Teaching resources

COVID and the Economy

How should Government money be spent in a time of crisis? Let your class decide with our new lesson plan.

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Teaching resources

Climate Action and Mock Parliament Debate

Use our free resources to unpick with pupils how COP26 will impact legislation - or run your own Mock Parliament debate this term.

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Teaching resources

Looking for Go-Givers?

Our primary library of 100s of citizenship and PSHE lessons and assemblies are now here, on our main website, under Teaching Resources.

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Social Action

Make a Difference in a Day

Created for teachers who want to deliver a drop-down day with children focusing on making a difference to a community space that’s important to them

Make a Difference in a Day

The Law & Public Legal Education

See that students know their rights, understand their responsibilities and can navigate confidently through the legal system, knowing when and where to ask for help and further advice.

SmartLaw

Britain's future depends on empowering the next generation to become active citizens.

Young Citizens is an education charity working in primary and secondary schools to help educate, inspire and equip the active citizens of tomorrow. In our thirty-year history, we have mobilised more than 300,000 young people to take social action and reached over 1 million young people with our citizenship programmes and resources.

Our teachers' resources

Access our library of 100+ lessons, assemblies and other flexible citizenship and PSHE resources by becoming a school subscriber, available for free 2021/22 thanks to the Pears Foundation.

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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

More of what we do

Mock Trials

The Mock Trial Competitions are our longest-running active learning experiences. Since 1991, we’ve provided unparalleled exposure to the judicial...

Make a Difference Challenge

Making a difference to society The Make a Difference Challenge is a child-led social action programme that empowers some...

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.

8,800

schools interventions were made by us in the past year.

2,000

volunteers – including barristers, solicitors magistrates and judges – supported us in the past year.

370,000

children and young people benefited from our work in the last 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.