Meet The Ambassadors
YOUTH AMBASSADORS
FYA Ambassdors are at the forefront of FYA, representing members and making decisions across the whole organisation. The FYA Youth Ambassador Programme directly involves and empowers young people in the running of the organisation by training a team of alumni young people to represent the voices of young people within FYA projects and be involved in organisational decisions.
The ambassadors normally meet monthly. They steer the organisation alongside our Trustee board, doing their own research and consultation activities and events to find out what young people in Camden are passionate about, conducting peer reviews with project participants to ensure our work is high standard and relevant, and supporting our programmes as young leaders and acting as peer support for new members.
The project was launched in February 2017 and you can see pictures from our ambassador teams below since.
Current Ambassadors Oct 2020-Oct 2021
Eniola – Co-Chair 
Anisah – Co-Chair 
Neda – Minute Taker 
Khalid – Treasurer & Fundraising 
Fahim – Treasurer & Fundraising
Warren Centre
Mathura – Treasurer & Fundraising 
Jai – Communications & Promotion 
Grace – Communications & Promotion 
Emilia – Communications & Promotion 
Hana – Engagement and Participation – Equality & Diversity 
Ose – Engagement & Participation (Environmental Impact) 
Gloria – Community Engagement 
Pia – Community Engagement 
Tomisin – Health and Wellbeing 
Nana – Health and Wellbeing
What our Ambassadors have been up to 2020-2021
- The team have met monthly since their training in August – supporting the steering of the organisation into recovery. The Co-chairs have also attended trustee meetings, and representatives for Comms and fundraising have sat on those subgroups with trustees.
- We are going to be working with staff and trustees on the new strategy for the organisation between May and September.
- Health and Wellbeing Officers Tomisin and Nana wrote a blog that has been featured by Camden Healthwatch! https://www.healthwatchcamden.co.uk/blog/2021/04/08/young-people-are-key-community-influencers-covid-19-vaccine
- Co-chair Anisah spoke at Camden New Journal’s recent livestreamed event about vaccine hesitancy related to young people.
- Khalid, Mathura and Fahim have completed their first funding applications – fingers crossed!
- Emilia and Grace have set priorities for the comms team regarding annual awareness days we want to promote
- Pia and Gloria are working on an employability page for the website to support more young people to get support and inspire potential career pathways from volunteering!
- Ose and Hana have led warm up activities for the monthly meetings and are planning a community clean up and fun day together with some of the Ambassadors to take place on 3rd of June!
If you would like to find out more about our Youth Ambassadors, or have an opportunity that they might be interested in, please contact:
Ellie Rudd, Youth Leadership Manager – ellie.rudd@fya.org.uk or 07923849277
Previous Ambassadors
