CAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT - UK YOUTH VOICE

POSITIVE ABOUT YOUTH

March 9, 2010

UKYV members are volunteers that work with UK Youth to help shape services for young people. UKYV are currently planning their annual national youth conference, which is all about encouraging participation and allowing young people to have their voices heard on the issues they care about. The conference will feature UKYV’s campaign “Positive About Youth” – which is also UK Youth’s centenary message.

UKYV are passionate about changing the negative way the media portrays young people. Our aim is to flood the press with positive news about young people following events like the HUV launch (13th March) and the UKYV conference (2nd -4th July), which will challenge the stereotypes around young people. UKYV plan to rally support in their local areas by encouraging young people to contact their local press with positive news stories and obtain positive quotes from adults.

Campaign Message:

UKYV would like to see more of a balance of positive news and negative news and ideally see a change of attitude from adults and the media about the way they view young people. The hope is to outnumber negative stories with positive stories, so that adults have a more accurate, less stereotypical view of young people.

Click here to see our Voices Magazine

How you can get involved in the campaign:

UKYV are creating a one off magazine for the Hearing Unheard Voices launch which will be filled with positive news stories, and will feature some of the Hearing Unheard voices campaign messages as well.

Contact local press with your positive stories so adults can see that young people are making a positive contribution to society – keep a record on the Facebook campaign page!
Make a pledge about why you are positive about youth on the Century website www.positiveaboutyouth.org