Welcome to your vote week 2025
10-16 March 2025
Every year schools and youth groups are asked to join The Electoral Commission in celebrating democracy by delivering democratic education with their students and young people.
The aim is 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.
The theme for 2025 is get informed and get involved. Youth voice champions from across the UK have developed 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 The Electoral Commission’s youth voice network, talk about what the theme of Welcome to Your Vote Week 2025 means to her.
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
- deliver our series of short activities and lesson plans on mis- and disinformation, created in partnership with Shout Out UK
- 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
Brand new education resources for 2025 are available online here.
Remember to share your plans and what you get up to during the week on social media with #WelcomeToYourVote.