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YOU London cadets at the YOU London Leadership Conference 2022

YOU London is a unique partnership of uniformed youth organisations, working together in London for mutual benefit.

YOU London cadets at the YOU London Leadership Conference 2022

YOU London gives you the opportunity to make a fantastic change to your life, to make new friends, have some really great adventures, develop all sorts of skills and help others. So if you’re under 18 and want to get the most out of your life, this could just be it.

Plus, if you’re over 18, there are tremendously rewarding spare time roles as an Adult Instructor. The Adult Instructor of each of the organisations is the same – to provide the skills needed by the young people for the future, irrespective of their career path, self-confidence, teamwork, loyalty and reliability, each using a different “vehicle” to achieve this, from gliding with the Air Cadets to fire-fighting and saving lives with the Fire Cadets.

The organisations that make up YOU London are already giving tens of thousands of London’s youth the time of their lives.

YOU London website

The organisations included are:

  • Air Training Corps
  • Army Cadet Force
  • Boys’ Brigade
  • Community Fire Cadets
  • Girls’ Brigade
  • Girl-guiding
  • Jewish Lads’ and Girls’ Brigade
  • Scouts
  • Sea Cadet Corps
  • St. John’s Ambulance
  • Volunteer Police Cadets
YOU London Fire cadets during the Leadership Development Weekend

Each of the 11 is a successful organisation in its own right, with its own structure and aims, but by working together we can achieve greater impact. Working together takes many forms, including inter-group competitions, sharing premises, exhibiting together at recruitment events and being aware of who is who in London’s youth groups. In terms of bids, resources, funding and influence, working together often produces for us much more than the sum of the individual parts. By sharing ideas best practice and resources we can:

  • Increase the number of adult volunteers supporting member organisations
  • Increase the number of young people joining member organisations
  • Improve and build on the activities and opportunities these groups offer young people and their adult instructors
  • Attract further funding and make better use of resources
  • Offer ever-growing numbers of young people the chance to get more out of life through fun, adventure and citizenship

YOU London is proud to have the following organisations support our work and help us achieve our goal of attracting 100,000 young people to our organisations by 2025.

  • Greater London Lieutenancy
  • Greater London Reserve Forces’ and Cadets‘ Association
  • The Worshipful Company of Management Consultants
YOU London cadets during the Leadership Development Weekend

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