Working with young people to develop intergenerational projects

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Working with young people to develop
intergenerational projects

• Simon Billenness

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Programme

• What is intergenerational practice?
• Why intergenerational?
• How we might develop intergenerational practice?

• Outcomes of intergenerational practice
• Bucks Case study
• Guidance for practice
• Challenges of intergenerational practice

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Definition of intergenerational practice

• Intergenerational practice aims to bring people
  together in purposeful, mutually beneficial
  activities which promote greater understanding
  and respect between generations
  and contributes to building more cohesive
  communities.  Intergenerational practice is
  inclusive, building on the positive resources
  that the young and old have to offer each other
  and those around them.
• Beth Johnson Foundation

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Challenging the stereotypes
Bangalore boy Suhas Gopinath launched Globals Inc
at 14. Today, his firm is a 60-member strong with
all of them aged 17 to 22 years

• Jim Martin is 65. He is, to his knowledge,
  Western North Carolina's oldest skateboarder. He
  has skated for a little over 20 years -- he
  started when he was 43, and is still learning
  ("upscaling," he calls it).

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Why intergenerational work?
Diversity

• Economy

Health
Community