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We run lots of projects and events for young islanders across the Scottish islands.
Latest news
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You had your say! Read the YIN Housing Challenge Report here
Since 2022 young people from across the islands have told us what is important to them in their island community; the top two recurring issues were Transport and Housing. Read our report to find out more on Housing in the islands from the young people’s perspective. The Young Islanders Network created a challenge, inviting young…
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Skye’s the limit!
Young Islanders from Shetland, Lewis, Barra, Tiree and Arran gathered in the beautiful surroundings of Portree, Isle of Skye from the 1st to 4th of November. A long awaited Young Islanders Network residential weekend offered a fantastic group of people from the ages of 12 to 25 years old, from across the islands to get…
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Young Islanders at Big Ideas 2024!
On Saturday 24th August, Young Islanders from Shetland, Orkney, Tiree and Lewis attended Youth Scotland’s 2024 Big Ideas Weekend where we also celebrated Youth Scotland’s 90th birthday! Big Ideas weekend 2024 During the last weekend in August, over 220 young people and youth workers came together for the biggest weekend in youth work, meeting friends…
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Guess Who’s Back…? (At HebCelt Festival 2024)
(…No, it’s not Slim Shady!) It’s the Young Islanders OUR FANTASTIC CONTENT CREATORS Following on from HebCelt 2023, we were delighted that Sophie returned as a YIN Content creator team leader in 2024 (https://yin.scot/young-islanders-get-involved-at-hebcelt-2023/) Sophie joined us in 2023 as a Content Creator for HebCelt. This year she returned taking on more of a leadership…
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Paul’s Island Hopping Easter
Young islander Paul from Lewis joined in to visit some youth clubs in Tiree, Cumbrae and Arran over the Easter holidays. Paul accompanied his mum, Naomi, the Senior Development Worker for the Young Islanders Network who was undertaking the tour as part of planned work to engage with Young Islanders across Scotland, and we thought…
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Young Islanders latest ministerial engagements
It has been a busy start to 2024 for the Young Islanders Network, with three separate opportunities for ministerial engagement to date. VISIT TO SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT AND THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE We kicked off the year with the Scottish Rural and Islands Youth Parliament (SRIYP) visit to Holyrood in January. Thanks to the amazing team at…
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👀What a year 2024 has been! 😍
🟠So much to reflect on from opening the year with a visit to Holyrood as part of the SRIYP, then meeting with the Cabinet Secretary for Transport in Uist before heading to Aviemore for the Rural Housing Scotland conference. Another chance to meet decision makers at the NHS Western Isles annual review too.
💙April brought an islands tour to Tiree, Arran and Cumbrae and then summer brought with it the chance to get involved at the Royal Highland Show, HebCelt Festival and then on to Big Ideas Weekend.
🟠We had young people sharing the spotlight at the first Outer Hebrides COP event! Young people from Barra involved in environmental work in Mingulay and then a gathering in person in Skye. This brought together young people from Shetland, Lewis, Barra, Tiree, Arran, Raasay and Skye.
💙We are delighted to wrap the year up with our Housing Challenge report and look forward to 2025 and the adventures, opportunities and new connections this may bring!
If you want to be involved in 2025, why not get in touch! You can message us here or email: yin@youthscotland.org.uk 📣
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📣 In support for the young people in our
island communities who are part of the
farming and crofting communities, the
Young Islanders Network provide the
following statement:
The Young Islanders Network stands with the thousands of farmers across Scotland (1), England (2), Wales (3) and Northern Ireland( 4)protesting the inheritance tax changes that risk harming many family farms.
Whether it be 70,000 as estimated by The Country Land and Business Association or
500 as the Treasury estimates, these are all
invaluable parts of our communities and societies that we cannot just let be
financially ruined by these changes.
We understand that Westminster is saying
that “the vast majority of farmers will be
totally unaffected.(5) However, family
farms are integral to our island communities, they are more than just numbers.
These families don’t deserve to have their
livelihoods destroyed, whether it’s one
hundred or a thousand it is not justifiable. Every family counts.
Farmers are the bedrock of our society,
without them no one eats, they do an
incredible service to our nations, and we
should be supporting them and thanking
them for what they do. Not punishing
families that are trying to build and sustain
their livelihoods.
We call on the UK Government to
reconsider their plans to bring in the new
inheritance on farmers.
🟠 Written and supported by Young Islanders
Kaydence, Sapphire, Emma, Sophie and
Andy, Nymeria and Maria.
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