We are Youth Access, the national membership organisation for Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services (YIACS) across the UK

We have been supporting our growing network across the UK since 1975 to provide young people with access to free, high-quality, community-based advice and counselling services. 

 

Our mission is to ensure all young people can access free support on their journey into adulthood from community-based advice and counselling services that respect their rights and meet their individual needs.  

We use young people to refer to people between 11-25 years old. We know organisations might have different uses of these terms, and/or be limited to serving narrower age ranges due to funding or other challenges. 

We invite organisations who share our mission to join our membership.

 

Membership criteria 

A. Please confirm the following statements apply to your organisation: 

1. We offer open access services for young people: this means young people can self refer and access support that is free. 

2. We are youth-focused: this means we solely support young people, or if we are an all age-organisation - there is a youth-specific service that is distinct in space, staff and offer.  

3. We are a local organisation serving a local community (this could be city, county or other local area). 

4. We are not for profit (such as a charity or social enterprise) 

  

B. What best describes your organisation? (one only) 

1. We deliver the core services of the Youth Access Model: (eg. counselling, youth work and advice) 

2. We plan to expand into delivering the core services of the Youth Access Model (eg. counselling and youth work only but plan to offer advice too). 

3. We deliver only part of the core services, (eg. counselling only) with no plan to expand but we have established local partnerships with organisations delivering other functions of the model. 

4. We deliver only part of the core services, (eg. counselling only) with no plan to expand. We have plans to establish local partnerships with organisations delivering other functions of the model. 

 

We support our members in various ways: 

• by developing and disseminating evidence, training and guidance to our members to ensure services have what they need to thrive and meet the varying needs of young people 

• by advocating for national policy change 

• by facilitating rich and rewarding collaboration across our network 

• by centring and amplifying the voices of young people 

 

Membership subscription fee:

 

Organisation’s Annual Turnover	Annual Fee
Charity & Voluntary Sector
Over 2m+	£200
Up to £1-2m	£180
Up to £500,000	£150
Up to £250,000	£110
Under £50,000	£50
Non-member (Hub)	Pay-as-you-go opportunities
Statutory & Public Sector (national orgs)	Pay-as-you-go opportunities

 

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