Current Campaigns
The Milton Keynes Youth Council attended their residential in April 2025 to discuss what their priorities will be from the highest voted issues from the ‘Mark Your Mark’ Ballot 2024. The MYM report is available here.
The top issues and priorities for Milton Keynes were identified as Crime and Safety and Culture Media and Sport. The Youth Council will now start working towards actions for each of these priorities.
Youth Crime and Safety
- Improving crime and safety education to young people on important issues to them.
- Improving awareness on media literacy by looking at how to be safe online.
Culture, Media and Sports
Culture
- Expanding, improving and setting "Cultures Day" as a standard across schools in Milton Keynes.
Media
- Have a centralised communication location for organisations and schools to contact youth clubs so they can share information.
- Educating young people on media literacy.
Sport
- Advertise the sports initiatives in Milton Keynes, specifically ones for people with disabilities and making them more accessible. Have a wider variety of events and clubs in Milton Keynes who don’t want to be overly competitive - people who want to do sport for fun.
The top issues for UK Youth Parliament (UKYP) was mental health and wellbeing. Members of UKYP will work with the Campaign committees to shape their manifesto pledges focusing on mental health and wellbeing. The manifesto can be found here Digital UK Youth Parliament Manifesto 2024-2026.
These pledges are:
- Votes at 16
- Period dignity