Annual report 17

Projects
Identity Project
9
Prevention
of Extremism
We were grateful to have been funded to continue
our work with young people at risk of far-right and
islamist extremism by Swansea City Council via the
Swansea Change Fund.
This work included one-to-one support for four young
people at risk of far-right extremism, 4 young people
at risk of Islamist extremism. We also delivered 9 oneday
group interventions to a total of 84 NEET young
increasing their resilience to far-right extremism.
Agencies receiving this intervention have included:
YMCA Swansea, Rathbone Swansea, A4E, Youth
Offending Service ISS Centre, Action for Children Little
Steps Big Steps Project. We also delivered 13 group
workshops to 91 Muslim young people attending
EYST on the topic of grooming, ISIS and radicalisation,
increasing their understanding of and resilience to this
risk. During the year we also delivered 49 challenging
racism awareness workshops to a total of 1180 school
children from 7 secondary schools across Swansea.
The Identity Project is a Welsh Government funded
project which seeks to help and support young people
across Wales with a range of protected characteristics.
In September 2015, EYST joined this partnership project
led by Swansea YMCA and working in partnership with
NWREN. EYST’s work under this programme is based
in Cardiff, Wales, based in Cardiff YMCA’s Plasnewydd
Centre, offering youth club sessoins, mentoring, oneone-one
work, ESOL classes and homework club. We
have started working in partnership with a range of
organisations including Grassroots, Fitzalan School,
Oasis and Trinity Centre and look forward to continuing
this work during 2016-17.
That terrorists are NOT Muslims as they claim to be”
Project participant
www.eyst.org.uk