Youth Leads UK has welcomed eleven young people to advise the charity and share youth insights.
The award-winning charity has introduced a Youth Advisory Board into its organisational structure, consisting of diverse young people from Greater Manchester.
Youth Leads UK has a vision of a country where youth leads – where young people feel heard, included, and ready to make meaningful, positive changes around them. To honour this vision and meet the challenge of its founders getting older, the Youth Advisory Board was developed.
The board is a platform for young people to share their insights and experiences on youth-facing issues to help move the charity forward. The Board will meet six times a year, working closely with the charity’s youth engagement team and the Board of Trustees, guiding them in the right direction and ensuring that all future decisions are youth-led and youth-informed.
The first formal meeting took place in Manchester, where members, charity staff and trustees met each other and undertook activities around teamwork and problem-solving.