Opportunities for young peoplehttp://wnyp.org The Office of the Children's Commissioner and the Diana Award are proud to announce a collaboration to set up a Children and Young People Advisory Group for England. The Children's Commissioner, Maggie Atkinson, makes sure that adults in charge listen to young people's views.http://wnyp.org/757256/join-the-childrens-commissioners-children-and-young-people/ The Youth of Today is recruiting a team of Youth Fund Leaders to lead their efforts on a major grant-giving project. They are looking for people with curiosity, enthusiasm, dedication and drive to be part of their team. Does this sound like you? "Being a member of the Youth Leadership Team has been a really exciting andhttp://wnyp.org/895332/member-of-youth-leadership-team-for-the-youth-of-today/ Create a photograph, film or comic that represents what the recession means to you and you could win £1000 and have your work judged by the MD of Saatchi Design Ashley Goodall, Turner Prize nominee Yinka Shonibare and Comic illustrator Jamie McKelvie.http://wnyp.org/96644/what-does-the-recession-mean-to-you/ Edge, a national educational charity, will deliver a manifesto on practical and vocational education to the major political parties on March 16th.http://wnyp.org/868694/tell-the-education-minister-what-you-think/ The Young Achievers Trust is searching for six enthusiastic and motivated young people aged 18 to 25 to join our Board of Trustees.http://wnyp.org/894666/trustee-young-achievers-trust/ Do you think young people get a fair deal when it comes to media coverage? No? ...neither do we, and we need your help to change the future!http://wnyp.org/2443/respect-young-members/ The UK Government just published it's first Child Internet Safety Strategy. We've put it online as a document you can add comments to - and we want to know what you think of it. Visit the link and spend anything from 2 minutes to 2 hours reading and adding your views, ideas and insights.http://wnyp.org/994938/feedback-on-child-internet-safety-strategy/ At Lifetracks, we know that the best career advice doesn't always come from a parent or a teacher, a careers advisor or even (dare we say it) a website. We can also learn a lot from people who've gone through stuff before us and be inspired by our friends.http://wnyp.org/73353/share-your-best-piece-of-career-advice/ LILAC is a brand new 3 year project for which A National Voice has received funding from the National Lottery BIG Young Persons Fund. LILAC focuses on participation and making sure looked-afer young people are involved in decisions relating to both their individual care and the policies and practices of the service that looks after them. It's about empowering care-experienced young people to train people who work directly with children or young people in care and to assess how well services listen to and involve children and young people in care.http://wnyp.org/874393/lilac-leading-improvements-for-lookedafter-children/ As part of NCVYS's Big Lottery funded Young Partners Project, we will, over the next two years, be recruiting nine Young Facilitators aged 16-25 who will work for £10 per hour for 10 hours a week on the project based in each of the nine regional government areas. We are now recruiting three young facilitators from North West, West Midlands and London areas.http://wnyp.org/99327/young-facilitators-for-national-youth-forum/ Gap-year students with a lust for adventure and a passion for environmental science are urged to apply for the last few places for The British Schools Exploring Society’s Extreme Arctic expedition to Svalbard this spring.http://wnyp.org/897772/artic-adventure-of-a-lifetime/ The Look, Listen Change consortium is looking for young people to advise us on the development of a brand new programme.http://wnyp.org/824729/are-you-ready-to-look-listen-and-change/ http://wnyp.org/83838/magistrates-court-mock-trial-competition-200910/ Are you disabled? About to start university for the first time? if so, we want to hear from you.http://wnyp.org/622769/wanted-disabled-student-diarists-for-bbc-website/