The Canongate Youth Project (CYP) is dedicated to providing a wide range of relevant services to all young people who are the users of the Project.

This will be achieved by:

1. The provision of opportunities in formal and informal education, leisure and recreation and personal development.

2. The development of opportunities through youth training, the provision of youth work programmes, school based support work, individual support work and any other relevant programmes.

3. The offer of appropriate support where young people are experiencing problems over and above those normally associated with growing up.

4. Acting as an advocate of young people on a range of local, national and international issues.

5. The empowerment of young people through educational opportunities in order that they themselves can act and lobby in the best interests of all of their peers. The Project will also develop it’s working links with the range of organisations concerned with young people in order to improve the range and relevance of services offered by these organisations.

6. The creation of opportunities for appropriate people of all ages and abilities to take part in the life of the Project as volunteers, secure in the knowledge that they can operate at a challenging level with all of the required support and training arrangements.

7. The creation and implementation of best practice guide-lines in all aspects of our work with young people, (for example, child protection, confidentiality, and equal opportunities).

8. The creation and implementation of best practice guide-lines in all aspects of the Project’s responsibilities as employers (for example, equal opportunities, personnel, staff development, financial management and governance).