Super Power Agency

Writing is a superpower.  It’s communicating, it’s creating, it’s using your imagination, making your voice heard.  Writing changes lives.  At the Super Power Agency we work to help young people build their writing skills and develop the confidence and power to achieve their goals and dreams.

Working with under-resourced schools and community organisations across Scotland, our writing workshops connect young people with local volunteers providing a practical way for people to positively impact their community.  Every year we work with around 1,000 young people, professionally publishing their writing as a record of undeniable achievement. Can you help us to reach even more?

Our Impact

To date we’ve published more than 30 books, making us the largest publisher of youth writing in the United Kingdom, but writing is only part of the process.  Our model is simple. We partner with schools and community organisations to motivate young people to write (stories, letters, poetry, plays, guidebooks etc).  We provide support, encouragement and individual attention through a pool of volunteers (currently over 300 are registered), who lower the adult/student ratio helping students get the attention they need to succeed and aspire. And it works.  Writing skills improve, but so does confidence, attainment across subjects and self-esteem.  Our young writers and volunteers connect, friendships are built and the bonds between community members, young and old, become stronger.  It starts with writing, but the benefits are long term and limitless.

Each workshop we hold increases demand for our services, which are only restricted by funding. Could you write yourself into our story by making a donation?

Current data from our most recently completed high school workshops indicates an average of 65% of pupils feel their writing has improved after working with us; 69% of pupils feel more confident in their writing; 94% of young people found working with our volunteers helpful; and 86% of them would like to work with the Super Power Agency again.

School Partners

Our first workshop started at Leith Academy in Edinburgh and resulted in the popular guidebook, The Leither’s Guide to Leith. We’ve grown to 25 primary and secondary schools across five local councils and have plans to continue to grow throughout Scotland!

Edinburgh
Leith Primary
Lorne Primary
Craigentinny Primary
Hermitage Park Primary
Broughton Primary
Abbeyhill Primary
Leith Walk Primary
Stockbridge Primary
Flora Stevenson Primary
Ferryhill Primary
Granton Primary
Leith Academy
Broughton High School
Portobello High School
Drummond Community High School
Tynecastle High School
Currie Community High School
Castlebrae Community High School
Liberton High School

East Lothian|
Musselburgh Grammar School

Fife
Dunfermline High School
Woodmill High School

Scotttish Borders
Halyrude Primary School
Peebles High School

Tullibody (Clacksmannanshire)
St Bernadette’s RC Primary School

Will you support the Super Power Agency?

Help young people like Callum develop the writing skills they need to compete and thrive in the world? Callum participated in one of our first writing workshops, an S2 pupil who in his own words was 'turned off' and an 'unengaged' young man in a bottom set English class. Now in S6, Callum is headed to university and credits his love of English and writing to his experience with the Super Power Agency. Listen to him talk about how the Super Power Agency helped him:

We need your help!  We receive no government or local council support and rely on donations from the community and people like you to keep our work going and growing. We currently partner with 25 schools in Scotland but want to support many more. To date we’ve worked with over 4000 young people and demand increases each school year. We rely entirely on donations to keep our workshops tuition-free and post pandemic there is an urgent need to re-engage those struggling in education as well as strengthen links with our local neighbourhoods.

This is your chance to help build skills that last a life time.

£10 buys a book of youth writing (hint, go browse our website)

£50 provides supplies for an eight week workshop

£100 supports two young people in a workshop 

£300 pays the print/production costs for the final publication from a workshop