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Read all the latest news stories, blogs and policy updates from London Youth and across our network.
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Urban Nature's First Environmental Leaders Weekend
15 March 2013Young people from across the UK recently participated in our first Environmental Leaders weekend at Hindleap Warren. In partnership with Ambition our aim was to bring together a diverse range of youth organisations interested in developing environmental projects at their respective clubs. In total 38 young people and 10 youth workers participated from youth […]
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Volunteer It Yourself project rolls out across the country
13 March 2013The Volunteer It Yourself (VIY) project, in which young people complete essential repairs and renovations on their youth clubs, is being rolled out across the country. Now launching in Birmingham, young people will gain qualifications and skills through the pioneering Lottery-funded programme. Local Wickes tradespeople will mentor and train young people to renovate five Birmingham-based youth […]
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HRH enjoys visit to Woodrow
11 March 2013We were absolutely delighted to welcome London Youth’s Patron, His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh KG KT to Woodrow High House. Woodrow is London Youth’s residential learning centre in Buckinghamshire and this was Prince Philip’s fourth visit to the Centre. The theme of the visit was to celebrate the successful completion of the first […]
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A brighter shade of purple…
27 February 20131 March 2013 This week sees the culmination of three things that we’ve been building up to at London Youth: First, we’ve heard officially that we can progress leading on Talent Match in London, part of the Big Lottery Fund’s £100m investment in tackling youth unemployment. Second, we’ve launched our refreshed three year strategy with […]
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Michael Gove responds
27 February 2013Education Secretary, Michael Gove has now replied to the joint youth letter, sent by representatives from 15 different organisations on behalf of over 8 million young people in England, expressing their grave concerns about youth policy not being a priority for central government. Our Youth Advisory Board, Dare London, contributed to the letter which explains the value of good youth services […]
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Membership focus groups
07 January 2013In 2012 we held four focus groups with 18 of our member clubs. These groups were run independently by the research company GFK-NOP who donated their time to us. The members who took part shared their feedback with us on what it is like to be a London Youth member, and where and how we […]
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Great youth work celebrated
03 January 2013We were delighted to see that Stu Thompson, the manager at our member club Knights Youth Centre in Streatham, has won the iPM New Year's Honours Award. This award is for Stu's great work with young people. You can listen to a Radio 4 interview about the award here. We are very pleased to see […]
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Getting Ready for Zambia
04 October 2012Sports participation programme takes young Londoners to Zambia Getting Ready took 13 young people away to Zambia on a Tag Rugby tour in 2012. [video:https://vimeo.com/62605198 autoplay:1] The young people came from Hackney Quest and Coram’s Fields, two central London youth clubs from our network. Together, the young people from the two clubs formed a […]
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The Challenge
14 September 2012This summer London Youth worked as a franchise partner of The Challenge, to deliver their National Citizen Service programme to 150 young people in Hackney and Tower Hamlets. The programme is designed to encourage young people at the end of year 11 to challenge themselves and try new things. The first week, the Personal Challenge […]
