Welcome to the Speakers Trust RU-vid channel. Our aim is to amplify young people’s voices by building confidence, developing skills and creating physical and digital platforms for young people to share their ideas. Communication skills are vital for young people to achieve their potential at school and in work, and for them to have the confidence and ability to influence social change.

We work with 30 thousand young people in about 1 in 5 secondary schools in the country and with some of the country’s largest charities. Speakers Trust have trained about 400 thousand people since 2008.

Jack Petchey’s “Speak Out” Challenge! is our flagship programme. Through this, we offer public speaking training to every secondary state school in London and Essex. The Regional Final videos shown here are the top three speeches given by Year 10 students at 37 different Regional Finals. For more information on Jack Petchey’s “Speak Out” Challenge! visit www.speakoutchallenge.com.