Two of the longest-established youth sector representative bodies have merged.
The joining up of UK Youth and Ambition - originally known as the National Organisation of Girls Clubs and the National Association of Boys' Clubs respectively - ends decades of speculation. It comes just two years after Ambition, which was known as Clubs for Young People until 2012, merged with the Confederation of Heads of Young People's Services (Chyps), the organisation for local authority youth service leaders.
Ambition also merged with the now defunct National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) last year. A number of NCVYS programmes were also taken on by UK Youth, which only last year held talks with the National Youth Agency over sharing backroom functions.
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