1. Getting the most from your Community Membership As a member of YEUK you are now able to access our online community. YEUK believes that one of its biggest strengths is its members and the work we can do to share, collaborate and inform will help all of our members improve the services offered to young people. This short guide will explore with you the online community and show you how to get the best from your membership. We are in the process of adding a lot more content and using more information from our members, so please keep a close eye out for the developments.

2. Best practice and case studies YEUK shares with our members best practice help and how to guides for a range of youth employment areas, many of these guides are developed around the principles of youth friendly employment. Organisation members can also share their own case studies and help the community learn from existing programmes, finding out what works an what is to be avoided. We hope the case studies will lend to greater collaboration and less re-inventing wheels How you can benefit Upload any case studies showcasing your work especially where you can share learning experiences that might help others Keep in touch with the latest case studies and use the network of members to explore how you might be able to collaborate

3. Events We share any events and conference information that we feel will benefit our members, very often YEUK members can attend these events at a discounted rate so its always a good eye to keep an eye out for what's coming up. How you can benefit Upload any events that you are running that you would like to invite community members or our young members to Check out for events where your membership to YEUK will provide a discount attendance

4. Forum This is the place where all of our members can get involved in debates, discussions and network. How you can benefit Start a conversation, ask for help Join in with existing conversations Network and build relationships with other members

5. Member to Member discounts Some of our members sell products and services and have gifted discounts to other members. How you can benefit Share any discounts you can offer our members Make sure you utilise the support that is available

6. Only you can determine what you want from your membership and put the time into making that membership work for you. We are on hand to help all of our members use the YEUK community, support our young members and benefit from our Youth Friendly expertise. Please do reach out to us if you want to find out how much more you can get from your membership and the support available. Kenechi Eziefula – kenchi@yeuk.org.uk