Here at the Future Leaders Network we are delighted to be hosting the Y7 Summit in 2021, in collaboration with the British Youth Council. We want young people to be at the heart of our Summit, and that begins in the design process.

We are pleased to announce we have launched a new collaboration series with Tortoise Media to engage the voices of young people in the journalism of today.

It’s been an eventful and busy two months since I first wrote about my role leading the UK delegation to the G7 Youth Summit in June. Lots has changed due to the pandemic and it initially looked like the virus might cancel or put most of normal life on hold. Having passed that initial phase, people are finding remote ways to continue working towards milestones and goals, so lots has continued too! In some ways, the lockdown has given me back more time to work on personal projects outside of work, such as the preparation for this summit. In other ways, things have become busier than ever, as we all try to plough on with our plans despite the pandemic.

The UK G7 and G20 Youth Delegations would like to hear your views on the big issues of today, and how you would solve them. You views will inform the policy proposals that are set out by the UK delegations to their counterparts at this year's G7 and G20 Summits.

We, the representatives of the Y7, call on the leaders of the G7 countries for a stronger and more coordinated global response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This year’s application cycle has been the most competitive selection on record for the UK delegates. With over 150 applicants and only 50 candidates making it through to the assessment centre - only 7 spots were available across the two delegations. It is with great honour and pleasure that we can announce the 2020 G7 and G20 youth delegations for the UK.

The purpose of the youth engagement group is to highlight the most pressing issues affecting young people and to connect with young leaders in order to solicit their solutions to tackle these challenges. The Youth Summits typically take the form of a week-long summit in the host country, bringing together young leaders from across the globe, to discuss and debate the big issues. The output of the summit is a communiqué containing policy proposals which is presented world leaders as part of the official G7/G20 summit. This is a unique opportunity to influence at the highest level.

I travelled up to Brussels on the Eurostar at 06.47 on the day of the European Council meeting, along with what felt like half the British media. The UK Prime Minister was due to agree a new Withdrawal Agreement with the EU27 after weeks of no-deal speculation, meaning familiar faces were also Brussels-bound. BBC's Laura Kuenssberg and Nigel Farage MEP were some of the other early risers we caught sight of on our train; eager to see what they day would unfold. 

The EU-Taiwan Forum on Youth Engagement in Climate Action, set to precede the UN Climate Summit, aimed to allow key ministers and members of the community to engage with the youth voice and promote cross-generational and cross-disciplinary dialogue.

The Future Leaders Network has been awarded 8 sponsored places for a visit to the European Parliament, 17th October 2019. The European Parliament (EP) is the legislative branch of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union, it adopts European legislation, normally on a proposal from the European Commission. The Parliament is composed of 751 members (MEPs), intended to become 705 starting from the 2019–2024 legislature due to specific provisions adopted about Brexit.

Are you passionate about youth leadership? Do you have a track record of motivating teams of volunteers and leading them in aid of a cause? Have you got experience of working with not-for-profits and delivering meaningful impacts on your community? 

Forty plus authors from across the world crafting a three page document that proposes collective solutions to the biggest challenges of our time is as taxing a task as it sounds. Nothing at the Y20 is black and white. Not even the commas on the final Communiqué which have been moved, debated, omitted, inserted and reinserted many times over– often in adrenaline-fuelled disagreements in the hotel lobby at 2am in the morning. Everything is open to negotiation.

The Future Leaders Network is seeking a talented young leader to represent the United Kingdom at the British Office Taipei, Taiwan, for the EU Climate Diplomacy week.

On Wednesday 3rd July, select members of the FLN were invited to The Royal Institution, Mayfair to hear from global leaders. The topic was 'Raising Climate Ambition', and we were hosted by Her Majesty’s Department for International Development.

Having recently moved to London, I was eager to find opportunities where I could connect with like-minded young professionals, interested in the same things I was. What attracted me to the Future Leaders Network was the recognition that young people don’t just have the potential for leadership but already have the qualities that make them leaders, but rather young people are just lacking the opportunities to exercise their leadership skills. 

The UK will sending a delegation across to the Forum later this month to present the UK's Voluntary National Review on its progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. This will consist of a 3 day visit to New York, 15th - 17th July 2019, in which the UK will present its work to the rest of the UN attendees.

This year’s application cycle has been the most competitive selection on record for the UK delegates. With almost 150 applicants, 40 made it through to the assessment centre with only 6 spots available across the two delegations. It is with great honour and pleasure that we can announce the 2019 G7 and G20 youth delegations.

The Future Leaders Network is seeking a delegation of two talented young people to represent the United Kingdom at the 2019 G20 Summit in Tokyo, Japan. 

The Y7 is the youth engagement group of the G7, an international summit of the seven largest advanced economies in the world. The purpose of the youth engagement group is to highlight the most pressing issues affecting young people and to connect with young leaders in order to solicit their solutions to tackle these challenges. The Y7 summit itself typically takes the form of a week-long summit in the host country, bringing together young leaders from across the globe, to discuss and debate the big issues.

The Future Leaders Network is seeking a delegation of four talented young people to represent the United Kingdom at the 2019 G7 Summit in Paris, France.