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iWill Week 2025 is coming! #WhatDoYouStandFor?
Throughout #iWill Week, running from Monday 17th to Friday 21st November, each day will highlight a distinct theme. These include truth, dignity, justice, community, and joy..
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Digital Youth Work Conference
Join us in Edinburgh on 10th February. This year the theme for Safer Internet Day is Smart tech, Safe choices – Exploring the safe and responsible use of AI.

Youth Work Manifesto
The manifesto sets out three national commitments Scotland must make to ensure every young person can thrive through access to high-quality youth work. Together, they represent the foundation of a stronger, fairer youth work system: guaranteed by law, universally accessible, and sustained by investment.

The Link Magazine 2025
The latest edition of The Link shines a light on how youth work across Scotland is creating safer spaces and stronger futures for young people.

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Could you be GWT's next Volunteer Trustee?
Generations Working Together (GWT) is seeking an enthusiastic, committed, dependable and proactive volunteer trustee with either a human resources, marketing and communications, youth work or environmental background.
  • Date:  23 July, 2025

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Girlguiding to Unveil 72 Exciting New Badges
Girlguiding, the UK’s largest youth organisation dedicated completely to girls, has today launched 72 new badges offering even more amazing opportunities for girls aged 4-18 to grow in confidence, learn new skills, have fun and adventure, and to know they can do anything.
  • Topic:  Active Youth Work, Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  22 July, 2025

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The Social Care Career Options Tool
A new online resource for people looking to join or advance their careers in Scotland's social care sector. It’s easy to use, mobile friendly and covers over 75 roles across adult and children’s social care.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  22 July, 2025

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Young Women Demand Steering Group
The Young Women's Movement is looking for 12 young women or non-binary people, aged 16-30, to join a new voluntary steering group for their Young Women Demand project - a two-year initiative, funded by Joseph Rowntree Charitable Foundation, aimed at engaging young women in the democratic process, fostering political literacy, and developing leadership skills.
  • Topic:  Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  22 July, 2025

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Recruitment to the National Safeguarders Panel is Open Now!
Do you care passionately about children and young people and their rights being respected? Are you friendly and can you communicate well with children and young people? If so, then you may be interested in becoming a Safeguarder. Children First is currently recruiting Safeguarders in the Children's Hearings System across various regions. The deadline for applications is 11th August.
  • Topic:  Child Protection, Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  16 July, 2025

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The Scottish Mental Illness Stigma Study
See Me's Scottish Mental Illness Stigma Study is a first of its kind piece of research for Scotland, exploring where and how people with more complex mental illnesses face stigma and discrimination and the impact this has.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  16 July, 2025

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The Woodland Trust - Free Tree Packs
The Woodland Trust want to make sure everybody in the UK has the chance to plant a tree. So they’re giving away hundreds of thousands of trees to youth and community groups. Applications  are now open for tree packs to be delivered in November.  Applications will close on 28th August.
  • Topic:  Learning for Sustainability
  • Date:  16 July, 2025

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Young People Not in Education, Employment or Training in the UK
Estimates from January to March 2025 of young people (aged 16 to 24 years) who are not in education, employment or training, by age and sex.
  • Topic:  Education, Skills & Employability
  • Date:  16 July, 2025

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Understanding Drivers of Recent Trends in Young People’s Mental Health
This paper provides an overview of research commissioned by Youth Futures Foundation and carried out by a team from the University of Manchester and UCL examining the drivers of the decrease in mental health among young people.
  • Topic:  Health & Wellbeing
  • Date:  15 July, 2025

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Climate Action Leadership Programme
The Climate Action Leadership Programme equips young people with the leadership skills and climate change knowledge needed to take effective action. Applications to join the next iteration of Climate Action Leadership Programme are open until midnight on 29th July.
  • Topic:  Learning for Sustainability
  • Date:  15 July, 2025

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Money - How young people use it, plan for it and how it affects their future
Young Scot has four exciting event opportunities happening across Scotland in August themed around young people's relationship to money and finances that we think young people you work with aged 16 to 25 might be interested in.
  • Topic:  Rights, Participation & Volunteering
  • Date:  14 July, 2025

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FIRST STAGES - Programme for Young and Emerging Songwriters
Find out more about a holistic music programme from Moniack Mhor that will nurture young and emerging songwriters through workshops, online sessions, and a development programme.
  • Topic:  Arts
  • Date:  14 July, 2025

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