The Youth Company
Youth & community / 2010–2013; later founder activity
The Youth Company
Building a youth enterprise, sponsor relationships and the teams behind programmes across Qatar.
- My role
- Founder & CEO
- Organisation
- The Youth Company
- Period
- 2010–2013; later founder activity
I founded The Youth Company to deliver programmes across culture, sport, education, entrepreneurship and community engagement. I built a portfolio of 79 sponsors and institutional partners and led 15 staff and more than 100 volunteers.
My contribution
- Developed government, corporate and institutional relationships supporting youth programmes, including Run The World Festival.
- Led staff and volunteers across partnerships, finance, operations and communications.
- Connected programme ideas with sponsor propositions and the teams needed to deliver them.
Programmes and partnerships
- Run The World: sport, culture and youth participation. Gulf Times reported 27,000 visitors and 700 volunteers at the 2012 edition.
- Youth Change Everything: leadership conferences with partners including QFIB and INJAZ Qatar.
- Talk Dirty: an environment and sustainability forum developed with institutional and community partners.
- Hasanat: Ramadan volunteering; 2015 reporting recorded 63 activities and more than 250 volunteers.
- International exchange: an internship partnership with Dutch agency Buitenlandsestage.nl.
Festival coverage ↗ · Conference partner record ↗ · Sustainability interview ↗ · Volunteering coverage ↗ · Internship partnership ↗
Why it matters
This experience gave me direct responsibility for building an organisation and maintaining the relationships behind its work.
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