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Thursday Feb 11, 2010

Take a new challenge

I’ve found all the news about the lack of opportunities for young people recently quite depressing, so I thought I’d let you know about a couple of interesting things for young people I’ve come across recently.

The first is called The Challenge and it’s a three-week scheme that takes place in the summer after year 11.

The first week is residential and you do crazy things like abseil down a 100 foot wall. The second week is a team challenge where you get training to help do things like run a gym or write and perform a play. The third week is the biggie – this is where you design your own challenge and come up with something that everyone in your local neighbourhood will be talking about.

It runs every Summer and they’re looking for more people to sign up – the best bit is you only pay a few quid to do it. Check out their site to find out more.

The second is a bit closer to home… YouthNet (the charity that pays for this lovely site to run) is looking for some rather wonderful young people to join our Respect? Campaign.

The campaign is all about making sure young people are fairly represented in the media. So if you’ve ever read a story about ‘Binge drinking Britain’ or ‘Young yobs to blame for everything’ and winced, now’s the time to do something about it.

Past members of the campaign have been interviewed for TV and newspaper stories and have even met with politicians to air their views, so there’s some pretty cool opportunities to get your opinions heard.

So if you’re looking for a new challenge that will really make a difference, get more information and download an application form here. The deadline is 21 February 2010

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