Throughout December the team and supporters of YEUK campaigned hard to raise the profile of the free Youth Friendly badge and encourage UK business to become Youth Friendly.
We spent the month travelling the UK talking to young people, employers and educators. We built up new partnerships and raised the YEUK profile higher than ever before. The month long campaign finished in our home town of Corby with a free Connection Event, where we invited local employers, youth organisations and young people to get together and connect.
Over 300 UK employers applied for the Youth Friendly badge which was fantastic!! These UK businesses are clearly showing their commitment to young people and to helping us tackle youth unemployment.
MP Steps Up:
Skills Minister Matthew Hancock MP also signed up his department to the Youth Friendly badge and even achieved the Gold Standard. Matthew provided us with an interview for our December e-Magazine, which you can read via the site.
Skills and Enterprise Minister Matthew Hancock said, “I am pleased to support Youth Employment as it is important that careers information is available to everyone to enable them to make decisions on their next steps.”
WIN
Alongside the campaign was a free draw for 16-24 year old to win a day’s work experience, this could be spent with; Matthew Hancock MP, Charlotte Hill CEO of UK Youth or Northampton Saints Rugby Club (naturally accompanied by our CEO)!! Young people simply needed to register on the YEUK website to be entered. The draw has attracted a great number of young people and youth organisations. Winners will be drawn on the 13th of January.
Worth noting that many of the young entrants have expressed an interested in joining our youth ambassador programme. Watch this space!
Supporters
Skills Councils, Corporates, and one-man businesses joined our campaign to make a Youth Friendly UK. To each of you, on behalf of YEUK and the young people we serve we would like to say a big THANK YOU!
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Our work does not stop there; we want every UK employer to support young people in some way. The free Youth Friendly badge is a way to demonstrate all that good stuff, from helping out in a school to offering work experience. Every little counts!
All of our Youth Friendly badge holders and YEUK members will be listed on our database so that young people can start to see who wears the Youth Friendly colours.
Sign Up NOW
You can apply for the badge at anytime be clicking on https://www.youthemployment.org.uk/youth-friendly-badge-cc/ and you can also download the #YouthFrienldyUK campaign information via https://www.youthemployment.org.uk/youth-friendly-december-campaign/
