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Monday 10 March to Sunday 16 March
Every year we ask schools and youth groups to join us in celebrating democracy by delivering democratic education with their students and young people.
We aim to support young people to develop the knowledge and confidence they need to cast their vote and discover other ways to get involved in democracy. Welcome to Your Vote Week provides a time in the year for teachers and educators to start the conversation with their young people.
a series of six lesson plans, tailored to the curriculum
short activities for youth groups or in form time or registration
youth facing information including quizzes and animated videos
Get informed and get involved
The theme for 2025 is get informed and get involved. We have worked with our youth voice champions from across the UK to develop ideas for the theme of Welcome to Your Vote Week 2025. Young people highlighted being informed and engaging with politics and democracy at a local level as important to them.
This Welcome to Your Vote Week, support young people to access trustworthy information to get informed about politics, democracy and elections, and take the first steps to get involved locally. Whether it’s discovering who represents them in their area, exploring the issues that matter most to them, or making a positive impact in their community, there are lots of ways young people can get informed and get involved.
Listen to a member of Children in Scotland, part of our youth voice network, talk about what the theme of Welcome to Your Vote Week 2025 means to her.
Get involved with the week
Everyone is welcome to get involved in Welcome to Your Vote Week 2025, and you can join in how ever you would like to. Feel free to be creative, ask your students and young people for their ideas, and deliver something which best suits you and your group.
You could:
hold a vote in your school or youth group which will make a real impact
run a voter registration drive for young people in your area
deliver our series of six lesson plans, or one of your own
organise an off-timetable democracy day in which your students design their own voter registration campaign
play democracy themed games
create fun social media content
or something completely different
Remember to share your plans and what you get up to during the week on social media with #WelcomeToYourVote
Hear from young people from Northern Ireland Youth Forum, part of our youth voice network, about why you should get involved with Welcome to Your Vote Week.
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