Britain's future depends on empowering the next generation with the skills, knowledge and confidence to engage in society today.
Young Citizens is an education charity working in primary and secondary schools across the UK to help educate, inspire and equip the active citizens of tomorrow.
We provide immersive experiences that build every young persons’ citizenship skills and robust resources that help educators in schools and beyond engage young people in the complex issues of today.
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 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.
Programme Highlights
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
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.
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.