Visit from Bernie Flanagan

The Revolution Crew were also joined by a special guest from City of York Council's Childrens Trust Unit.

Bernie Flanagan is a manager at the Children's Trust Unit and joined the group to hear their ideas and to lend his support to the group's Mediabox Funding bid.

“Every year we have a conference in York called no wrong doors, we bring together lots of people who work with children and young people and talk about various issues. We would love young carers to get involved with our next conference. Having heard you talk about challenging stereotypes and making sure that schools, health visitors and nurses know about the needs of young carers, it’s something they really need to hear. When the message comes from young people like yourselves - you put it so well.”

“If you won the funding and produced a film we would love to share it at the conference.”

Young Carers Voices

The Young Carers Media Box bid successfully made it through to the next stage which is really exciting news. Media Box are keen to know more about the idea and how the Young Carers are involved. Using the laptop the group made a video to explain more to the media box panel which will be used to support the bid...

Creating an Identity Session 2 - Feedback

Tonight the group came together to view the logo options created by Snowglobe Creative. They reviewed their brief then looked at the outputs. There was much discussion on elements that were liked and elements that could be different.



In the end the group settled on a combination of designs.

- The group liked the jugglers hand and the energy ball and would like the two designs to be combined.

- The juggling balls will be replaced by one energy ball which will be floating just above the hand.

- The energy ball will be made from warm and strong colours such as oranges and reds.

- The font will be smaller and be sited underneath the hand and without the tablet background.

- The group would like the font to look more youthful, fun and urban style.

The feedback will now go back to Snowglobe for re-working. We expect the results within the next few weeks.

Watch this space!

SnowGlobe Studio

Gareth from Snowglobe Creative addresses the brief set by the Young Carers Revolution crew. Isolating some ideas and blending others, he turns his professional eye and experience to the job in hand and creates four options for feedback from the group.



The logos are presented in greyscale to make sure they work in this format before the group add their ideas for colour.

:: THE ENERGY BALL ::




:: THE FLOWER ::



:: THE JUGGLER ::






:: THE CLOCK ::

Creating an Identity Session 1 - The Brief

The group looked at examples of famous and effective logos, brands and identities. They focussed on how to convey identity as a group of individuals, how to reflect movement and how to promote ideals. They looked at logo 'devices', statements & challenges and what the offer may be to a consumer.

They collected their ideas together on paper and attempted to present some themed ideas in the form of a brief for the designer at Snowglobe Creative.

Here are the themes and ideas:


:: The Flower
The Flower represents, growth, nurture, care, maturity and talent.




:: The Flag
The flag is a symbol of a movement. Other themes could be incorporated in the flag design.



:: The Clock
The clock is a twisting mass of all the elements of a young carers life; Family, Money, Education, Friends, Caring, Chocies etc. The figures are holding the weight of the clock on their shoulders.




:: Power / Energy Ball

The power ball represents movement, influence and vibrancy of the Young Carers Revolution. The essence of power or movement could be applied to other devices.




:: Juggler
The juggling figure is loosely based on a human form. The figure is wrapped in a young carers revolution banner and is juggling a family photo, a phone, a clock and other icons

It was discussed that young carers cover a diverse variety of young people who are all individual and unique in their identity and their caring situations.

Straplines:

"Our world, our choice!"

“You can help”

“Make the world a better place”

“Flying the flag for young carers”

“Have you got the time?”

Colours:

Warm, Strong and friendly.


The brief has now been sent to Snowglobe to respond to. Watch this space!!!

Creating an Identity Session 1 - Images

The steering group came together to work on creative ideas for identity and branding for the group. The idea was to spend some time developing a brief for a professional designer to create a logo for the group. The session focussed on images; images of young carers, images of the participants as individuals and how they represent themselves and images of what they hoped the group could achieve.

First the group looked at negative images of being a young carer, things which represented the challenges, difficulties and misconceptions. Here is what they came up with.

NEGATIVE IMAGES OF YOUNG CARERS








:: People are talking about things and they don't know what they are talking about

:: They call people names who have mental health problems and they don't know how much impact that has on me

:: Sometimes people just want to talk, not get involved in the health side

:: You are always juggling; socilalising, caring, commitments, school. There is no time.

:: Isolated. Sometimes thats just the way you feel. Everyone is enjoying themselves but something is going on and you have to go home.

:: Disability is a big issue. Sometimes disability is hidden. She's there physically but not as your mum.

:: Propping up the household and holding things together for the family.

:: Its hard enough being a young person anyway but sometime you can feel lost in the mist of pressure and time.


Once we had explored the negative aspects we moved onto look at the positive images around being a young carer. Here is what the group came up with:

POSITIVE IMAGES OF YOUNG CARERS


:: Being a young carer helps you grow and mature which will help me do things in the future

:: You can feel isolated like being on an island but groups and activities for young carers can make that island feel a bit bigger

:: We feel united as a group

:: Young Carers DO understand about disablity. They are experts and will challenge stereotypes.

:: Shopping and running a household is a real skill

:: Young carers have talents, skills, maturity and overcome challenges on a daily basis

:: Young Carers are nurturing and caring