The Big Conversation is our innovative, appreciative inquiry into what our young people are thinking and feeling in the post covid world. Read and watch how challenging it was to find, listen and talk to 12% of the 18 to 21 year olds living in Wrexham in 2023. And find out what they told us about their aspirations, their fears for the future, and the real insights into a cohort of young people adversely affected by the pandemic.
The inquiry also heard from 105 employers across Wrexham and heard first hand the challenges of recruiting and retaining young people in their workplaces. And more importantly how we think we can help them support our young people with an innovative approach into employment.
Please download our WeMindTheGap – findings and response and Employers’ research report, and Big Conversation – young persons full research report and supporting Research findings presentation here.
Listen to our CEO Ali Wheeler as she offers an overview of the Big Conversation research findings and introduces the guest speakers at our launch event.
Please be curious and watch the individual videos below and put yourself forward to be part of the collective to change the lives of 1000 young people in Wrexham in 1000 days.
Welcomes over 50 stakeholders to the Big Conversation findings launch event. She explains how the world has changed over the last 4 years and the Big Conversation has helped us reach and speak to young people.
Spoke to 12% of young people in Wrexham using various research methods and developed personas which were then applied to a Com-B behaviour change model.
Shares her reflections on the Big Conversation research and how we need to keep working together to make the world a nicer place.
Spoke to over 100 employers in Wrexham and shares her findings on how we can bridge the gap between employers and young people.
Ed is one of our valued Employer Partners and shares the challenges faced by employers and young people, and the importance of working with WeMindTheGap.
Diane heads up our impact and evaluation work and has spent time looking outside of Wrexham to see what the rest of the UK is experiencing. Diane shares what makes Wrexham so unique.
Explains how WeMindTheGap is going to respond, adapt, change and build new programmes of support for young people. Ali emphasised that we can't do it alone, and calls upon everyone watching these videos to support the Big Conversation.
Shares how the research report demonstrates that the conversation was needed, and the conclusions identify further challenges that now require new ways of working.
Thank you for taking the time to watch, read and consider the Big Conversation findings and our response to it.
FOR EVERY PROGRAMME OF 10 GAPPIES
80%
graduate the programme
8
graduates are employed for six months
45
work placements completed with our employer partners
WELLBEING
67%
graduates report improved mental health
100%
graduates report they now feel more in control of their life
86%
graduates report improved confidence
AFTER THE PROGRAMME
60%
graduates find employment
32%
graduates go onto Further or Higher Education
95%
graduates achieve new qualifications
89%
graduates have improved mental health
91%
graduates feel they have new choices
*on average
Source: Hatch Regeneris analysis of WMTG data. Note all annual data adjusted to 2019/20 prices.
This information is correct as of July 2020.
WITHIN 1 YEAR OF GRADUATION
Social impact of
£550,000
per cohort of ten young people
Public cost saving of
£190,000
per cohort of ten young people
This information is correct as of July 2020.
Here's what some of our gappies have to say about how WeMindTheGap helped them to transform their lives.
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