Maire Young OBE

Chair, Youth Council Northern Ireland

Maire Young OBE was appointed, through a public appointments procedure, as Chair of the Youth Council for Northern Ireland in May 2000, having served as a member since 1996. YCNI has a statutory responsibility to advise the Minister for Education on issues relating to the development of the Youth Service and young people in Northern Ireland.

She works as a management trainer and consultant in both voluntary and statutory organisations within the personal social services sector in Northern Ireland. Her main areas of work are in Strategic Planning; Management Training; Management Committee Development; Recruitment & Selection; Equal Opportunities and Diversity.  The roles and responsibilities of voluntary management committees and the contribution of volunteering to sustainable communities are particular areas of interest.

She has been a volunteer with HomeStartUK on the Northern Ireland Support and Advisory Group since 1994, joining the Management Committee in 2000 and the Board of Trustees in 2007. She is a trustee of a local volunteer bureau in Belfast - VSB.