Hinckley & Bosworth

Congratulations to Matt D who is the Jitty Officer and Tillie K who is the new Community Forums Liaison Officer for Hinckley & Bosworth Youth Council.

Matt was elected at the Extraordinary General Meeting on 14th October and Tillie was appointed to aide the Youth Council managing the links between the Youth Council and Community Forums.

Hinckley & Bosworth Youth Council recently sent out a questionnaire to all 8,000 young people living in the Borough asking them about their views on Facilities and Transport within the Borough. So far, the questionnaires have been sent to every school and college in the Borough for students from Year 7 to 13.

Initial analysis will be prepared for the annual Voice of Young People conference in mid-October for the results to be ratified

A full and detailed report on the questionnaire results will be made and published in the coming months.

Members of Hinckley & Bosworth Youth Council completed Media Training during the Summer Holidays. The training focused on improving interview skills and how to liaise with journalists.

The training was deemed beneficial by all those who attended, and the Press Officer Bhavik is already putting his newly learnt skills into practice for the upcoming Voice of Young People conference.

Some photos of the day can be found on the photos page.

The Hinckley & Bosworth Youth Council (HBYC) "Voice of Young People" conference will take place on Thursday 16th October and will include various workshops ranging from our School Participation Proposal to Young People in Employment.

Over 100 young people from School Councils around the Borough will be in attendance at the free conference with the intention of creating a solid link with the Youth Council to promote the Voice of Young People within the Borough as well as the County through the County Youth Council of Leicestershire (CYCLe) via the Pyramid of Participation.

For more information on the Pyramid of Participation, watch this video created by two members of HBYC.

The October meeting of Hinckley & Bosworth Youth Council will be an Extraordinary General Meeting, or EGM for short. Typically, an EGM will be called if the Youth Council needs to make amendments to its Constitution or to elect members to the Executive committee.

This EGM is being held to elect a member to the position of Jitty Officer which has become vacant following the resignation of our previous Officer. No Constitution amendments are planned.

The EGM was called on 15th September 2008 at the Full HBYC meeting. For the EGM to go ahead, at least 15 members must be present at the meeting as defined by our Constitution. This is called the quorate (pronounced cor-ut).

If you cannot attend, please send your apologies with another member or contact us on hbyc@thejitty.com.

The meeting dates for the HBYC meetings have been set for the next year (till next October). All dates are now in the Meetings calendar and have been sent out to all members.

For reference, the dates for meetings uptill the AGM in March are as follows:

The meeting dates for HBYC till the AGM are:
Full Meeting Dates - At HBBC Offices from 6pm-9pm

• 15th September 2008
• 13th October 2008
• 10th November 2008
• December - Xmas Party (details will be given at upcoming meetings)
• 12th January 2009
• 9th February 2009
• 9th March 2009 (AGM)

Exec. Meeting Dates - At HBBC Offices from 5pm - 7pm

• 1st September 2008
• 6th October 2008
• 3rd November 2008
• 1st December 2008
• 5th January 2009
• 2nd February 2009
• 2nd March 2009

Sunday the 8th was very successful, there was a good audience turn out and the youth council had a tent set up advertising the things we do and had the facilities to print out photos from the day. Hopefully this will improve more next year with the arrival of the West Area Mobile Youth Project (lorry).

A big thank you out to all the bands that performed, they were, in order

• Screaming Danni
• Dig! Lazarus! Dig
• The Essentials

Hopefully for next year we will be able to get more talent throughout the day and be able to advertise ourselves more in another area of the field.

HBYC's annual music event will be on Sunday the 8th of June at Hinckley Carnival in Clarendon Park, Hinckley.

All guests will be receive HBYC freebies as well as a good variety of music from local bands. HBYC is also fundraising for HBYC's Sponsored Child in Cambodia during the day. The event starts at 11am.

Unfortunatly, due to circumstances beyond our control, the West Area Mobile Youth Lorry will not be at the event

Two members of Hinckley & Bosworth Youth Council have created a short video out of Lego that explains the Pyramid of Participation proccess that occurs in Leicestershire and where Scount Groups, School Councils, Borough Youth Council and County Youth Councils fit into the structure.

We've been working hard to get a new youth councils site up and running, and here it is!