Who are YAN?

Our vision and aims:

Our Vision

Youth Action Network’s vision is for all young people to have the opportunity to participate in youth action volunteering and develop their own solutions to community needs.

Youth Action Network wants all young people to have an opportunity to get involved in youth action locally. We want to provide young people with role models who are able to inspire, support and develop them. We also want every organisation interested in growing their youth participation or youth action approaches to have access to training, networking, support and inspiration and to be able to access these without the need for national travel.

At the heart of everything we do are the nine principles of youth action; taken together these nine elements are what makes youth action such a brilliant way of working with young people – they are a recipe for success.

Our Key Strategic Aims:

1. Embedding knowledge and practice of the nine principles of youth action.
2. Promoting youth action practice in any group
3. Affecting policy
4. Sustainability