CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Changemakers envisions reinvigorated political and decision making processes and institutions and a new culture of civic engagement throughout our society. We are delivering this vision through promoting youth volunteering, enabling young people to design and deliver services and developing youth leadership.
Click here to read our Civic Engagement 2018 manifesto.
Volunteering
We see youth led volunteering and community action as a crucial ‘entry point’ for young people’s civic engagement.
Click here to visit our new virtual volunteering portal.
Service delivery
We’re developing innovative new approaches to engage young people in the design and delivery of public services.
Click here to find out more about Y FUND through which Changemakers is enabling young people to control youth service budgets in local authorities across England.
Youth leadership
Our Y ACT programme is developing the next generation of community leaders. Over 100 young people have graduated as Young Advocates since Y ACT was launched in 2000.
Click here to visit the Y ACT website.
Choose Action
Changemakers has come together with four leading youth organisations - YouthNet UK, Youth Action Network, Student Volunteering England and Worldwide Volunteering - to form the Choose Action Alliance.
Choose Action aims to develop the infrastructure of the youth sector and young people-involving organisations. Click here to visit the Choose Action website.
Funding
The Big Boost provides grants to help young people to start up projects that will make a lasting difference to them and their communities. Click here to visit the Big Boost website.
We get a lot of calls from people asking about funding. We thought we'd make life easier for you and create a fact sheet telling you everything you ever wanted to know about funding. Click here to download.