
Over the past 10 years K-Generation has continuously punched above its weight and we hope has contributed long-term to a number of positive changes within the youth sector as well as within the lives of those young people that we have had the privilege to serve.
In April 2008 Neil Almond, K-Generation’s founder and chief executive, was involved in a plane crash in Australia and, as such life events so often do, this experience created the opportunity to review the organisation’s successes and consider how best the individuals concerned could make an ongoing contribution to the social agenda that has always driven Kikass.
K-Generation has always been, at its heart, the sum of our people and the great ideas we've had for investing in the lives of 16-26 year olds; the organisational vehicle of a charity is nothing on its own without these. At the end of our review process, having looked at a number of different models and explored new leadership, it became clear that after 10 amazing years K-Generation had completed its mission. It is time to create a space in which the energy that first created K-Generation and the Kikass brand can be refocused into new and innovative methods for supporting the well-being and development of young people.
It is therefore with considerable pride and excitement for the future that our trustees and officers have chosen to close K-Generation as a charity during the year 2010/11. In so doing it is our hope that we will once again free the spirit that created and nurtured K-Generation and Kikass and create the space for new initiatives to be born and developed.
We are immensely proud of our accomplishments and would like to give our heartfelt thanks to all the individuals and organisations that have supported us in our mission over the past ten years; we couldn't have done it without you and have appreciated every second and penny you contributed. We would also like to acknowledge all of the incredible young people (some of them now not so young) that we had the privilege to support and work alongside; we bless you all on your paths and wish you even more extraordinary adventures now and in the future. We look forward to our paths crossing again. We have such incredible memories of the past 10 years and remain truly excited about the years ahead. Thank you for being part of the Kikass adventure; we hope we leave the world a little more juiced than we found it.
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