After I sent them the finished logo months ago for them to get printed onto t-shirts and other applications that they needed, I have just been sent some photographs of the logo in use which has made me feel a bit better about this brief as it seems to definitely fit what they wanted:

After the charity chose the typeface 'American Typewriter' and just told me to include this I added this in and experimented with different colour schemes:

 Using American Typewriter:

They then decided they wanted the text underneath to be simply 'York' and this is the final logo that they chose to use:

I personally really don't like this brief or the outcome but the charity workers seem to be really happy with it and it fits what they have asked for.

After struggling to produce anything that felt like it even remotely worked, I asked the charity to get one of the kids they work with to draw the logo out that I could base the logo off.

I was sent this image drawn by one of the children:

I then traced the type and thickened it:

Then simply took out the KEEN and cleaned this up a bit more:

I also traced the person that the child had drawn in the same way:

And then simplified it so that it looked more like the original stick man from other KEEN logos:

Looking at other charity branding:

(images found on Behance and Pinterest)

Trying different typefaces:

Merging everything together:

None of this really seems to work for what the charity wants so I'm going to go back to the drawing board and completely reconsider the approach.

This is the rough client brief I have been given: