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  • Spokespeople
  • Key Facts
  • Policy Briefings
  • Campaign Updates

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Spokespeople

UK Youth can provide spokespeople for interview or comment on a wide range of issues relating to UK Youth, our work, and the issues that affect young people and those working with young people.

Areas of expertise include:

  • Youth issues
  • Volunteering Louise in Red
  • Peer education and mentoring
  • Advocacy and campaigning
  • Citizenship and participation
  • Youth policy
  • Non-formal education
  • Young people at risk
  • Community inclusion
  • Outdoor learning
  • Disability

Media Contact details

To request an interview, access images or for further details contact Emma Walker on 01425 675106 or emma@ukyouth.org or Maria Cleminson on 01425 672347 x463 or maria@ukyouth.org.

For details about what goes on at our headquarters, Avon Tyrrell Activity Centre, in the New Forest contact Louis 01425 675101 or louis@ukyouth.org

Key Facts and Figures

UK Youth is the leading youth work charity in the UK supporting over 750,000 young people, 40,000 volunteers and part-time youth workers and 7,000 youth clubs, youth groups and projects.

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UK Youth helps young people to raise their aspirations, realise their potential and have their achievements recognised through a non-formal curriculum approach to learning and development.

For further details see our latest Review:

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Campaign Updates

UK Youth and our youth-led group, UK Youth Voice, campaign on behalf of key youth issues and developments in youth work.

Current campaigns include:

  • Hearing Unheard Voices: Giving young people the opportunity to speak out through media and campaigning activities
  • Movers & Shapers: Helping young people to shape key services

To automatically receive our latest campaign updates contact Emma McEwan: emma.m@ukyouth.org

Policy Briefings

Each month within our online magazine the Source we provide a round-up of latest youth policy news and views from the sector in our policy section. The briefing is read by MPs, researchers, policy-makers, special advisors, and those with an interest in youth policy. It also includes latest details of our Westminster Seminar Series.

To automatically receive the Source contact Kathryn Wentworth: kathryn@ukyouth.org