Hey, my name’s Sam. I’m twenty years old and I’m a young person who recently joined the amazing team at Achieve More Scotland.

My goal for the next six weeks is to grab your attention and make you think about some of the major issues facing thousands of young people all over the UK.

I strongly believe that we as young people deserve to have our voices heard, we deserve the same opportunities and we deserve just as much support and encouragement as anyone else.

I have picked 5 themes that I believe are some of the biggest issues we face. Each week I will address one of these by uploading content to our page. The more we do to raise awareness the more chance we have of inspiring someone to make a change. We want the UK to be the best possible place it can be for young people to grow up in. Young people are capable of doing so much we just have to recognise their contribution to society and support them to unlock their potential, after all it is the year of young people so let’s seize this opportunity and do something great with it.

“This world demands the qualities of youth. Not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease”
Robert Kennedy