"Bringing Communities Together Through Young People"
What are we
Asian Youth Alliance (AYA) is a not-for-profit community organisation based in London which specialises in engaging young people and hard to reach communities. We are a multi-ethnic, multi-faith organisation which develops and delivers ethnic-specific and culturally sensitive projects for children, young people and young adults. We work with people from various ethnic backgrounds, not only Asian, including, African, Middle Eastern, Caribbean and European. We actively target people from different faith groups, including Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and Christians.
AYA was legally constituted in 2005 with these objects:
AYA was legally constituted in 2005 with these objects:
- to enable young people under the age of 30, particularly those of Asian descent to fully participate in society and realise their potential.
- to help young Asians to grow into healthy, knowledgeable and confident members of society and to develop their physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual and psychological well-being so they grow to maturity as individuals and members of society who are aware of the culture and heritage, both in the UK and World-wide.
- to provide advice, skills, experiences, support and other assistance to young Asians who are in need by reason of their social or economic circumstances.
- to advance the education and training of young Asians particularly so as to enable them to take full and active roles in the wider community.
- to promote the need of and advocate for equality in service provision for young Asians and promote quality and good practise in youth provision.