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 December 10, 2023

Category: UK Youth Parliament Campaigns

UK Youth Parliament campaigns.

Food for Learning: the Campaign for Universal Free School Meals

Tuesday, 21 March 2023 by Izzy Taylor

UK Youth Parliament and the Child Poverty Action Group are calling for all young people aged 18 and under to receive free school meals. Over 40 years, progress has been hard won to improve and extend the Free School Meals entitlement. Free School Meals have superpowers: the evidence shows that access to a hot, nutritious

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Stop Plastic Pollution

Wednesday, 21 July 2021 by Brendan McGowan

In 2020’s Make Your Mark ballot young people voted both plastic pollution and climate change in the top 5 devolved/UK issues for the coming year. UK Youth Parliament will be campaigning to address climate change at the UK level with a particular focus on making sure that we stop non-essential single-use plastics by 2025. Plastic

  • Published in UK Youth Parliament Campaigns
Tagged under: campaigns, climate change, climate emergency, plastic pollution, UK Youth Parliament

Mental Health: A movement for change

Monday, 19 July 2021 by Brendan McGowan

About the campaign In 2020’s Make Your Mark ballot young people voted for mental health as one of their top 3 priorities for the coming year. UK Youth Parliament will be campaigning alongside YoungMinds to build a movement for change and ensure that children and young people’s mental health is at the heart of the

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Tagged under: mental health, UK Youth Parliament

Transforming Education

Wednesday, 31 March 2021 by Rhammel Afflick

About the campaign In 2020’s Make Your Mark ballot young people voted for free university as one of their top 3 priorities for the coming year. UK Youth Parliament will be campaigning alongside the National Union of Students (NUS) to create a campaign for free, lifelong and inclusive education and advocate for the Government to

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Tagged under: education, UK Youth Parliament, young people

Protect the Future

Monday, 16 March 2020 by Nikki Hall

About the Campaign Our National Campaign for 2020 – ‘Protect the Future’ We will be campaigning to tackle the impact and continuation of climate change between February and October 2020. In 2019, young people across the UK voted to prioritise climate change as the UK campaign issue. Following the ballot, Members of Youth Parliament voted

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Tagged under: protect the future, UK Youth Parliament

Young people should vote from age of 16

Saturday, 16 March 2019 by Nikki Hall

About the Campaign Our National Campaign for 2019 – ‘Votes for 16 and 17 year olds in all public elections’ Over 1.5 million 16 and 17-year-olds are currently unable to vote in elections and referendums across the UK. This has been a key issue for the UK Youth Parliament for multiple years and was voted

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Action Against Knife Crime

Saturday, 16 March 2019 by Nikki Hall

About the Campaign Our England Only Campaign for 2019 As knife crime has continued to climb over the last few years, the UK Youth Parliament believes that this issue needed to be addressed.  In the 2018 Make Your Mark ballot, over 196,000 young people aged 11-18 from across the UK voted to put an end

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A Curriculum for Life

Sunday, 10 June 2018 by Nikki Hall

Our England Only Campaign for 2018 Last year, over 130,674 young people voted for the need to have a Curriculum for Life as their most important issue. What does this mean? It means that young people are saying the education system needs to do a lot more to prepare them for life after school or

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Votes for 16 and 17 year olds in all public elections

Thursday, 16 March 2017 by Nikki Hall

About the Campaign Our national campaign for 2017 – ‘Votes for 16 and 17 year olds in all public elections’ Over 978,000 young people voted in the UK Youth Parliaments Make your Mark ballot, with over 112,000 young people voting to make it one of their top five priority issues. In a subsequent vote in the House

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Reduce racism and religious discrimination in our communities

Saturday, 05 March 2016 by Nikki Hall

Our National Campaign for 2016 – ‘Working together to combat racism and religious discrimination’ Following over 95,000 young people voting to tackle racism and racial discrimination as a priority issue; and Members of Youth Parliament voting to make this the national campaign during the 2015 House of Commons Sitting, the UK Youth Parliament will be working in their

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