Meet the Jamie’s Farm Youth Champions

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Adele

Hello, my name’s Adele, I’m from Nuneaton, a town near Coventry. I wanted to be a Jamie’s Farm Youth Champion to help change and improve the life of young people and for our voices to be heard, used and acted upon as we are the voice of the future.

If I was Prime Minister, I would help encourage the change of the education sector for young people to be heard and to be taught life skills of how to live, how to pay bills, how to be a adult in this day and age, how to feel you can be yourself with no repercussions, to live and fulfil your dreams as life is for living, not for surviving. I think that’s what people tend to forget nowadays.

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Johnbosco

Hello there, my name is Johnbosco and I’m 21 years old. I joined the Jamie’s Farm Youth Champions to help improve their goals and vision in interacting with younger people, making the lives of younger people more positive.

If I were to a Prime Minister today, I will seriously work on housing.

I feel like most young people are beginning to realise that the housing market is a bit too harsh on them and that is what I will be looking into and working with different advisors and anybody who could help in order to get the housing market favourable to young people.

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Jack

Hi, I’m Jack, I’m 23 from Bath and what made me want to be a Youth Champion was the collection of young people that all experienced Jamie’s Farm, all know the value of it, all truly benefit from it, and together we can share our experiences, share ideas and get a deeper understanding.

And if I was Prime Minister, what I would change to help young people would be an education system that doesn’t see you as a number, tries to prepare you for the current time, give you the tools for 2024, teaches you about financial management, teaches you about how to manage the household for the future, preparing you for responsibility, but also seeing responsibility as an adventure and and not seeing you as a number, seeing you as a special, unique individual.

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Kotryna

Hi, my name is Kotryna, I’m 17 years old and I live in London.

I wanted to become a youth champion because it allows me to not only share my own personal experience, but to also listen and understand other’s experiences which may differ significantly from my own.

It also has a direct impact on young people, whether that’s in the form of making contributions to possible struggles that young people may face in society, in places such as education or just society generally.

If I was Prime Minister, one thing I would do to improve the lives of young people is probably put in place more early interventions, whether that’s in the form of mentoring or creating more youth clubs or just giving young people a place where they can express themselves, which would be very separate from education where young people usually struggle. They can’t act like themselves. So just giving young people a place or a person where they can feel themselves is just very important.

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Riley

Hi there I’m Riley, I’m 18 years old and I’m a Jamie’s Farm Youth Champion. I first went to Jamie’s Farm when I was about 14 and I went with the virtual school in a small group.

Honestly all I can say is amazing things I never thought I would have enjoyed something more. Jamie’s Farm made me feel welcomed, worthy and wanted it showed me that I could do well when put into the right environment and that was true as I become so much more confident and I learnt everyone makes mistakes and you can change that. And now I’m lucky enough to be working on an apprenticeship course at Jamie’s Farm Lewes and I love it and now I get to give back to the young people we have each week and give them a chance to experience and get the best out of it just as I did.

And this is my reasoning for becoming a youth champion as I want to be able to make a change and spread my experience to prove more young people can get this out of Jamie’s farm and more outside provisions.

If I could change anything for young people, I would make more outside education so more young people get the chance to thrive and achieve in the setting that can help a lot of young people and there are not enough experiences or chances for enough young people get this chance I had. If I was prime minister for the day I would love to get to know their idea of education and show them how all young people work different and to understand different types of education. Thank you for staying and reading this I appreciate it

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Georgie

Hi, my name is Georgie, I’m from London and am Co-Chairperson of the Youth Champions group.

I wanted to join the Youth Champions because the charity of Jamie’s Farm helped me a lot when I was younger. In a lot of ways that ain’t as obvious as some other charities might be, and I just wanted to give back to the community in some sort of regard.

If I was Prime Minister for the day, how I would help young people would probably be by funding the education system more.

Working in education now, I feel like it’s extremely underfunded in certain aspects, overfunded in other aspects, but I’d just love to create an environment that breeds creativity as opposed to conformity.

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Halkawt

Hi everyone, I’m Halkawt, I’m 17, I’m from Brighton.

I went to Jamie’s Farm. I had great time I was so enjoying it, relaxing, feeling happy. We had cooking together as a group, played games, looked after animals, walking countryside. Beautiful view. When I look at view, I feel so happy, relaxing my heart.

If I was Prime Minister I want to change it. I will like to more support young people in education.

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Amani

Amani, 17, West London

I wanted to become a Jamie’s Farm Youth Champion because it offered a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on young people’s lives. Being a Jamie’s Farm Youth Champion provided a chance to play a pivotal role in transforming lives through the power of nature and community. I’m passionate about fostering a sense of community and connection, and this role offers an opportunity to inspire change and make a lasting difference in the journeys of other young people. Plus, being part of a team dedicated to uplifting youth is incredible rewarding and aligns with my own values.

If I was PM for a day, I would advocate for policies that create affordable housing options for young people, helping them achieve independence without so much financial strain. I would increase funding for mental health resources in schools and communities, ensuring that young people have access to counselling and support. I would also implement initiatives to create job opportunities and internships specifically for young people, making it easier for them to enter the workforce.

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Caitlin

Hi, it’s Caitlin here! I’m 18 years old and currently living in Great Yarmouth.

The reason I signed up for the James Farm Youth Champions this year is that I want to make sure that all young people’s voices are heard, no matter who they are.

If I was Prime Minister for the day, then I would like to make sure that all people have the chance to experience the same experiences, regardless of their ages, their abilities of who they are.

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Leonie

Hi, my name is Leonie, I am 17 years old and I live in South Yorkshire.

I wanted to be a youth champion because I wanted to be able to be more involved in representing the younger generation.

I wanted to be able to contribute more to society and its changes and I also think it helps my confidence a lot more and helps me believe in myself as well.

If I was Prime Minister, I would increase the amount of youth centres because I believe that youth centres help kids and teenagers make more friends outside of school or college and I also believe that it helps them be more involved in society.

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Iram

Hi, my name is Iram, I’m 17 years old and I’m from London Hackney. I’m also Co-Chairperson of the youth champions.

The reason why I wanted to participate in this programme as a young adult myself, is because I didn’t realise how important it was for my voice to be heard.

I want to show young adults just like myself the importance behind their voice being heard and how it changes and impacts their lives.

If I was Prime Minister for the day, I personally would also make it mandatory in primary and secondary schools to start testing children for learning disabilities as like dyslexia. Because kids even in college, they don’t find out they have dyslexia or ADHD or OCD and it’s just they’ve been struggling their whole life.

So if it was possible to be Prime Minister for the day and get that sorted so kids nowadays can work through school and make progress and proceed with the support that is needed.