The Youth Action Network (formerly the National Federation of Youth Action Agencies) was a UK-wide youth organisation that promotes volunteering by young people in their communities.
The organisation was set up in 1995 as a support network for Youth Action Agencies across the country. It was supported itself by the National Youth Agency, though this support ceased with the launch of Millennium Volunteers in 1999.
One of the chief successes of the organisation has been the development of a quality assurance model, based on PQASSO, for its members.
It merged into NCVYS on 9 March 2012
Youth Action Network members include:
- Aylesbury Youth Action (founder member)
- Youth Action Cambridge (founder member)
- Solent Youth Action
- The Ivy Project
Youth Action Network currently has around 100 member organisations which pay an annual fee to be a member of the network.
Famous quotes containing the words youth, action and/or network:
““Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth time were seen
On the Echoing Green.””
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“The philosophy of action for action, power for the sake of power, had become an established orthodoxy. “Thou has conquered, O go-getting Babbitt.””
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)