Welcome to the JCI Yorkshire Website .....

Tracy Viner
Regional Group Chairman 2007

Karen Jamieson
Immediate Past Chairman

JCI (Junior Chamber International) is an independent out of hours organisation providing opportunities to its members for community/voluntary work, social activities, personal development, and business networking. It is an excellent way to meet new people.

JCI is a worldwide organisation with approximately 400,000 members in 123 countries. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland it is represented by JCI United Kingdom (JCI UK). JCI UK operates through a regional structure and the largest of these regions is JCI Yorkshire which is made up of 7 local chambers Barnsley, Bradford, Doncaster, Hull & East Yorkshire, Leeds, Sheffield and Wakefield. Within JCI UK there are some 40+ chambers.

JCI draws its membership from all walks of life. The organisation is NOT just for 'business' people. Membership in Yorkshire currently includes solicitors, secretaries, nurses, company directors, accountants, teachers, self-employed business people, computer programmers, civil service employees, students, PR executives, sales people and local government workers, to name but a few!

Some of JCI's more famous past members have included US Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Clinton, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Bob Hawke (former Prime Minister of Australia), Jacques Chirac (former President of France), Ted Turner (founder of CNN), Poul Schluter (former Prime Minister of Denmark) and Chen Shui-bian (10th president of Taiwan).

The strong international presence of JCI provides many opportunities to travel abroad. In recent years, members have been to Japan, Poitiers and Vienna, with opportunities to visit Estonia and Korea coming up in 2006.

The ONLY criteria for membership is that you are between the ages of 18 and 40. So why not contact us or your local chamber.

Yorkshire Junior Chambers would like to thank our regional sponsors Yorkshire Water and Cedar Court Hotels.