YouthBank

Brief:

YouthBank UK is a charitable organisation that provides funding to young people by young people for community projects.

The funds for projects are distributed through regional YouthBanks, run by groups of young people with the support of local host organisations - such a local councils, who help the YouthBank with administration and support.

YouthBank UK is the parent organisation, tasked with helping to develop and support each regional YouthBank as well as promoting YouthBanks on a national scale.

The YouthBank UK had three main aims for their website:

• Promote YouthBank UK and the development of new regional YouthBanks
• Promote each regional YouthBank
• Provide YouthBanks with a central source of information and a place to exchange ideas

The challenge for us was to provide information to young people within an environment which they would enjoy using over and over again.

Solution:

We decided to build the site using dynamic Flash as this gave us the opportunity the make the site more visually appealing and easy to administer. The user environment is clean and simple to use, yet engaging and different with every click. Creating an alternative html version of the site kept the site accessible and search engine friendly.

To provide access to regional YouthBank information we designed a fun mapping system linking to a regional "mini sites" which are administrable for regional YouthBanks using Internova's Content Management System.

www.youthbank.org.uk