Brilliant first year for We Are What We Do’s Young Speakers

In February we celebrated a brilliant first year for the We Are What We Do Young Speaker’s Programme.

Our first year’s Young Speakers are 16-19 year olds from 6th form schools and colleges in London and the North West who we’ve helped to develop the skills and confidence to give We Are What We Do presentations and run creative campaigns and workshops based on content from our books in primary and secondary schools around the country.

We’re absolutely delighted to announce that in Year 1, 200 Young Speakers gave a total of 593 presentations in schools and community groups inspiring more than 52,000 children to use simple everyday actions to make a difference to social and environmental problems affecting their local and global communities.

This year, we’ll be recruiting another 200 Young Speakers from schools and colleges in the North West, the Midlands, Bristol and London. The project is funded by the youth volunteering charity, v and the Aldridge Foundation. For further information, visit the Young Speakers website youngspeakers.wearewhatwedo.org or email Nicole.vandeneijnde@wearewhatwedo.org