Melton

Omar Sharif, MYP for Dorset, is aiming to get 2000 signatures on his Downing Street public transport petition by June 4th, he’s nearly there with over 1700 - help him reach his goal!

That's right, the elections are fast coming upon us.

To find out if you're eligible for the post, find out more informations and apply check out. . .

http://www.thejitty.com/mym/apply.html

The "Melton Youth Council presentation team" will be heading into school in the coming weeks to give out more information and a chance for people to ask questions.

In the mean time either check out The MYC Jitty page for more information or see you school Connexions adviser, your school MYC rep or pop into Venture House on Asfordby Road on a Thursday @ 4pm to see the youth council.

Things happen quickly in Melton so watch this space!

April has been a slow month with not a lot happening because of the Easter holidays. However we are due to meet with the borough council democratic team this week, to organise the young mayor timetable for this year as it will soon be election time... time moves fast when you are working and having fun.

However after Easter we are now all refreshed and ready to go through the summer term . So watch this space...

Its the beggining of april and already we have kicked off with a site visit! 1 Member of MYC visited the Melton Firestation on 1st April for a look around and a chat to the crews. Our member was not alone he was also joined by the Mayor of Melton, The Mayors consort, Mayors Civic officer and a number of other little children.

A good evening was had by all and all found it very informative to find out what melton crews actualy do as they are all retained fire fighters not full time.

We have started April off with a bang and we shall end it with an even bigger BANG!

Seven members of MYC and 3 members of the Vale youth council attended a young leaders residential at Beaumanor Hall last weekend. The residential was ran by CYCLe with members from all areas of the county attending.

A full write up from Melton's Press Officer is to follow soon so watch this space!

This month a number of things have been done. As a youth council we have been hard at work starting to plan our conference this year, planning the timetable for the young mayor elections and preparing a yof bid for myc amungst other things.

Nothing may appear to be happening on the surface but behind the scenes there is a hive of action and things will hopefully start to appear so watch this space!

Saturday 7th March saw this years annual county vox pop event. It presented a good oportunity to show the rest of the county what MYC is capable of which MYC running one of the three workshops in the day and also some members took key roles in organising the day itself. The day went off without a visible hitch (although im sure Matt and Dan found some wile they were running around and around like headless chickens)

For more information visit the Vox PoP subgroup page under CYCLe

A new document created by two members of Hinckley & Bosworth Youth Council, Martin and Simon, is set to be piloted in a Leicestershire school. John Cleveland College, Hinckley agreed to pilot the document, formally known as "Leicestershire Student and School Participation Charter".

The document was created with significant support from Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council, County Youth Council Leicestershire and Leicestershire County Council's Youth Service and Healthy Schools, both part of the County Council's Children and Young People's service. (read more...)

Both Melton Youth Council (inc. Bottesford) and Charnwood Youth Forum have returned today from a roller coaster of a residential and the excellent training facility called Brathay set on the shores of Lake Windermere in the heart of the Lake District, Cumbria.

The week was made up of different activities some being outdoors and some being inside in the meeting rooms. We did a range of outdoor activities including; Whale Boating, High Ropes, High V's, Low Ropes, Mental Challenges, Kayaking, Walking, Ghyll Scrambling, Product Assembly etc.

As well as the outward bound activities we did various workshops on things such as communication, leadership styles and tactics, moods, and working together.

Overall a excellent week was had by all, it had its fair share of ups and downs, and loads of laughter. But a serious message was received. . . "1 BIG Cheese is better than 16 mini ones". In other words, all of us put together to make the big cheese works better than 16 minds individually.

"Strive for change and change is the future"

The only other comment to be made is poor minibus driver! He got the fright of his life!

Dur to Venutre House still being closed for Christmas. MYC will return to normal on the 15h January 2009

Please Note: 22nd July is a FULL meeting!