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  • BYC Manifesto 2012 - 2014

    • BYC Manifesto 2012 - 2014

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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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  • UK Youth Parliament meets Obama in Belfast
  • BYC urges No. 10 to include young leaders in talks: “Let’s act to show some leadership and solidarity for safer communities”
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About BYC

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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Our awards and honours

  • Third Sector
  • CYPN
  • Charity Awards
  • Third Sector (2011)
  • Queen's Volunteering Award

 

Our youth-led networks

We runs a number of youth-led networks and programmes  which encourage young people to get involved in democracy and campaign to bring about change. 

Find out more about our work

Our Youth-Led Networks

  • UK Youth Parliament
  • Local Youth Council Network
  • Young Mayors Network
  • UK Young Ambassadors

 

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By becoming a member of BYC young people within your organisation can come together with others across the UK. BYC empowers this unique coalition to use their powerful collective voice to make a difference and to influence decisions - locally, nationally and internationally.

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As a charity, we depend on the ongoing support of the fantastic individuals, groups and companies who enable us to continue our work empowering young people. There are lots of different ways you can support our work.

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