Take a Break look at YOPEY

The most popular women’s magazine revisited YOPEY with this three-page special over the 2010 new year. Take a Break magazine held the first nationwide YOPEY contest in 2008 and introduced the contest to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah. Gordon held a reception

What Kelly did next...

Kelly Burrows, who cares for her sister with severe disabilities, was a runner up in 2008 Cambridge Building Society Young People of the Year in Cambridgeshire. She has now picked up another award for her work. Kelly has won the "Leslie Almond Award" for her commitment

Tory leader asks to meet YOPEY winners

Bedfordshire's, Buckinghamshire's, Essex and Nottinghamshire's Young People of the Year have been to the Houses of Parliament as a guest of David Cameron.

The Conservative leader asked to meet ‘Yopey' founder Tony Gearing and some of the

The kids are all right in a chamber with attitude

The Times coverage of when more than twenty young people from the UK Youth Parliment sat in the House of Commons debating issues that affected young people such as University fee's

Positive press in Scotland

Indulge your selfishness. Go and help someone

Janice Turner writes in The Times about how people who work in the city are now recognising the advantages about volunteering and what we can do to "harness the itch to be altruistic"

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More positive press in Cambridge!

An example of the positive press being achieved in Cambridge! Click here to read this press in a larger format

Look what Stacey's doing now!

Stacey Johnson was a runner-up in one of the very first YOPEYs in 2005. Look what she’s up to now! You can read a bigger copy of the article by clicking here

Young film-maker stars in local paper

YOPEY Film Maker Charlie Masters who made afilm about YOPEY (Which can be seen on the YOPEY on TV Page) has started in his local paper!

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YOPEY in Scouting Magazine

An interview with a YOPEY finalist recently appeared in a Scouting Magazine. 

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