What is COG Youth Services Ltd
COG Youth Services Ltd is a volunteer led, Leicester based, 100% profit to cause, social enterprise that supports young people by putting them at the heart of the organisation and providing youth services to schools, colleges and communities
Schools and Colleges
We specialise at supporting schools and colleges across Leicester and Leicestershire. We offer a wide variety of awards, projects, workshops and schemes. Whether your looking youth acheivement awards, projects or schemes, we can support you with them.
Fundraising
We run a number of events each year to help support our community youth projects and volunteering opportunities across Leicester and Leicestershire. From bake sales to nightwalks and mountain climbs to custom tshirts, we could use your help and support.
Our Blogs & Vlogs
Find out more about each of our projects and opportunities through the words of the volunteers and participants themselves. This is also a place where our volunteers can share their thoughts and feelings about some of the important things in their lives.
Volunteering
As a 100% volunteer led organisation, we rely on volunteers to help run our projects. We are also specialists in providing volunteering opportunities for young people aged 13-18, including some you cannot find anywhere else in the country.
Be an Environment Ambassador
We are looking for groups and individuals to help clean up their local communities, improve recycling, bring back green spaces and more. This act will help give your community a sense of pride, support local plants and animals to survive and thrive as well as help us to raise much needed funds in the process. Whether you’re at school, a college, a business or a member of the public, see how you can help and support youth work at the same time.
Basic Expedition Navigation and Campsite Training (BENCT)
School Recycling Ambassadors
Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE)
Our Services
We deliver youth projects to schools and colleges as well as host youth volunteering opportunities and ways for the public to get involved in the communities around Leicester and Leicestershire.
The Blog
Hear from young people
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thank you sooo much for supporting me in the Reading Buddies, I have had a wonderful experience Mandy Cao (16) – Reading Buddy
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Volunteering at COG is great and extremely fun and engaging. COG is a great place to volunteer, a place which I enjoy. Nirmit (14) – Magazine Designer
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I enjoy volunteering for COG as there is a clear vision of encouraging the younger generation to explore and reinvent the image of reading. Zainab (18) – Reading Buddy Leader
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COG gives me the opportunity to give back to the community. It also enables me to develop my entrepreneurial skills. Adna (16) – Fundraising Committee Member