Young people

Actor Shonagh Marie: ‘Coming into care as a teenager was a whole different kind of trauma’
Actor Shonagh Marie in Bullet Tongue
Arts

Actor Shonagh Marie: ‘Coming into care as a teenager was a whole different kind of trauma’

Shonagh Marie was encouraged as a young actor by The Big House theatre company. Now she's giving something back
NEET numbers fall but young people still face jobs crisis: 'This is not a turning point'
people walking
NEETs

NEET numbers fall but young people still face jobs crisis: 'This is not a turning point'

'Where do kids get their musical instruments from if mum and dad can’t afford it?'
Kyle Osborne and the KO Quartet from Tomorrow's Warriors
Young people

'Where do kids get their musical instruments from if mum and dad can’t afford it?'

Munya Chawawa and Jack Rooke: 'How can we make sure new theatre makers aren’t all Oxbridge people?'
Comedy

Munya Chawawa and Jack Rooke: 'How can we make sure new theatre makers aren’t all Oxbridge people?'

Jordan Stephens: 'You can't ban social media without giving young people anywhere else to go'
Music

Jordan Stephens: 'You can't ban social media without giving young people anywhere else to go'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
'I’m in spaces where I’m the only girl and feel like I have to outshine everyone to make a point'
Girl Grind UK
Employment

'I’m in spaces where I’m the only girl and feel like I have to outshine everyone to make a point'

'Everyone wants a job and it's a nightmare': What it's like to be a NEET young person in Britain
wren hill
Youth unemployment

'Everyone wants a job and it's a nightmare': What it's like to be a NEET young person in Britain

Hip hop star Loyle Carner is cooking up solutions for young people with ADHD at Chilli Con Carner
Loyle Carner with people from his cooking school Chilli Con Carner
Neurodiversity

Hip hop star Loyle Carner is cooking up solutions for young people with ADHD at Chilli Con Carner

Inside Holiday Club: the summer school helping NEET young people start creative careers
Holiday Culb magazine
Creative jobs

Inside Holiday Club: the summer school helping NEET young people start creative careers

Maya Jama: 'Breaking into the creative industries shouldn’t come down to who you know'
Maya Jama
Employment

Maya Jama: 'Breaking into the creative industries shouldn’t come down to who you know'

NEETs crisis: How did one million young people fall off the career ladder?
Shuab Gamote
NEETs

NEETs crisis: How did one million young people fall off the career ladder?

Amelia Dimoldenberg: How can young people thrive if there are no places left for them to grow?
Amelia Dimoldenberg
Amelia Dimoldenberg

Amelia Dimoldenberg: How can young people thrive if there are no places left for them to grow?

'I've done more for my community through boxing than I ever did in a police uniform'
Dan O’Sullivan, chair of the Dagenham Amateur Boxing Club.
Social Justice

'I've done more for my community through boxing than I ever did in a police uniform'

The UK can’t achieve growth and lower poverty with a million young people locked out of opportunity
young people with skateboards sat around on phones
Richard Rigby

The UK can’t achieve growth and lower poverty with a million young people locked out of opportunity

Oobah Butler tackles the housing crisis: 'We’ve become used to the fact that we are screwed'
Oobah Butlet
TV

Oobah Butler tackles the housing crisis: 'We’ve become used to the fact that we are screwed'

There's more to do to protect children from online dangers beyond the social media ban
child on social media
Elizabeth Anderson

There's more to do to protect children from online dangers beyond the social media ban

Leicester Riders: The basketball team taking on knife crime
Sport

Leicester Riders: The basketball team taking on knife crime

Arts education is not an add-on for SEND education. It is the missing piece
teacher with kids doing drama
Lizzie Kitto

Arts education is not an add-on for SEND education. It is the missing piece

Young people are facing a NEET crisis. We cannot let them be plunged into a debt crisis too
young people walking together
Vikki Brownridge

Young people are facing a NEET crisis. We cannot let them be plunged into a debt crisis too

Young people deserve more than a say – they deserve a seat at the table
Stephanie Peacock MP signing the Power of Youth Charter
Stephanie Peacock

Young people deserve more than a say – they deserve a seat at the table

How Britain failed one million NEET young people: 'We're wasting a generation’s talent'
Young people walking in the street
Youth unemployment

How Britain failed one million NEET young people: 'We're wasting a generation’s talent'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
My son lost his life doing the right thing. Now I'm fighting for a better future for young people
Dr Mark Prince
Mark Prince

My son lost his life doing the right thing. Now I'm fighting for a better future for young people

How getting young people into sport could save the UK millions
A boy playing football
Jamie Masraff

How getting young people into sport could save the UK millions

Two million apprenticeships could transform Britain’s left-behind towns – if they're done right
Nicola Stokes

Two million apprenticeships could transform Britain’s left-behind towns – if they're done right

'I'm infuriated that young people don't get a say at elections. The minimum voting age is unfair'
Every adult in England, Scotland and Wales can cast a vote today, making it the biggest vote outside a general election since 1973. election results
Letters

'I'm infuriated that young people don't get a say at elections. The minimum voting age is unfair'