Use Your Voice

Amnesty Youth campaign  

Amnesty UK is inviting young people to Use Their Voice and share their ideas for the positive change they want to see in their communities and beyond, helping to uplift human rights for all. 

Use Your Voice is your space to speak openly about what needs to change, share ideas for a fairer world and work with Amnesty UK to bring those ideas to life. 

From conversations in school to speaking directly with decision-makers, your ideas will help shape a national Youth Manifesto led by young people across the UK. 

Young people have always been agents of change. Now more than ever, we need your ideas, your energy and your vision in order to drive real change on the issues which matter most to young people. 

Starter Pack 

Welcome to Amnesty Youth’s Use Your Voice Starter Pack – designed to help you on your first step of the Use Your Voice campaign journey at your school!  

This pack includes:  

• Context on the Use Your Voice campaign 

• Information on how to get strarted with our Listening activity   

• Digital postcards to print at your school 

Listening Activity  

Amnesty Youth have designed a simple activity for everyone to get involved with at your schools!  

The postcard activity is the first step of the Use Your Voice campaign and it starts with one thing: listening 

The purpose is simple: to find out what young people in your school care about, what problems they’re facing, and which issues they think need attention. This helps you understand what matters before jumping into ideas or solutions. 

Listening is how real change begins. You can’t fix a problem if you don’t know what it is, and the best way to find out is to hear directly from the people living it. 

Your job is to get these postcards into as many hands as possible, across different year groups and different spaces, so you get a real and honest picture of what students think. 

Follow these steps 

• Identify your team: Who are you working with to kick-off Use Your Voice at school?

• Identify your goal: How many postcards do you want completed by February 2026?

• Identify your targets: To reach your goal, which other student groups or youth groups outside of school will you share postcards with?

• Distribute your postcards: Now that you have your team, your goal and your target, it’s time to start distributing! What’s key to remember here is that this activity will only be a success if you remember to collect your postcards after people compete them – you may want to set up a ‘ballot box’ at school or organise collection times at a specific classroom or during lunch break, this would also be a great chance to meet and chat with people interested in Use Your Voice.

• Submit them to Amnesty: Submit your postcards to Amnesty.

Digital Postcards  

If you would like to download more postcards, please use the following PDF link.  

We recommend printing them on A5 paper-card, however any format works!  

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Book Your Vision for Change Workshop  

Once your group has completed their Use Your Voice postcards, you are ready for the next step. This is a great moment to bring everything you have heard together and begin shaping your Vision for Change. 

When you are ready, please book your Visioning Workshop using this form: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=Bg8JJbLiAkiGAdaHLZWu7R4yyIwnFg5Gv4HVaVeCxf9UN1dQNjBaUDFQRFRUOUZaQ041MVREVEtCMy4u&route=shorturl 

An Amnesty representative will visit your school to support your group in turning their ideas and insights into a shared vision. 

Use Your Voice  

Are you new to the Use Your Voice Amnesty Youth campaign? Or do you need a quick reminder about the campaign content and next steps?  

The following document contains all the information you need to know about the Use Your Voice campaign and how to get involved  

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Questions?  

Are you excited about getting involved by still unsure what to do next?  

Get in touch with our Amnesty Youth Organiser, Ebony, and introduce yourself and your questions on the Use Your Voice campaign or postcard project. Ebony.Moreno@amnesty.org.uk