This seminar considered the ‘making’ of citizens through the politics, performances, and institutional geographies of National Citizen Service (NCS), a government funded voluntary scheme for 16 and 17 year olds that aimed to “build skills for work and life” currently running in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. The seminar examined the framing of the individual ‘good’ young citizen alongside wider attempts to label young volunteers as a generation of citizens embedded within civil society.