revved up
London
Who are we? We are Revved Up. We provide paid work experience for young people
from L8 and the surrounding areas to prevent them from being involved in serious
organised crime. What do we do? Young, disadvantaged people who are at risk are
given opportunities to recruit for and co-facilitate youth projects, events and
community consultations. During their time with us, young people are given the
opportunity to join our list of members, contribute to/learn the operations/
day-to-day running of our community business, they are all also given personal
development programmes, 1:1 coaching and mentoring, social prescribing and
business start-up advice. We have regular staff trips and excursions to come up
with ideas and celebrate recent successes, these are all chosen by the young
people. Our community business originates from another organisation called This
Is My Story Limited (TIMS). Over 5 years ago TIMS was founded by Phillip Taylor
(1957-2021) Adam Taylor, Sophie Middleman, Mike Hobbs and Deborah Fitzsimmons.
The purpose of this organisation was to work with disadvantaged young people
involved in crime, drug activity, addiction and those who had severe mental
health problems. Adam and his family have spent most of their lives in Toxteth
L8 Liverpool and it is one of the most disadvantaged areas in the country. The
majority of the work that TIMS did was in Toxteth working with young people (all
of whom were referred by word of mouth) that needed help in one of these areas.
When TIMS was 2 years old, our founder (Adam Taylor) noticed that the young
people he was working with through TIMS expressed a desire to follow in his
footsteps and decided to try and make that happen, that is when he started
Revved Up Limited.
