Legal Education

Mock Trials 2023/24: Applications Now Open!

Secondary schools and colleges! Looking for an enrichment opportunity for the next academic year? Discover the Bar Mock Trial Competition.
Vacancies

We're hiring! Partnerships Coordinator and Learning Resources Officer

Apply now to join our team of dedicated citizenship education champions
Increasing Impact

Our new strategy: Lighting the Spark

Young Citizens launches its 5-Year strategy to help even more children and young people benefit from quality, inspiring citizenship education and civic learning experiences
Youth-led social action

Summer social action for Year 6 pupils

Calling all Primary Schools! This summer, we want Year 6 pupils to leave a legacy with a Make a Difference Challenge project
Teaching resources

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Discover over 100 citizenship and PSHE lessons and assemblies completely free!

Britain's future depends on empowering the next generation with the skills, knowledge and confidence to engage in society today.

Young Citizens is a citizenship education charity that informs, equips and inspires children and young people across the UK to be active citizens.

From libraries of teaching resources to interactive programmes, we provide immersive learning that builds every child’s and young person’s citizenship skills. We help educators of all kinds offer citizenship learning that is relevant and equips their young people to navigate the complex societal issues of today.

We also work with institutional partners nationally and internationally to develop thinking, practice and new frameworks that help us strengthen civic engagement and education in the 21st century.

In our thirty-year history, we have mobilised more than 300,000 young people to take social action, engaged over 150,000 young people in understanding the law and the legal system and reached over 1 million young people with our citizenship programmes and classroom resources.

Our teachers' resources

Access our free library of 100+ lessons, assemblies and other flexible citizenship and PSHE resources by becoming a school subscriber.

80%

of secondary schools have used our programmes or teaching materials.

300,000

school children have taken part in our social action programmes since 2008.

15,420

primary teachers have been trained by our team over the past decade.

Programme Highlights

Mock Trials

📢 Applications now open for the Bar Mock Trial Competition 23/24 📢 The Mock Trial Competitions are our longest-running...

Make a Difference Challenge

The Make a Difference Challenge is a child-led social action programme that empowers some of our youngest citizens. It...

SMSC Quality Mark

Helping your school achieve excellence in SMSC Whether you are just starting out, restarting and rethinking your approach, or...

The Charity

We see that young people UK-wide are able to become informed, empowered and active citizens. We do this by providing a range of quality programmes and school resources that help teachers embed the difficult issues of today and build citizenship skills from primary up to secondary and college years.

6000

schools engaged with our work in the past year

800

volunteer gave their time and expertise in the past year

600,000

children and young people benefited from our work in the past year

Support Us

Whether a volunteer or a donor, your support can help us continue to create informed, empowered and confident young citizens. Interested in helping shape one of our key themes or issues as a sector leader? Be sure to read more about our partnerships.