National Youth Week (NYW) is on between 10 and 18 April 2010.
It's a National, State, Territory and Local Government initiative that gives young people aged 12 to 25 an opportunity to express their ideas and views, act on issues that affect their lives and have a lot of fun.
Basically, it's a week long party right across Australia where you get to participate in heaps of competitions, events and activities for FREE!
If you are young, young at heart or care about young people we want you to become involved in an activity, event or project with your school, university, TAFE, local community or just with your mates.
NYW aims to encourage you to:
- Share ideas
- Attend live events
- Have a voice on issues of concern to you
- Showcase your talent
- Celebrate your contribution to the community
- Have fun
So what's happening?
Every year National Youth Week in Victoria involves more than a hundred events and performances taking place - it's a busy week, involving everything from circus performances to battles of the bands, from photography exhibitions to dance competitions.
The idea is that YOU get to put on the gig that YOU want, and the way that we help you do that is to provide a series of financial grants to help get your gigs off the ground - check out our section on National Youth Week Grants below for more info about that.
In the meantime you can check out the 2009 NYW blogs, as written by 2009 Young Member Emily Greco.Here's what Emily had to say:
- Blog #1 - Meet Emily!
- Blog #2 - Filming the TV spot for National Youth Week!
- Blog #3 - National Youth Week is GO!
- Blog #4 - It's here!
We also had a bunch of roving reporters covering lots of things that happened as part of NYW 2009 - check out what they had to say about it all.
National Youth Week Grants
Applications for grants to help run National Youth Week events are currently open. To find out more about what's on offer and how to apply for it, check out our overview of the 2010 grants round.
Funding for the National Youth Week 2010 grant round has been made possible with the assistance of Beyond Blue (new window).
For more information about grants and how you can get involved in the National Youth Week 2010 program, call the Office for Youth on 9208 3209.
Links
National Youth Week
This is the official National Youth Week website.
Office for Youth - National Youth Week
NYW is sponsored in Victoria by the Office for Youth. This is their website with plenty of information about NYW, including helpful resources for planning your own event.
