Who are NYPS?

We have been active as a group since the 31st of May 2017. We are a group of young people from different countries aged 16-25+. Before covid, we met every Tuesday early evening in Glasgow Clyde College (Anniesland campus) where we discussed ideas on how to develop ourselves and help newly arrived young people in Scotland.

The group was initially partnered with Glasgow Social Work Department, YPeople, and Glasgow Clyde College where we all at some time studied English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). Together with support from these partners, this group has come together to create a peer-to-peer mentoring network which supports other young people who find themselves arriving alone in Glasgow and are unable to speak the language.

We have been involved in different competitions including poster making where we won over £2,000 from the Youth Bank which we invested in making a magazine (Scotland Our New Home) and running an event that hosted over 100 people in Kinning Park Complex. Here we expanded our group by inviting other young people to join us.

We have worked closely with different organisations and we have been awarded both Saltire Awards and Participatory Democracy Awards. We have produced various podcasts about a number of different subjects such as How to sleep better, How to deal with living in a new place. All of these are done in the 15 languages the group speak.

Working alongside Showman Media we were successful in applying for funding from Creative Scotland which we used to produce educational films that featured group members. The films look at different obstacles members have faced and how they have begun to overcome them. We hope that providing this information would be beneficial to other newly arrived young people in Scotland.NYPS film project

We have worked closely with different organisations, and we have been awarded both Saltire Awards and Participatory Democracy Awards. We have produced various podcasts about a number of different subjects such as How to sleep better, How to deal with living in a new place. All of these are done in the 9 languages the group speak.

In 2019 we worked together on raising more awareness about the mental health problems young asylum seekers face, and we hosted a workshop to which we invited a variety of professionals who work with them.