Following two months of uncertainty, the immediate future of the UK Youth Parliament (UKYP) has been secured after the National Youth Agency (NYA) agreed to step in to run the body for the next 10 months.
The future of the government’s flagship youth voice initiative was thrown into doubt following the sudden closure in March of the British Youth Council (BYC), which had been its host body for more than a decade.
The BYC, a pillar of the youth sector for 75 years, ran into financial difficulties following the loss of several funding streams including a £70,000 a year deal with the Body Shop. It won a £750,000 two-year contract from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to run the UKYP from April 2023 to March 2025.
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