Charity running new training on campaigning and media training

Charity UK Youth are running a series of training days for youth workers on campaigning and media training.

The training days, entitled Developing and Promoting a Campaign with Young People, are being run throughout April, May and June as part of UK Youth's Hearing Unheard Voices Project.

The day will be centred around UK Youth's new Campaign Challenge toolkit, with a morning session on campaigning leading into media training in the afternoon. The toolkit will provide resources and activity ideas which can be taken away with you as well as an outline on how to incorporate accreditation into campaigning.

The toolkit focuses on equipping young people with the skills and resources to be able to start a campaign. The training will equip you as the service provider with a better understanding of what campaigning is; along with ideas on how to generate publicity and approaching the media. This will enable you to go away and plan your first campaign with your group of young people.

Each delegate will receive a free copy of the toolkit to take away with them. At the end of this training, participants will have gained knowledge on:

• Understanding of what campaigning is and what it can achieve
• Developing a group culture for campaigning within your group
• What is essential and important for campaigning
• Planning a campaign: strategy, timing, expertise and budgets
• A detailed look into how new social media can have an impact in campaigning
• How to implement a media strategy into the campaigning
• A clear understanding of how to use the Campaign Challenge Toolkit accreditations

Hearing Unheard Voices is aimed at young people aged 11-18, with a particular focus on those who are rarely heard such as homeless/ carers/refugees/ LGBT/ BME/ disabled/ parents and NEET's. The training days are running as follows:

• Wednesday 21 April 2010- York
• Monday 26th April 2010- Bristol
• Thursday 6th May 2010- London
• Tuesday 18th May 2010- Birmingham
• Monday 24th May 2010- Manchester
• Monday 7th June 2010- Durham

They will run from 10:00am - 4:00 pm and will cost £50 + VAT per person.

Click here to download the booking form at UK Youth or contact Charmaine Simpson on 0845 862 0432, email yaa@ukyouth.org, for group bookings of six more.