Got an idea that could help young people lead more positive and healthy lives?

The Big Challenge competition is now open to any 16-25 year old who has a big idea for a project or campaign that helps other young people lead more positive and healthy lives.

Applications must focus on one of these 4 areas:
- Drugs, sex and alcohol
- Sustainable living
- Gang culture
- Healthy living

Winners will win a share of the £60,000 prize fund to pay their project costs, along with support and mentoring to carry out their ideas.

The competition closes on January 12th 2009 so THINK BIG and get involved by visiting the website www.bigchallenge.org.uk or getting in touch bigchallenge@unltd.org.uk or 0207 5661129.

edited in hope links will work...

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/HMR...

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Sav...

please if you have a moment sign up to these, and any others you come across - centralisation and shifting of work in the private sector is bad enough, but doing this to the public sector represents a green light for such moves at a time when the Tories are getting research that says councilos should pay people to move from where they are to London, Oxford and Cambridge...

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Hey guys

We set up a flatshare bebo page last year, mainly to help young people find suitable accommodation. It seems to have gone down really well and new members are joining regularly.

With so many students looking for accommodation for going back to uni/college, I thought I would take this opportunity to highlight our page again.

If you would like to look for a flat to share or a mate to share your flat please add a post to our page, the URL is - http://www.bebo.com/Flatshare-flatmate

Please remember your post will be open for everyone to view, so be careful what details you add, (eg no personal info or tel nos). Please add us to your groups to get the word out.

Thank you

Hello STUC Youth
I just signed a petition asking the G8 take urgent action against extreme poverty, and I'm hoping that you'll join me.

Sign the petition now at: http://www.one.org/international/g8

There has been a lot of progress against extreme poverty in recent years, but, as recent headlines about the global food crisis and natural disasters like Cyclone Nargis in Burma will tell you, there is still much to be done.

When we unite with one voice and call upon our leaders to take action, we can and will solve these problems.

Thanks, Andrew Cuthbert

AHH I've not even thought about that! How many motions have you got in? We've got three - and I think I'm talking to the Life Long Learning one - I can't be bothered preparing anything

I may just leave it to lady drink!! It worked last year!!!!

I really need to write my speech for this conference...argh!!

I am helping to spread the word about the biggest online protest against China's occupation of Tibet. Please sign and pass this link on to all your loving friends and follow the instructions on the web site and lets get China hear our opinion and Free Tibet.

http://www.candle4tibet.org/

Aye, have all my quotes nailed up on the wall so I remember them. Looked at some Goebbel speeches from the "German Propaganda Archive" as well.

Yep, am all set, gonna get an early night as well, had some driving lessons today

http://www.bebo.com/cubasolidaritygroup

Solidarity comrades!

I agree with you to some extent there. But I feel that we wouldn't have the same advantage when looking for employment.

Because of ageist attitudes in society, an adult would most likely be favoured against a teenager when applying for a job, they would be viewed as more reliable and experienced in the work-place.
The minimum wage for young people does have advantages, but I think that if the wage was the same as adult workers, you would see far less teenagers and young people in employment.

It should be raised of course, but it shouldn't be the same rate as an adult, or we'd lose this advantage when looking for employment. In my opinion it would lead to inexperienced young adults.

Is it just me? Or is it not a fucking disgrace that people aged 16-18 an be paid less than £4.00 per hour whilst someone that does the exact same job as them and works the same hours gets paid nearly £5.00. If this were women and men there would be up roar. I seems to me that ageism is an accepted form of discrimanation in this country and personaly it makes me sick.

Correct, we only need Unions because people under that capitalist system are willing to abuse people for their own gain, and if you don't act against injustice then you will keep your injustice. Unions are needed to make sure that corporations are not going to abuse their workers.
It's ironically the capitalist system that makes the need for unions...
(Of course unions do more than just that)

Anyway, Luv for the STUC youth committee.

it would be, but until employers stop abusing workers, treat people fairly and put workers first we will need unions!

This group doesn't nearly have enough luv ¬.¬

THERE IS POWER IN A UNION

Ha ha
All my rants are carefully backed up with hard evidence