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  • BYC Manifesto 2010 - 2012

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  • Our Community Briefings

    • Our Community: Address the lack of affordable rural housing

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    • Our Community: Believe in equality

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    • Our Community: End poverty in our communities

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    • Our Community: Listen to local youth councils

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    • Our Community: Provide safe and affordable transport

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    • Our Community: Support and promote good relations with the nations

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    • Our Community: Support us to inspect local services

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    • Our Community: Support us to volunteer

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  • Our Democracy Briefings

    • Our Democracy: Listen to young people on electoral reform

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    • Our Democracy: Lower the candidacy age to 16

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    • Our Democracy: Open up the House of Lords to young people

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    • Our Democracy: Value our vote

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  • Our Education Briefings

    • Our Education: Defend and improve the Education Maintenance Allowance

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    • Our Education: Engage and inform us through political and citizenship education

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    • Our Education: Improve access to higher education

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    • Our Education: Inspire us to stay in education and training

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    • Our Education: Provide high quality sex and relationships education

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    • Our Education: Strengthen our student voice

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    • Our Education: Support young disabled students

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    • Our Education: Value further education

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  • Our Employment Briefings

    • Our Employment: Create a fair and equal national minimum wage

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    • Our Employment: Listen to us about the economy and unemployment

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    • Our Employment: Strengthen our workplace rights

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    • Our Employment: Support cooperation in enterprise

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  • Our Environment Briefings

    • Our Environment: Defend the greenbelt

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    • Our Environment: Tackle climate change and support sustainable development

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  • Our Health Briefings

    • Our Health: Blood donations by all for all

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    • Our Health: Create a youth friendly national health service

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    • Our Health: Empower us to make informed choices about sex and pregnancy

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    • Our Health: Have an opt out organ donation scheme

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    • Our Health: Make it easier and cheaper to eat healthily

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    • Our Health: Recognise that our minds matter

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    • Our Health: Support bereaved young people

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  • Our Justice Briefings

    • Our Justice: Ban the Mosquito

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    • Our Justice: Build good relationships between young people and the police

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    • Our Justice: Involve young people to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour

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    • Our Justice: Legalise same-sex marriage

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    • Our Justice: Look for alternatives to custody

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    • Our Justice: Protect children and young people from common assault

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    • Our Justice: Recognise the rights of asylum seekers

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  • Our Leisure Briefings

    • Our Leisure: Discount culture, leisure and sporting activities for young people

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    • Our Leisure: Improve the quality and quantity of culture, leisure and sporting activities

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    • Our Leisure: Support special interest groups

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    • Our Leisure: Support young people to take part in outdoor activities

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  • Our World Briefings

    • Our World: Give us a global voice

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    • Our World: Make trade fair

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    • Our World: Mark the UN International Year of Youth

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    • Our World: Support fair international development

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We run training workshops, create volunteering opportunities and build inspiring campaigns which give everyone aged 25 and under a chance to make a positive contribution to society.

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