Links
We have compiled a list of useful websites in the following categories:
Awards
Common Purpose
CHANGEit is a collaboration between Common Purpose and Deutsche Bank. It has been designed to recognise the achievements and ambitions of young people, between the ages of 11-18, who want to make a difference and speak out about issues that they care about.
Campaign Suppliers
Recipero Ltd
Recipero is a global leader in providing analytical and information services to consumers, business and the public sector. At the core of Recipero is the billions of pieces of data relating to possession ownership, associated criminality, fraud and illegal trading held on the MEND database.
Community
Regen School
Regen School is The Community Based School of Regeneration. They help 200 people a year develop their project ideas make deprived areas of the country a better place to be.
The Citizenship Foundation
The Citizenship Foundation aims to empower individuals to engage in the wider community through education about the law, democracy and society. They focus particularly on developing young people’s citizenship skills, knowledge and understanding.
Charities
Pilotlight
Pilotlight works to help small, innovative charities grow and fulfil their potential by recruiting members from business and industry, proven leaders and high fliers who want to donate their skills to charities.
Princes Trust
The Princes Trust is a UK charity that helps young people overcome barriers and get their lives working. Through practical support including training, mentoring and financial assistance, they help 14-30 year olds realise their potential and transform their lives.
Time Bank UK
TimeBank is a national charity inspiring and connecting people to share and give time. TimeBank appeals to people like you who know that their time and skills are in demand - but just don't know what to do about it or where to start.
Vodafone UK Foundation
The Vodafone UK Foundation helps excluded 16-25 year olds in the UK to live fuller lives, primarily by increasing their access to information and opportunities through mobile technology-based solutions.
The Forgiveness Project
The Forgiveness Project works at a local, national and international level to help build a future free of conflict and violence by healing the wounds of the past. By collecting and sharing people’s stories, and delivering outreach programmes, The Forgiveness Project encourages and empowers people to explore the nature of forgiveness and alternatives to revenge.
Rowntree Foundation
This is one of the largest social policy research and development charities in the UK, spending about £10 million a year on a research and development programme that seeks to better understand the causes of social difficulties and explore ways of overcoming them.
The Foundation for Social Improvement
The Foundation for Social Improvement (The FSI) is a not-for-profit, philanthropic and internationally focused organisation with a passion and commitment to breaking cycles of social exclusion and improving lives.
Education
Europe In The UK - Youth, Education and Culture
This site is for young Europeans on the move!
It has been designed to highlight the study, work and entertainment opportunities open to young people across the European Union. It offers resources, basic information and links to related sites, as well as forums for students, teachers and youth groups to exchange information and compare their experiences and their views on the EU.
Lion King Educational Programme
This is a great way to teach pupils of all ages about the wonderful world of live theatre and to capture their attention and imaginations as never before. This popular programme is designed to enhance the study of a variety of subjects in an informative and memorable way and provide a unique opportunity for your pupils to learn in a stimulating and exciting environment.
www2.disney.co.uk/MusicalTheatre/TheLionKing/education/programmeinfo.html
Think Quest
ThinkQuest inspires students to think, connect, create, and share. Students work in teams to build innovative and educational websites to share with the world. Along the way, they learn research, writing, teamwork, and technology skills and compete for exciting prizes.
Social Change
We Are What We Do
We're not another charity. We're not an institution. We Are What We Do is a movement. We'd like to inspire people to use their everyday actions to change the world. Whoever they are. And wherever they are. And that includes you.
Small Actions Big Changes
We're looking for the simple, everyday actions that, when enough people do them, can bring about BIG CHANGE. So, we're asking you "what would you ask one million people to do to change the world?"
Find the action. Show us its amazing, world-changing potential. Convince us with pictures. Sway the polls. And if you win, we'll get as many as ONE MILLION people to do it. And then see if you're right.
Youth
UK Youth
UK Youth is the leading national youth work charity supporting over 750,000 young people, helping them to raise their aspirations, realise their potential and have their achievements recognised via non-formal, accredited education programmes and activities.
YouthNet
YouthNet is the UK's first exclusively online charity. They guide and support young people, enabling them to make educated life choices, participate in society and achieve their ambitions. Young people relate to these services because they are reached through the internet, mobile phones and digital television - platforms that are integral to their lifestyles.
The Site
TheSite.org is the first place that many 16-24 year-olds turn to when they need confidential support and trusted guidance. TheSite.org provides over 2,000 factsheets and articles on all the important issues which young people face today: sex and relationships; drink and drugs; work and study; housing, legal and money issues; health and wellbeing; and travel and free time.
UNICEF Youth Voice
UNICEF UK Youth Voice is a network of young people, aged 11-18, who are committed to children’s rights. By fundraising, campaigning, and telling it like it is, you can speak up for the world’s children, adding your voice to theirs.
Vancouver Youth
YouthPolitik is a new and innovative program, designed in partnership with the City of Vancouver, Park Board, School Board, Library and youth community, for youth ages 14-19 living in Vancouver.
Make Your Mark Connect
This website is a free way to find a group in your local area, add an event you are organising, or start a new group right here today.
Free Think
FreeThink is open to everyone. It's a place to debate, challenge, wrangle and cajole.
MTV Think
Think is your community where you, your friends, and your favorite celebrities can get informed, get heard and take action on the issues that matter to you most. MTV has launched Think to give young people everywhere the opportunity to make your life, your community and your world better. The Think community provides the tools so you can do just that.
Student Listeners
Student Listeners is a peer support scheme for schools, where trained students are "Listeners", providing someone for students to turn to, normally in cases of bullying, but sometimes about other concerns.
Sent Down
There are potentially 30,000 people a year that are employable and have learnt skills through the prison system. Could your company see past a criminal conviction? Andy Evans' website aims to revise some deep-rooted prejudices.
Youth Enterprise
Striding Out
Striding Out is a support network for young entrepreneurs. They provide connections, support and inspiration to members to help them succeed in their entrepreneurial journey.
Start Talking Ideas
Start Talking Ideas is led by Enterprise Insight - a coalition founded by the UK's main business organisations in partnership with leading enterprise development organisations. The aim of the campaign is to encourage young people to be enterprising in the broadest sense, to make their ideas real.
Community Action Network
Community Action Network is the UK's leading organisation for the development and promotion of social entrepreneurs. It connects people in communities, bringing together those from voluntary and not-for-profit organisations with the public and private sectors.
Youth Volunteering and Giving
Get On Board
Get on Board is a new campaign, run in partnership by the Governance Hub, Charity Commission and Volunteering England, to raise the profile of trusteeship and encourage more people to take on this essential voluntary role.
G-Nation
G-Nation works with young people throughout the UK to show them how they can change the world by giving.
Do It
Launched in 2001, do-it.org.uk is the most diverse and comprehensive national database of volunteering opportunities in the UK.
do-it.org.uk provides details of 800,000 opportunities to volunteer throughout the UK, any of which can be found with a simple postcode search.
Youth Campaigning and Politics
Unicef J8 Summit
The J8 Summit is the parallel youth event to the G8 Summit. Directly before the G8 Summit, winning teams from the J8 Competition meet together in the G8 presidency country. Here they will discuss and debate the items on the G8 agenda as well as issues particularly relevant to young people.
European Youth Parliament
The European Youth Parliament (EYP) is an educational foundation that aims to build on the potential of young people through the strengthening of skills such as communication, teambuilding, trust, understanding and working with others from very different backgrounds.
MySociety
mySociety's mission is to build internet projects which give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. They've rebuilt their innovative FaxYourMP site - now it's even easier to send e-mail or faxes to MPs, local councillors, MEPs, MSPs and Welsh and London Assembly members.
CitizenSpace
CitizenSpace works by running policy-specific consultations through which you provide ideas and comments. Feedback is collated and fed directly back to the relevant decision-makers to help shape future policy.