Do traditional youth work organisations hold the key to sustainability for 21st Century youth provision?

拟议的研究探讨的原因，可持续性的指南协会（GA，前身是女童子军协会，成立于1909年），评估其作用的背景下，不断变化的青年政策，财政紧缩和重组英国青年提供。这是一项基于全国和地方历史文献研究以及对英格兰东北部导游单位的定性研究的合作研究项目，该项目是与连接青年人、青年组织和专业人士的第三部门“枢纽”-“青年焦点东北部”（YFNE）合作开发的。（宗旨、价值观、活动、影响），在青年服务严重减少的时候，为其他志愿青年组织和整个青年部门总结经验教训。目前，GA正在蓬勃发展。它自认为是一个女权主义青年组织，并一直保持其只作为女孩的地位。作为一个全国性的青年组织，它在英国是独一无二的，它积极拒绝青年工作的混合模式，并将自己视为一个女权主义青年工作机构。该研究将考虑GA是一个女权主义青年组织的程度，为什么它对年轻女性如此有吸引力，它对她们的生活有什么影响，以及青年政策制定者/从业者可以从GA的例子中学到什么。合作伙伴，青年重点东北，有一个直接的兴趣，在这项研究，因为它与目前的工作审查青年工作的替代模式的法定规定是严重下降。

The proposed research examines reasons for the sustainability of The Guide Association (GA, formerly Girl Guide Association, founded in 1909), evaluating its role in the context of changing youth policy, financial austerity and reorganisation of UK youth provision. Based on historical documentary research nationally and locally and a qualitative study of guide units operating in North East England, this is a collaborative research project developed in partnership with Youth Focus North East (YFNE), a third sector 'hub' connecting young people, youth organisations and professionals.The research will evaluate the informal education model of youth work adopted by GA (purposes, values, activities, impact), identifying lessons for other voluntary youth organisations and the youth sector as a whole at a time when youth provision is in serious decline. GA is currently thriving. It identifies itself as a feminist youth organisation and has maintained its position as girls only. It is unique in the UK as a national youth organisation that has actively rejected the mixed model of youth work and views itself as a feminist youth work agency. The research will consider the extent to which the GA is a feminist youth organisation, why it is so attractive to young women, what impact it has on their lives and what youth policymakers/practitioners can learn from the example of GA. The collaborative partner, Youth Focus North East, has a direct interest in this research as it links with current work examining alternative models of youth work as statutory provision is inserious decline.