branding, and guidance to help you use it
What a Youth Partner can expect
We’ll work hard to support the Youth Partner and develop the relationship they have with the O2 Think Big programme and other youth partners. We’ll aim to ensure that the processes work and are efficient to make engagement in the programme a positive experience.
The aim is to have:
- Prompt turnaround for project approvals
- Prompt turnaround for the money cards, welcome packs and other incentives
- Clear and friendly communication to young people, support workers and Youth Partner
- Queries dealt with promptly
- Youth Partners feeling like they are a part of a network, encouraged to information share and celebrate successes through meetings, events and regular newsletters
- Sufficient notice for any requests that are made to them for attendance or contribution to the programme or network
- Updates of their projects
- Annual visits from O2 Think Big team, including attending celebrations