Kirsten Urquhart
@KirstenUrquhart
Chief Exec @youngscot 🙌🏼 | Mum💙| She/Her | BEM | #YoungPeople | Transport Scot NSTAB |Consumer Scot CCVC | Scotrail stakeholder panel |CyberScot Steering Grp
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💥Were hiring💥
Three exciting new roles with us The Young Women's Movement. Are you ready to make a difference to the lives of young women & girls?
✨️Head of Programmes & Operations
✨️Learning & Engagement Worker
✨️Research & Participation Worker
Deadline to apply: 9am 6th May
Do you know a young person who travels by ferry? ⛴️
Make sure they know concessionary ferry vouchers are going digital!
If they live in #Orkney or #Shetland , they'll need to add vouchers to their Young Scot National Entitlement Card!
transport.gov.scot/concessionary-… National Entitlement Card
CILIPScotland Intersectional equity, neurodiversity and informed consent… utterly blown away by the thoughtful and thought-provoking insights into AI challenges and opportunities being shared by the young people of the #ScottishAISummit2024 Young Scot panel. Five future leaders for sure!
The #ScottishAISummit2024 team have smashed it out of the park again. 🤩Hearing young people’s voices on two panels from representatives from the Children’s Parliament and Young Scot has been truly inspiring. A common message from both sessions; demand for education about AI.
What a cracking #ScottishAISummit2024 🙌🏼 a hugely insightful, inclusive & thoughtful programme, with not one, but two inputs from children & young people! Honoured to have co-chaired a panel today featuring our fab Young Scot volunteers & they knocked it out the park as ever ❤️
Heading home from a packed day of fulfilling connection 🙌🏼 Our full Young Scot staff meeting, followed by our #BoardMeeting , then online session this evening with our fab #youthvolunteers -feel very fortunate to be surrounded by support, inspiration & innovation #TruthAboutYouth
Apply for @youngscot NEC cards via mygovscot myaccount and getyournec.scot and get access to #FreeBusTravel if you're under 22 and a range of discounts and rewards for everyone aged 11-26 living in Scotland: young.scot/the-young-scot…
Less than 1 week to go and we're thrilled to tell you about another amazing #ScotAISummit panel session:
🌟Youth Voices & AI - The BIG Survey with Young Scot, featuring Mhairi Aitken, Kirsten Urquhart and volunteers from Young Scot.
#AI #ScottishAI
Ten years, ten partners - today we're flagging up work we've done with Young Scot. Our mission is to reduce numbers of young people who have become homeless because of relationship breakdown, and so Young Scot has helped get out the message about conflict resolution to YP. 1/3
🚍Young people who are 5-21 years old living in Scotland get free bus travel. It’s part of Scottish Government's plan to build a fairer, greener society. Check out Young Scot to see how to get your national entitlement card➡️: young.scot/get-informed/y…
We recently had the privilege of hosting a Young Scot panel at The Falkirk Wheel.
It was great to gain lots of insights from the young people on topics spanning accessibility around our sites.
Thanks Young Scot for coming along, and we look forward to meeting again soon!
We are so very fortunate to work with amazing youth volunteers like Malikah that give their time, passion, energy & enthusiasm to being effective change makers in Scotland ⬇️👏🏻🥰 #TruthAboutYouth
Do you know young people who might be young carers?
Encourage them to find out what support they're eligible for - including the Young Carer Grant!
🔗 young.scot/get-informed/w…
Social Security Scotland #YoungCarerActionDay
Delighted to be at this ASH Scotland event today on behalf of Young Scot. Great insights and discussions so far including the importance of relevant, quality-assured information to inform decision-making and the need for effective communication with young people around the risks.