Young people who got stuck: from playing games to making games
How do you help young people who got stuck get a job again? Young people who sit at home all day playing games. Lonely, depressed, without self-confidence.
What happens if you don’t let these young people play games, but let them make games themselves?
We believe in these young people and we believe that we can help them get back on their feet!
Our experience as youth workers: working together gives a boost!
We are Wouter and Esther and have organized large national games and events together with young people as youth workers over the past 10 years. We discovered that a surprising number of young people who participated as volunteers had a backpack and learned that working together gave them a boost.
The foundation of Breakout Bandits was laid in this youth work.
Our goal: making a social impact
We are a social enterprise whose primary goal is to make a social impact. Making a profit is a secondary goal. We want to offer young people a life-changing experience: They work on new skills by creating games. They learn about their qualities and gain more self-confidence through personal guidance. They build a network of young people who look out for each other, which reduces loneliness and improves mental health. All of this contributes to our goal: We give young people a perspective to take the next step in their lives.
Problem
A growing number of young people are experiencing psychological complaints, stress and loneliness. Some of them are stuck at home.
Approach
Together with young people we create impactful team building games, in a homely atmosphere, without stress.
target group
Young people and young adults aged 18 to 35 with a creative mindset who got stuck in society.
Coaching
We offer substantive coaching, personal coaching and build a community that looks after each other.
Our team building games
Our games excite and connect
We love to excite people and are happy when players feel more connected to each other during our games. As far as we are concerned, this can go a layer deeper than you might normally be used to during team building.
All games are personalized
We personalize all our games per customer. Players fill out a questionnaire in advance and we process those answers in the game. This way, every customer gets a unique, customized team building game.
Playable anywhere in the world
The game concepts we develop can be characterized as location based team building games. The players have to go outside to play the game. With every step they take with their phone, a next step in the game is activated.
Make a social impact, come work with us
Working as an employee
Think of healthcare professionals who work in healthcare, want to leave the healthcare sector because of all the stress and rules, but would like to guide young people and young adults. Think of people with a passion for commerce and marketing, who are enthusiastic about helping Startup grow, but who want to make more social impact. Think of game developers who find it a fun challenge to develop games together with young people and young adults and want to get more satisfaction from their work in this way.
We could go on for a while. We want to grow, we have ambition and for that we need good people. Do you see yourself working at Breakout Bandits? Go crazy, contact us. We are open to all kinds of collaborations: from voluntarily being involved occasionally, part-time as a “side hustle” next to your job at a large corporate or all-in at Bandits.
Working as a participant (youth or young adults)
We are open to new employees. Feel free to contact us and come and have a cup of coffee in the Banditshuis.
We officially exist
Yes, we really do exist. We are registered with the Chamber of Commerce under the trade name Breakout Bandits with Chamber of Commerce number 84049863 and VAT number NL003912996B26. Our postal address is Leeweg 32, Berkel en Rodenrijs in the Netherlands. The Banditshouse is located at Wilhelminstraat 17 in Berkel en Rodenrijs in the Netherlands.