Calling all Young Advisors... Do you want to grow your CV? Get extra training? Inform the direction of the National Charity? Well here's your chance. We are looking to recruit new volunteer Trustees to join the board. Click here to find out more!.

Young Advisors have been successful in making it into the final version of the new Communities in Control White Paper.  Launched by Hazel Blears this month, the paper describes how Communities and Local Government will be helping the Young Advisors movement grow and establish a system for Young Advisors to have direct access to the Secretary of State of Communities and Local Government to give a young person's perspective as policy is being formulated and implemented.  This is an outstanding opportunity for Young Advisors nationally, and a real opportunity to help make sure there is yet more ways to help young people make a difference locally, regionally and nationally. Watch this space to see how you can get involved!

Congratulations to the Middlesbrough Young Advisors who have just been awarded the Barclays Champion in the Community Award for their outstanding work! Great job for all of the young people working at Just4Youth

Well done to the Thornhill Young Advisors who have just launched their WaterWalkerz project after getting funding of £1,345.  The Young Advisors did extensive consultation with young people and the wider community about the kind of activities they would like to see put on, and this water version of zorbing came up top!  Looks like great fun, think we might all be popping to Southampton to give it a bash! Don't know what waterwalking is? Click here to see!

Young Advisor Mentors from Walsall are the first to receive our new specially designed training package.  The Mentors, who are all Theme Managers within the NDC, took time out from their busy day jobs to participate in exercises as diverse as Personality Profiling, Reminiscing and Open Space Technology.  Harjinder, the two Bobs, Steve, Dave, Jayne and Michelle will all receive a certificate acknowledging their hard work and commitment to their YAs.  Trina, our new Development Officer for the Midlands helped deliver the training - and would be happy to arrange further sessions for any teams on her patch - just mail her at trina@youngadvisors.org.uk

Young Advisors have been invited by Beverly Hughes MP to attend a round table discussion on the development of the National Institue of Youth Leadership. Joining colleagues from across the country, this will present our network with another opportunity to bring local innovation to the national platform.

Young Advisors from the YAP team in Portsmouth have not only been nominated for the CHANGEit Award - Recognising, supporting and rewarding young campaigners, but have just secured £15,000 for their Butterfly Drive Project, a long standing campaign to regenerate land that once hosted play equipment for children and young people back to its former glory. See more here! Well done to all the team!

Young Advisors have appeared in the Communities and Local Government Staff Magazine as a cutting edge way to guarantee the participation of children and young people. There are interviews with teams from Manchester, Portsmouth and Middlesbrough, as well as some great photos of Southwark and Knowsley Young Advisors. The magazine has a really wide readership within central government, and we hope it will be yet another way for you to celebrate your successes! Download the Wecan Magazine here!

The Charity has recruited three new Development Officers to help extend the support offered to YAs and Leads across the country. The new team are Danni Doran from Devon, helping to look after our Southern projects, Trina Brooks from Nottingham helping all those in the Midlands, and finally Ste Reddie from Sefton who be showing our Northern teams how he can help! The standard of applications were very high, and a real testament to the quality of Young Advisors working round the country!! The team all start on 1st May. Check out some of the photos by clicking here!

Congratulations to YAP and all of the Southern Young Advisors for putting on an outstanding southern regions conference. The South East Neighbourhood Training and Resource Centre worked hard with the YAs over the last 2 months to put on an outstanding, and well attended networking event. Check out some of the photos by clicking here!

The Big Lottery Fund (ITV) has cash up to £50k for environment projects, in each of ITV's 18 regions. Application packs from www.peoplesmillions.org.uk or tel 08450 101 112