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Lithuanian Youth Association in the United Kingdom
Lithuanian Youth Association in the United Kingdom (LYAUK, Lithuanian: Jungtinės Karalystės Lietuvių Jaunimo Sąjunga or JKLJS) - is a UK based coalition of young Lithuanians committed to promoting cultural values and versatile individual development, strengthening social correlation and helping to enrich the linkage with Lithuania.

Over its lifetime, Lithuanian Youth Association has grown into a mature organisation that has a developed structure and a lot of successful events; it has become one of the leading Lithuanian youth organisations in the world. Today dynamic LYAUK continues to grow not only by number of its members but also to scale. At the moment the union has twelve branches in the UK: Birmingham, Newcastle, Bradford, York, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Warwick, Nottingham, Manchester, Sheffield, Reading and London.

A research, which was conducted after the third and fourth student meeting, showed that most of the youths study economics, business and finance; however, there are also a lot of students of arts, media, communication, law and politics.

By uniting young Lithuanians in this country, cherishing Lithuanian identity and language, as well as introducing Lithuanian culture to British society LYAUK is gradually creating the real image of Lithuanian youth, their desires, aims and visions. Every young individual can find like-minded enthusiastic people here and contribute to creating the community, upholding Lithuanian identity.

History
Lithuanian Youth Association in the UK was founded nearly a half-century ago. Prior to re-establishment of Lithuania’s independence, members of the association actively protested against the restriction and demanded freedom for their homeland; they also arranged a meeting for Margaret Thatcher and Kazimiera Prunskiene, which took place on 19 May 1991. Activity of the association flagged after Lithuania’s independence was restored – it took another fifteen years and a new wave of emigration for young Lithuanians to unionise again. Active youths of Lithuania in the United Kingdom re-established the organisation on 22 April 2006.