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We run lots of projects and events for young islanders across the Scottish islands.
Latest news
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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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Young Islanders Network Housing Challenge – Interim report 2024
This interim report contains the findings (to date) of the Young Islanders Network (YIN) Housing Challenge. While the challenge is still open to submissions from interested participants, this interim report highlights some of the invaluable views from young people between the ages of 12-25 years old across all the island local authorities in Scotland. The…
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Casting our minds back to the Youth Scotland Big Ideas weekend, young people from across Scotland joined together for a weekend of fun.
Working together in teams, the participants created their Ideal Youth Club and it was a great insight into what young people feel is important about their youth club and the spaces they offer.
Take a peek at this great video, you might even recognise a few Young Islanders Network faces!
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👀Check out what we did when we had our fun filled and jam packed residential weekend in the Isle of Skye!
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There were friendships made, adventures had and great discussions held over the weekend. We were delighted to be joined by young people from Barra, Lewis, Shetland, Arran and Tiree. As well as meeting up with young people from Skye and Raasay too!
A big thank you to Tom Carbon Neutral Islands – Raasay, Artemis Scottish Rural Action and Ben Team Otter Broadford for giving up your time on Saturday to spend with our groups who visited you.
Another big thank you to Katie from Barra at Western Isles Youth Services and Sadie Shetland Islands Council for supporting your groups to come along and making the long journey, and to our Youth Scotland colleagues Stewart, Josh and Michele for also supporting young people to attend.
A final very big thank you to Francesco and Megan from Scottish Islands Team and to Derek and Pat from Skills Development Scotland for travelling to Skye to deliver some very thought provoking and engaging workshops and for sticking around over the weekend to join in.
Thank you to all the young people who wholeheartedly took part and who made the whole weekend a great joy! 🤩
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⭐️ Well done to S1 pupil at the Nicolson Institute Samuel who got the highest score, at the Youth work week event, in our Guess the Islands game and they designed this cool figure! We will be in touch to get your YIN t-shirt to you! 👏
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