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5th Annual Youth Forum Applications – Now Open!
FLN is inviting one passionate, visionary young leader to represent our community at the International Youth Forum 2025! 📅 August 21–22, 2025 | 📍 UN Conference Centre, Bangkok The International...
UK Y7 Delegates Call for Boldness, Ambition and Practical Steps to Ensure a Just and Equitable Transition for Young People.
Please read: G7 Communique Whilst it was encouraging to see that leaders prioritised supporting Ukraine’s efforts against an ‘illegal war of aggression’, alongside a willingness to strengthen...
UK Youth Leaders Celebrate the Successes of COP27 and Call for a Formal Delegation to COP28
Two young leaders, supported by a team of nine young delegates, all from the United Kingdom (UK) have come back from Egypt having represented the youth of the UK at COP27 - the world’s biggest...
The UK’s Y20 Delegates React to the Final G20 Leaders Declaration
The four young leaders who represented the voices of British young people at this year’s G20 reflect on the outcomes of the world leaders’ summit. Diversity and Inclusion Going into the G20 Leaders...
Y20 Calls on G20 Leaders to Commit to Effective Multilateralism Ahead of Leaders Summit
The four UK Youth G20 (Y20) representatives join the Indonesian Youth Diplomacy (IYD) and nearly 20 other global youth organisations in calling on the G20 Leaders to uphold meaningful...
Rishi Sunak Responds to the UK Youth G20 Representatives
Sunak, the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, had previously responded to the UK Y20 representatives whilst in his former role as Chancellor of the Exchequer in June 2022. You can read the...
UK Youth Leaders Call for Youth-specific Transition Finance Ahead of the World’s Biggest Climate Change Talks at COP27 in Egypt
COP27, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be the 27th of its kind. Each year, the presidency rotates and in 2022, COP27 will take place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt from 6 - 18...
Young Leaders Call on UK’s New Prime Minister to Push for a Major Digital Transformation in G20 Economies
Mohammad Mahdi Karim, Micheala Chan, Eleri Kirkpatrick-Lorente and Shaun Odili are the four U.K. youth who were chosen by the Future Leaders Network to represent the U.K.’s 11.1 million young people...
UK Youth Representatives Call for G20 Leaders to Engage with Youth Priorities
The G20 is an annual gathering of world leaders and Ministers from most of the planet’s largest economies, composed of 19 countries and the European Union. Each year, the Presidency rotates amongst...
Joint Y7 Statement on the Final G7 Leaders Declaration
They argue that the G7 Leaders’ Communiqué highlights a lack of inclusivity of young people’s views and limited ambition in response to pressing global challenges including the climate crisis,...
FLN Wales Leadership Reflections: Having a Strong Network Supports Leadership
As we expect to welcome new members, we will be providing a short introduction into the Wales Future Leaders Network and sharing our journey to date. It will also be an opportunity to welcome the...
Y7 2021 Looking Back, Looking Forward
In May, the Future Leaders Network hosted the Y7 Summit and shared the young people informed policy recommendations to be presented to the G7. The Future Leaders Network Wales team invites anyone...
Young Cornish Students Take Their Seat at the G7 Leaders’ Table in a Mock G7 Programme at Carbis Bay Hotel
The students, aged 14 - 15, split into groups, with each one representing a G7 country. They researched and developed their country’s position on ‘ocean action’, before taking part in a real-world...
Mental Health on the Final G7 Communiqué as a Direct Result of the Youth 7’s Policy Recommendations
On Thursday, Johnson had told Evie Aspinall, U.K. Head Delegate from the Youth 7, that he would push G7 leaders to include a statement on mental health “because of what young people had been saying...
Prime Minister Promises to Put Mental Health on the G7 Agenda on Behalf of Young People
Johnson told representatives from the Youth 7 on Thursday, at the G7’s International Media Centre, that he would push G7 leaders to include a statement on mental health “because of what young people...
The U.K.’s Youth Representatives Join the Global Call for World Leaders to Fund Quality Education for Every Girl and Boy
Securing 12 years of quality education for every girl and boy is a prerequisite to building a better and brighter future for generations to come - and this requires systemic change. GPE is the key...
Future Leader’s Network is Pleased to Announce AstraZeneca’s Sponsorship of the Youth 7 Summit in 2021
The Youth 7 (Y7) is one of six engagement groups supported by the U.K. Government during its 2021 G7 Presidency, with the others being the Business 7, Civil Society 7, Labour 7, Women 7 and Science...
Professor Ian Chapman says “To find answers to the climate crisis, we need young people”
The Youth 7 (Y7) is one of six engagement groups supported by the U.K. Government during its 2021 G7 Presidency, with the others being the Business 7, Civil Society 7, Labour 7, Women 7 and Science...
#AtTheTable with Sir Jeremy Farrar
Jeremy Farrar is Director of the Wellcome Trust - a politically and financially independent global charitable foundation that exists to fund Science to solve the urgent health challenges facing...
Take your Seat #AtTheTable with Professor Ian Chapman, Chief Executive of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority.
Ian Chapman became CEO of the UK Atomic Energy Authority and Director of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in October 2016. He has held a number of international roles in fusion, including...
Health Y7 Leaders Commemorate World Health Day
Since its inception on April 7th 1948, World Health Day has been dedicated to taking a step back amidst our hectic society to focus on global health problems. For this year’s World Health Day, we,...