‘To make a positive contribution to the lives of young people by increasing their life chances and helping their transition from youth to adulthood’

We aim to achieve this by enabling young people to recognize and fulfil their potential through developing skills, confidence and aspirations. Hamara Youth Team are committed to providing quality support, guidance and an accessible friendly service.

Our projects include:

• Community Cohesion
               
• Connexions
• The Engage Project
                   
• Leeds Muslim Youth Forum
• Sports Relief
                   
• Supplementary School
• Young People’s Fund
• Youth Team Activities

Hamara are starting a new project called Leeds Muslim Womens Forum, this is a unique volunteering opportunity and will give the muslim women of Leeds a platform to raise their concerns and issues. If this is something you are interested in then please give Hamara a call.

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Hamara Supplementary School aims to raise the standard of education in the community by creating a progressive, caring and high quality-learning environment for all its students. The school is open to both genders aged between 5 & 11

BACKGROUND TO HSS

Hamara Supplementary School is a voluntary organisation designed to address the problem of Bangladeshi, Pakistani and other ethnic minority children underachieving in British state schools. It is a supplementary school, which was set up in 1997 as a response to the demands and concerns from parents, academics and community leaders within the South Leeds Community.

In partnership with schools and statutory agencies, members of HSS have exerted considerable effort and commitment (on a voluntary basis) in establishing this organisation. This has resulted in many pupils receiving additional support, extra tuition, mentoring and moral support.

Aims and objectives of the HSS programme

•  To provide additional teaching to ethnic minority children to enable them to perform better in their State schooling.
•  To provide ethnic minority children with support services to help them deal with non-academic problems, which they may meet in their State schools.
•  To provide ethnic minority children with help in subjects, which they need but are not provided in State schools.
•  To provide a means by which teachers and pupils share bilingual rapport to make use of intercultural skills to promote learning.
•  To provide ethnic minority parents with advice and support in their dealings with their children’s state schooling.

The school currently teaches Maths, English and Islamic Studies to children in key stages 1 and 2.  Lessons are delivered by qualified teachers every Saturday morning from 10am to 1pm at the Hamara Centre.  During the school holidays the children of the school have an opportunity to attend the Playscheme.

If you would like to enrol your child at the school or would simply like further information about what we do then please contact the Head Teacher, Ayesha.

The project is aimed at young men and boys from the age of 8 up to the age of 25. The aim is to develop a programme of activities which use sport as an incentive to bring people together and help develop positive relationships, build trust and understanding and reduce the level of tension between disparate communities.

Our latest project is a football tournament known as the HAMARA ALL-STAR LEAGUE this is 7 a side football, under 16’s and openage this event is open to all city wide, it is a matter of first come, first served.

Currently, a number of sessions are provided to schools within the locality during and after school times as well as sessions for the wider community on the weekend. The aim is to try and engage 100 individuals per year in weekly sessions allowing them to increase their capacity in terms of fitness and physical health. These sessions also serve the purpose of a social activity and allow young people from diverse backgrounds to form closer links through their participation in sport.

Through working with these groups we are looking to recruit people for our multicultural football teams. Ages are as follows:

• Junior
• Senior
• Open age
• Females

We have successfully filled up all places for our juniors football team. The team is an under 16’s team with players coming from various parts of Leeds.

Also The annual N-Gage football tournament has proved to be a huge success over the last few years. The last tournament had nearly 200 participants from a total of 28 teams taking part. It proved to be a really good day.
We have been planning this in partnership with local agencies such as Stop hate Uk, Leeds Fed and Nacro just to name a few. in the past the tournaments have been held during Kick it out’s national week’s of action period and supports a strong community cohesion theme.

As well as this through using these events we have identified young people from the community who would like contribute towards helping the community develop as well as themselves as individuals. Some of these young people are doing the Level 1 award in football coaching and will go onto do the level two award in the new year. 

Moreover, the well bowled project aimed at young males who are interested in the sport of cricket has had some success. The project works with youngsters who have a passion for the game and tries to help them by harnessing their skills to allow them to develop as cricketers. We successfully received the Lord Taverner’s Equipment bag in 2007 which, was presented to us by The Yorkshire County Cricket club. The youngsters have also been to see a few of Yorkshires fixtures courtesy of the club providing tickets for development centres all over Leeds. We are looking to further develop the work we are currently doing in the community in regards to cricket. We will hopefully be meeting with a similar project who are from Bradford in the winter to share models of good practice in order to move things forward.

We also have a Boys youth club that runs throughout the year. On a weekly basis we have numbers in the region of 20 boys turn up and use the service. With activities such as pool, table tennis, Fussball, and consoles such as the Wii and the PS3 numbers are consistently high. We have done workshops that touch on subjects such as conflict resolution, community cohesion, racism and drugs leading to some very interesting discussions as a result. The aim for the next year is to apply a little more structure to the programme without compromising with the fun element.

For more information contact Shujaat Riaz - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

The Leeds Muslim Youth Forum (LMYF) came about after acting on the recommendations set out in the Muslim Youth Speak report. The ‘Muslim Youth Speak’ report was published off the back of several consultation events held throughout Leeds post 7/7.

The aims of the forum are:

• Empower the representatives of LMYF to become ambassadors for Muslim youth of Leeds, enabling them to articulate the views of young Muslims on strategic partnerships, policy making forums and decision making arenas resulting in appropriate amendments being made to engage Muslim youth in their provisions.

• LMYF aims to provide support, capacity and resources to its representatives resulting in them being able to carry their own voices forward, lobby as individuals and undertake/feed into projects that are of importance to them.

• LMYF seeks to engage with mainstream partners in the public, private and voluntary sector to promote engagement, improve services, ensure sustainability and facilitate integration of provision that engage Muslim youth.

In an era when there are so many misconceptions about young people in general, we aim to become the leading organisation that supports Muslim youth in Leeds, to express themselves becoming ‘The Voice of Muslim Youth.’  Our dedicated team of young people representatives endeavour to make this forum the number one place for young Muslims to come to in order to express their views, share their skills and knowledge, and highlight issues of concern.

LMYF has organised many events from Community Iftaars to interfaith dialogue sessions with the Christian and Jewish community. We want to add a taste of innovation to our projects so we even organised a pub-style interfaith quiz at Leeds City Art Gallery and have trained young people through an accredited Leadership Course so they may be positive ambassadors for their communities

LMYF are recruiting for representatives if you are interested please do not hesistate to contact Fahad contact details can be found below.