It is Earth Day on 22 April – and the 50th anniversary of the first in 1970. Concerns over climate change may have been temporarily eclipsed by the COVID-19 virus, but – as the writer, young mother and IF supporter Melissa Jane Knight tells us, in this personal take – the COVID-19 crisis cannot obscure… Read more »
Melissa Jane Knight
Votes at 16 bill torpedoed (again)
In the House of Commons, a private member’ s bill to reduce the voting age to 16 was squeezed out by a time limit on Friday 3 November – “sabotaged” by the Conservatives, according to Opposition MPs. It now has little chance of becoming law. IF supporter Melissa Jane Knight sees this as both deeply… Read more »
Bricking it – starting a family without a foundation
Contributing to our occasional “Vox Pop” series, Melissa Jane Knight talks housing and how the rhetoric of a government claiming to support “hard-working families” falls on deaf ears when young families are locked out of affordable home-ownership and forced into cramped, expensive rentals
Votes at 16 Report at the House of Commons: the start of something big?
Melissa Jane Knight reports on the launch of the British Youth Council’s report on lowering the voting age to 16, and tells us why this matters
Tackling Youth Unemployment: Interview with YEUK
In her ongoing series of interviews with activists for young people, Lewisham youth worker Melissa Jane Knight talks to Alexa-Jane Moore, Youth Ambassador for YEUK (Youth Employment UK)
Action for Youth: Interview with IARS
In her ongoing series of interviews with activists for young people, Lewisham youth worker Melissa Jane Knight talks to Ayesha Carmouche (pictured right), Campaigns Co-ordinator and Communications Officer for Independent Academic Research Studies (IARS)