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  • Housing Roadshow!

    Housing Roadshow!

    This year, we have partnered with Argyll Community Housing Association to take a roadshow to Argyll & Bute.  We’ll be visiting the islands to deliver workshops and hear from young people across primary and secondary schools.  What is important in your place, and what makes the community yours?  What unique challenges are you facing and what could be improved?  We will…

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  • A Year of island identity and stories

    A Year of island identity and stories

    Over the next year, Young Islanders Network will be working with young people across Scotland’s islands to gather stories from as many of Scotland’s 93 inhabited islands as possible.  We want to hear what shapes your island’s culture, identity, and heritage.  Maybe there’s a story people tell about your island. It could be a festival, sporting event, club, committee, tradition or place…

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  • Take Part in the Ferry Travel Challenge!

    Take Part in the Ferry Travel Challenge!

    Following the success of our previous work on the transport challenge and ferry safety challenge which helped to shape the National Islands Plan, we are continuing our mission to have young islanders heard voices.  Since the introduction of the Under 22s discounted ferry, we know that not all young islanders benefit from this.  Mack, our Transport Rep and co-opted member of the…

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  • Island Voice Drop In Zoom

    Island Voice Drop In Zoom

    Are you a member of a youth voice platform or pupil parliament?  Or do you live on one of the smaller islands with no youth voice group?  Join us on our monthly lunchtime drop-in sessions on Zoom.  Meet new friends, explore opportunities to get involved with YIN online and in person and most importantly, let us now what’s important to your…

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  • Mental Health Champions 

    Mental Health Champions 

    YIN has partnered with Change Mental Health to co-produce a training programme that is island proofed.  With over five decades of supporting people across Scotland, Change Mental Health is rooted in the reality of what people go through and informed by lived experience.  We’re teaming up to co-produce an islands training programme for Mental Health Champions. There will be opportunities to be part of the design consultation, or you might…

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  • YIN Challenges

    YIN Challenges

    Take part in our Icons Challenge and Islander Challenge.  Are you a group or school looking for an accredited award that gives young people the opportunity to exercise their right in decision making?  Our challenges are fun, flexible and adaptable, suitable from age 8.  They take around 5 hours to complete and explore what it is like to be an islander,…

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