In this section:
1. Registration to run the Youth Challenges and Youth Achievement Awards
2. Registration Fees and Charges
3. Wider Key Skills registration with ASDAN
4. Interested?
Registration to run the Youth Challenges and Youth Achievement Awards
The Youth Challenges and Youth Achievement Awards can be accessed by any organisation working with young people in a context that is compatible to the use of the Awards and the ethos of UK Youth.
UK Youth are committed to making the Awards accessible to both large and small organisations but need to balance the income generated with the costs incurred by national development of the programme. In order to be able to use the Awards with your young people you will need to ensure that you are registered. The same registration enables you to run both the Youth Challenges and the Youth Achievement Awards. Registration also entitles groups to access ASDAN’s Wider Key Skill qualifications. For registering organisations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland you will need to contact the relevant country office.
There are two levels of registration:
Operating Agencies and Participating Units are required to read and sign the Programme Delivery Agreement which outlines your and UK Youth’s responsibilities in more detail.
Operating Agency Status
There are two different levels of registration as an Operating Agency:
- National Operating Agency-
appropriate for organisations who wish to deliver the Youth Achievement Awards through Regional Operating Agencies and/or Participating Units across England. A national OA may support regional Operating Agencies in their network who, in turn, support local Participating Units. Alternatively, a national OA may work directly through Participating Units, or by registering a combination of both.
- Regional Operating Agency- appropriate for schools, colleges, prisons, youth services, countywide voluntary associations and regional support agencies. Participating Units register directly with an Operating Agency and access support and information from their OA.
Participating Unit Status
A Participating Unit is an individual youth group or small youth project that will generally work with less than 35 young people on the Youth Achievement Awards per year. All Participating Units will need to be registered with an Operating Agency. All Operating Agencies are required to authorise the registration of Participating Units on the official registration form for Participating Units. When Participating Units are presenting a considerable number of portfolios for external moderation in a year (i.e. 35 or more), we reserve the right to insist that they register as an Operating Agency in their own right or divide into more than one unit.
Please note:
- UK Youth is able to offer guidance to any potential Participating Units about existing Operating Agencies in their locality.
Registration Fees and Charges
Registration fees are charged on an annual basis and a pro-forma invoice for these will be issued each March. Registrations that are made in the middle of a year are charged the pro-rata amount to the end of the following March. The current registration fees are below:
Registrations (per annum)
- National Operating Agency: (throughout England) - £2,400 + VAT
- Regional Operating Agency: (to operate in one region only) - £540 + VAT
- Regional Operating Agency attached to National Operating Agency £450 + VAT
- Participating Unit- £48
NB For Registration Costs within Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales please contact the relevant country office.
All registrations for the Awards are charged on a pro-rata rate to ensure that April is the renewal date for all registered Agencies and Units. The pro-rata charges are as follows:
| National OA + VAT | Regional OA attached to Nat OA
+ VAT | Regional Operating Agencies
+ VAT | Participating Units |
| April 08 - April 09 | £2400 | £450 | £540.00 | £48.00 |
| May 08 - April 09 | £2200 | £412.50 | £495.00 | £44.00 |
| June 08 - April 09 | £2000 | £375 | £450.00 | £40.00 |
| July 08 - April 09 | £1800 | £337.50 | £405.00 | £36.00 |
| August 08 - April 09 | £1600 | £300 | £360.00 | £32.00 |
| September 08 - April 09 | £1400 | £262.50 | £315.00 | £28.00 |
| October 08 - April 2010 | £3600 | £675 | £770.00 | £72.00* |
| November 08 - April 2010 | £3400 | £637.50 | £725.00 | £68.00* |
| December 08 - April 2010 | £3200 | £600 | £680.00 | £64.00* |
| January 09 - April 2010 | £3000 | £562.50 | £675.00 | £60.00* |
| February 09 - April 2010 | £2800 | £525 | £630.00 | £56.00* |
| March 09 - April 09 | £2600 | £487.50 | £585.00 | £52.00* |
* price includes renewal of licence to April 2010
Frequestly Asked Questions
1. What you will our organisation receive when we register as a Regional/ National Operating Agency?
In addition to enabling you to access the Youth Challenges and Youth Achievement Awards programmes you will receive the following additional benefits when you register to run the Awards:
- A dedicated Education and Training Development Officer
- Telephone and e-mail support service
- Regular updates on training and moderation opportunities in your region
- Youth Challenges and Youth Achievement Awards newsletter three times a year
- Regional networking events
- A registration number unique to you to be quoted on all correspondence
- Yearly updates of all current Participating Units registered with you
- A start-up pack of materials to enable you to promote and support the Awards within your organisation. This pack includes a sample copy of each of the booklets at the six levels, a copy of the Youth Challenges and Youth Achievement Awards Guidelines, and promotional materials as available
- Quarterly subscription to UK Youth's e-magazine
- Support to complete your first internal moderation if required
- Free registration to deliver ASDAN’s Wider Key Skills qualifications
2. What you will our organisation receive when we register as a Participating Unit?
In addition to support and guidance from your Operating Agency, a Participating Unit receives the following benefits:
- Youth Challenges and Youth Achievement Awards newsletter three times a year
- A registration number unique to you to be quoted on all correspondence
- Quarterly subscription to UK Youth e-magazine
Wider Key Skills Registration with ASDAN
Registration with UK Youth to run the Youth Challenges and Youth Achievement Awards will also enable you to access ASDAN’s Wider Key Skills programmes as a registered centre.
The three Wider Key Skills are:
- ‘Improving your Own Learning and Performance’,
They fit neatly into the youth work context and can be generated from involvement in a Youth Achievement Award as they follow the same planning, target setting and reviewing methodology. The Wider Key Skills are qualifications that are approved for use in schools (via Section 96) and are fundable by LSC for use with young people aged 16 plus (via Section 97). The Wider Key Skills are all assessed through portfolio-based evidence (and can be cross referenced to a Youth Achievement Award). Other advantages are that the Wider Key Skills also appear in school and college league tables (where relevant). At Level 3 all three Wider Key Skills broadly equate to an AS Level with 60 UCAS Tariff points on offer (the same as a Grade A at AS level).
In 2003 UKY and ASDAN were commissioned by the National LSC to explore how the two programmes link together. Well over 40% of the young people involved achieved at least one Wider Key Skill by the end of the twelve-month project
To register with ASDAN directly normally costs £180 per academic year. Training and support can be bought in directly from ASDAN.
For more information about ASDAN’s Wider Key Skills, please click here
Interested?
If you would like to register to run the Youth Challenges and Youth Achievement Awards programme, please download and completed the Registration Form and Programme Delivery Agreement and return them to Charmaine Simpson.
