Basic

Family name

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Given name(s)

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Organisation

British Youth Council

Acronym

BYC

Mailing address

CAN Mezzanine London Bridge 1 Downstream Building 1 London Bridge

City

London, SE1 9BG

Country

United Kingdom

Office phone

+44 0845 458 1489

Fax number

+44 0845 565 496

Website

http://www.byc.org.uk

Organisation

Working languages

English

Publications

BYC News
Voices- The Newsletter for local youth councils
Youth Index- A monthly publication looking at young people in Britain
The Local Action Series of best practice guides

Brief history

The British Youth Council was established in 1948 by the UK Government as the representative body for young people. It became a charity in the 1960s. Today, it is still run by young people for young people.

Objectives

The British Youth Council is the national youth council for the United Kingdom and seeks to represent the views of young people throughout the UK. It is an umbrella organisation, made up of young people in regional and national youth organisations and local youth councils. BYC aims to empower young people and demonstrates its commitment by being a youth-led organisation.

Activities

BYC represents the interests of young people to government at UK, European and international level. It organises campaigns for equality for young people, promotes the participation of young people in public life, offers training and publications, works on the development of youth councils at local, regional and national level.

Structure

BYC has a Chair, two Vice-Chairs and 8 members of the Management Committee. They are all elected annually at BYC's AGM. BYC has a professional staff team of 6, headed by a Chief Executive (Secretary General). The main policy making body is BYC Council. Each BYC member is entitled to send a number of delegates to Council. The exact number will depend on the number of members they have.

Membership

Membership type

Full member

Organisation type

NYC

History

User for

47 weeks 3 days