Castlemilk Youth Complex

Castlemilk Youth Complex is Scotland's foremost independent youth work and arts organisation. It operates informal learning youth-work/youth-arts programmes with excluded young people from the South East of Glasgow. The charity is managed by the young people using its state of the art facilities, including, a fully equipped 80-seat theatre, recording studio, Internet cafe, dance studio, therapy facilities and visual arts media.

Headline Aim - "Creating a better future by inspiring young people to recognise, raise and achieve their aspirations."

To achieve our headline aim we must realize the following key objectives

• Build young people's self esteem and confidence.
• Develop young people’s ability to manage personal and social relationships.
• Create learning opportunities for young people to allow them to develop new skills.
• Encourage positive group atmospheres.
• Build the capacity of young people to consider risk, make reasoned decisions and take control.
• Help young people to develop a 'world view' which widens horizons, raises aspirations and invites social commitment.
The project is targeted at young people in Castlemilk aged 12-25. Castlemilk has a large high school age population and an above average population aged 15 and under, poverty is the norm for these young people as Castlemilk suffers considerable multiple deprivations