Future
Future began in 2000 by two volunteers as a response to up to 40 young people congregating in the area and causing anti social behaviour.
Today we employ 18 full time and part time staff and cater for a much wider client base. There are over 1500 people registered to Future and over 500 volunteers have worked with Future Radio.
In 2007, the NR5 project, as we were then known, relocated to new a building (the old NELM Neighbourhood Centre in the grounds of the Larkman School) and launched the premises officially in May.
Future aims to:
- Increase the level of skills including basic, life and existing to contribute to all sectors of the local economy, particularly the cultural and media sectors.
- Provide transferable skills for other key sectors of the economy.
- Offer information, advice and guidance through mentoring to young people, their families and to adults.
- Promote access to activities that contribute to increasing economic well-being, life long learning and personal achievement.
- Offer alternative curriculum education inclusion for those at risk of exclusion from high school in the NELM area aged 14-16. (Key Stage 4; KS4)
- Offer a centre for community based activity; delivering multi-media training and ICT facilities which will raise the profile of e-learning, especially amongst those with little or no knowledge of ICT.
- Offer support to the most vulnerable
- Our longer term aim to develop a model for replication for other similar community based provision, creating opportunities for participants from the wider Norfolk area.