Slides from the presentations at launch of the 80by18 project @ M-Shed, Bristol, 25th Nov 2013

1. 80by18
The story so far
#80by18

2. What’s the big idea?
• Put simply, 80by18 is a list, written by the
people of Bristol, of 80 things that young
people might do in the city before they’re 18
to help them thrive and survive in a changing
world.

3. What isn’t it?
• 80by18 isn’t a school curriculum. It isn’t a new
qualification. It isn’t an obligation. It isn’t a set of
‘learning outcomes’. It isn’t a new council strategy. It
isn’t a list of tourist attractions.
• It’s a list of 80 things to do in Bristol before you’re 18
and the resources, places and people who can help
young people to do them.
• More than anything - it’s a set of prompts for the
imagination. It’s a challenge. It’s an adventure offered
by the city.

4. 80by18 Aims
• Uncover and make visible the wide range of
experiences in the city that might help young
people to survive and thrive whatever the future
may bring
• Encourage young people to try out these
experiences and to work out ways of enabling
them to do so.
• Make a case for the importance of protecting and
promoting these experiences for young people

5. Why does it matter?
• School curriculum being restricted
• Uncertain futures bringing environmental,
economic, demographic, technological
changes
• Schools can’t and shouldn’t do everything
• It takes a city to raise a child

6. What sorts of things were we
looking for?
Drawing on
Bristol’s
Resources
The 80 by 18
Sweet Spot
Future
Facing/
Experiences that
matter
Encourage,
challenge and
excite young
people

7. How’s the list been created?
• Group of First Partners helped to shape the idea
– Lighting up Learning, ASDAN, the Cabot Institute, Windmill Hill City
Farm, University of Bristol, Watershed, MShed, Ablaze, UWE and
MyFutureMyChoice
• Workshops with young people in schools across Bristol.
• Over 80 different organisations have been involved in meetings
Feb/ March/ June this year – to suggest ideas and to start to get
people involved
• Bristol Evening Post, Local radio stations and Points West as well as
open call on the website and visits by researchers to high streets
across the city.
• Over 600 ideas suggested
• Ideas clustered by volunteers from city organisations, shortlisted
and prioritised with young people.
• To our final list…

8. 80by18
So – what’s on the list?

9. 8 challenge areas
• City as Playground
– Reclaim the city as a site for play
• Do It Ourselves
– Making, growing, creating
• Change the World
– Campaigning, rights, democracy
• Slow Down
– Take a different view of the world
• Take a Risk
– Explore something different – food, religion,
spaces
• Survive and Thrive
– Environment, resilience, personal development
• Back to the Future
– Learn from your history
• Random
– From Zombie Walks to Artists

15. Real connections to Bristol resources
• Don’t have the resources to fix a bike? Bike
Project has links and advice and suggestions.
• Want to do something more once you’ve made
your film? The BBC will offer a masterclass for the
first 50 to upload an 80by18 film.
• Want to get better at campaigning? Oxfam will
run training for those who get over 200
signatures…
• And more…

16. Resources

18. 80by18
Our collaborators

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Steve Sayers, Windmill Hill City Farm
Mark Jacobs, BBC
Brenda Massey, City Council
Tim Corum, Bristol Museums and Galleries

20. 80by18
Next Steps

21. Young people’s energy & ideas, so far
and in the future
• What we’ve done so far
• What young people have said
• Next steps & aspirations

22. 500 young people involved in the
generation of ideas
Co-research and
Workshops
Peer research and street
fieldwork

23. Workshops in primary school classes
and youth centres

24. Young people’s out of school lives
• Already busy, rich and diverse in activity
• Some self-organised, some formally organised
• Barriers to new activities:
– Knowing about them
– travel, time, cost
– competing demands in families

25. Hopes
Worries
Activities to help

26. Worries for the future

27. Envision co-researchers survey
• “Encouraging out of school activities” as social
action project
• Web survey of peers
• Transport biggest barrier to teenagers’ city
mobility and accessibility of Bristol resources
• Petition lobbying BCC and First Group to
review bus fares for under 18s

29. Engaging with young people in the
pilot year
• ‘First testers’: schools and groups who
participated in research
• Co-researchers from South Bristol secondary
schools

30. Co-Researchers
• Young People learning research skills
• Own projects, researching themselves and peers
trying out the experiences
– What difference does following the list make to their
use of city resources, mobility, and sense of ‘rights to
the city’?
– What changes when they begin asking questions of
and seeking support from organisations and
institutions who can facilitate 80by18 experiences?
• Come and present findings at University of Bristol

31. Going wider
• Snowball effect
(schools, families, communities, any
organisations working with young people)
• Aim to make young people’s
stories, experiences, and “results” of 80by18
activity visible via website and social media
• Develop and grow the resources & network –
mapping where, how, why...and who can help.

32. Next Steps: Your Role…?
• Help us to spread the word
– Posters, twitter #80by18
• Help us develop the idea
– Have a look at the list, try it out, give us feedback, tell us
what you love/hate
• Improve the ‘offer’
– Can you help young people to meet the challenge with
activities or support? (contact the team)
– Can you promise to offer welcome, support and advice to
young people taking up the challenge? (pick up a sticker)
• Contact the project team on educ80by18@bristol.ac.uk

33. 80by18
And finally..

34. Can you suggest number 80?
We’ve left one space for something missing
What do you think should be on the list?
Ideas can be sent in on the website… via the
project team… or via email

35. 80by18
Thank you

36. Thank you to…
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The young people of Victoria Park primary, Summerhill primary, Begbrook
primary, St Mary Redcliffe and Temple, Merchants Academy, Brislington
Enterprise College, Fairfield High School, Oasis Academy John Williams,
Bedminster Down School, Envision, South Bristol Youth Consortium
Our first partners UWE, Watershed, Mshed, Ablaze, Lighting up Learning,
MyFutureMyChoice, ASDAN,Windmill Hill City Farm for helping get started
Clara Lemon and Dan Tagg for the website
Ben Carruthers for 80by18 design and branding
Matt Moutos & Lizzie Packham for getting out across the city and eliciting
ideas and gathering all the information
Paul Strauss & Teresa Nurser – the core team at Uni of Bristol; Lindsey Horner
& Mary O’Connell for their work on the website and this event
AHRC for funding the fellowship that makes this possible
All of the people and organisations of the city who have enthusiastically
contributed their time and ideas

37. 80by18