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Josh Scott, 19,  is part of The Youth of Today apprenticeship. His apprenticeship is in youth work, of which he spends a day working with the Citizenship Foundation, 3 days at a youth work placement and a day of college (I like to think his favourite day is at the Citizenship Foundation with me of [...]

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Nicola Harwood, Education Officer for The Youth of Today celebrates the Citizenship Foundation’s journey into new territory - youth leadership. Questioning how we can develop young people as leaders Nicola asks how we can engage the disengaged.

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This morning I attended the launch event of the Youth Citizenship Commission’s final report, no doubt lost in the press amongst the ‘jacko mania’ . The usual suspects were all there eager to hear the outcomes on effective participation and the engagement of young people in politics - with most of us wondering if they [...]

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So over this morning’s regular cup of tea a few of us were talking about what the office should do for Comic Relief. After countless frankly bizarre suggestions (cue baked beans in a bath ideas ?!?), it led to a discussion on why people have to do something funny in order to ‘get’ charitable giving.

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On 23rd June 2008 Ade and I took a group of young people from the Youth Act Graduate Council to a consultation by the Government Office of London with Rt Hon Tessa Jowell who were trying to ascertain what the governments priorities for Young people should be.

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