Participation in Practice: Stop the Youth Quake MP lobbying campaign

15 April 2011 1 min read Youth Work Participation

Fifty young people from across the country visited the Houses of Parliament at the end of March to lobby MPs about the effect that cuts are having on youth volunteering opportunities.

The event was organised by Youth Action Network as part of its Stop the Youth Quake campaign, which aims to draw attention to the lack of national and local funding for youth volunteering beyond March 2011.

According to Youth Action Network, 90 per cent of these opportunities are likely to disappear as a result of government cuts.

Faizan Tassawar, 19, a Vinvolved volunteer from Woking in Surrey, was among the young people to take part in the event. He was part of a delegation of young people who met Labour's shadow children's minister Toby Perkins. "There were around eight of us from Surrey who met him in his office," says Faizan. "I told him about the work I'd done through the Vinvolved project over the past couple of years and explained why I thought it was so important.

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