Gap-year Students

Gap Year Students (Gappers) are often selected because they are not in education, training or employment and are struggling to change their situation; they may have learning difficulties, be a young parent, or have a criminal record.

Gappers spend thirty-five hours a week for up to nine months at Salmon, spending twenty hours gaining experience in youth work, and fifteen hours training for a qualification; usually Foundation Studies in Youth Work. This gives them access to higher education which they previously would not have had, or it leads to the start of a career in youth work. 

Out of the first 28 young people to become Gappers, 82% completed the course, and 79% have gone on to higher education or better jobs. 

"My experience at Salmon will help me to build up my CV so that when I’m done, hopefully, I can go into youth work, catering or do something else.  If Salmon was not here, I would be reoffending again, go back to prison, or get killed.  I thank Salmon today because I don’t know what would have happened to me if I didn’t know Salmon." Stephane, 18 (click here to read stephane's full story)

Click here if you are interested in becoming a Gap-year Student at Salmon.