Youth Council News

UK Youth Parliament - Annual Sitting

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

UK youth parliament reps held their annual sitting in Leeds in the summer of 2011. Have a look at how they got on!

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UKYP at the House of Commons

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

UKYP

In 2011 the UK Youth Parliament carried out a nationwide poll of over 65,000 young people – remember the link on 'The Jitty'? The results of this poll identified the top five issues of concern for young people in the United Kingdom today, which were:

'Make Public Transport Cheaper, Better and Accessible for All'
'No to Tuition Fees, Yes to Graduate Tax'
'Zero Tolerance towards Bullying in Schools'
'End Child Poverty'
'A Greener Future forBritain'

Then on 4th November 2011, at an event to mark the finale of Parliament Week, members of the UK Youth Parliament sat in the House of Commons and debated these five topics and voted for the priority campaign, which was 'Transport'.

The debate was chaired by the Speaker, Rt Hon John Bercow MP, following opening remarks from the Leader of the House, Rt Hon Sir George Young MP, and Shadow Leader Maria Eagle MP. MYPs also met the Childrens Minister Tim Loughton MP and the Leader of the Opposition, Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP.

New Leader at Charnwood Youth Council

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Louis is the new leader of Charnwood Youth Council. He was elected as the new leader at the elections in October. He is the fourth leader of the youth council since 2010 and will be leading on upcoming projects such as the 'Face it Be Green Launch, the 'Big Monster Ball' special needs conference and the 'Big Charnwood Youth Conference 2'.

Louis had this to say, "I'm Louis and I'm the newly elected leader of the Charnwood Youth Council. After being part of the council for two years, its an honour to be able to represent the views and opinions of young people in the Borough. I am looking forward to being able to overlook some of the exciting and valuable projects we have planned during my term of leadership. Working so closely with the community has given us all a good insite into the life of people in Charnwood and has become something we are all very passionate about. My association with CYC has been very rewarding and has given me a great sense of achievement and personal growth."

The Youth Council welcome Louis into his new role and can't wait to see what he has to offer the Youth Council. Louis will be the leader up until Christmas where in the new term, a new leader will again be elected.

Good Luck Louis!

Active Opinion, our 02 funded project

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0100

School Liaison Officer's Update

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Over the past couple of months, there has been a lot of changes that have happened over the past couple of months in the Hinckley & Bosworth area. Young People have had to face some difficult issues and as a result; loss of funding has been cut. This Action Plan is so that the Young People in the Hinckley & Bosworth area can understand what is going on and so that they get all the necessary information and regular updates as to what's going on.

My role in a way is very big part of the Young People in the area as it's my job to tell you guys. I keep in regular contact with all the Student Council Coordinators in the area and make sure that they are getting all the information they need as well to pass it on.

This time of year gets very difficult as there is lots of plans and preparation for when everyone moves on to either a new year group or a new school. One of the key features of your school is that they get as much information as possible from the LA and from the borough council; which is then, hopefully, passed onto you.

The Hinckley & Bosworth Youth Council work very hard to get our views across - but we can only do this without your help and support. As many of you are moving to a different school, we are loosing representatives from over half of the schools in the area.

The Following Schools need to be allocated a representative:

Brookvale High School - Groby
Dixie High School - Market Bosworth
Bosworth College - Desford
Heathfield High School - Earl Shilton
Market Bosworth High School
Mount Grace High School - Hinckley
Redmoor High School - Hinckley
Saint Martin's High School - Stoke Golding
South Charnwood High School
Twycross House School

If you attend any of the above schools, please do the to get more information about the Youth Council, what we do and who we are.

E-Mail hbyc@thejitty.com and talk to Cassie - Our Chair - about getting involved

Alex - School Liaison Officer

Summer Training at CYC

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Over the summer holidays, CYC members have been taking part in various training sessions to help them out with upcoming projects.

On the 18th and 19th of July, Anjli, Rachael, Rhea, Louis and Zoe all took part in interview training ahead of their part in deciding who the new PAYP administrator will be.

The youth council have also trained to review PAYP activities.

o2 Think Big Project

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0100

The multinational phone company, o2, has set up a new funding scheme for upcoming projects in theUK. o2 Think Big allocates �300 and various other goodies for projects they think are good enough, and recently CYC applied for funding for their ‘Active Opinion' project. This new scheme aims to collect the opinions of young people about sports & leisure facilities they use, and drumroll please we got through! This means that we have a page on the o2 Think Big website, and are able to apply to larger pots of money. Our first project with Active Opinion is a disabled Sporty Halloween-themed mini-conference (it sounds confusing, but it‘ll be great!).

We need lots of support on our o2 page to keep us going, so if you could spare a couple of seconds of your time, you can follow the link attached to this article and ‘like', comment or share our page, and follow our Twitter account.

Our o2 page: http://www.o2thinkbig.co.uk/en/Projects/Project-Home/?clubId=845

HBYC's Achievements 2010-2011

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Introduction

Over the past year the Hinckley and Bosworth Youth Council have continued to work with and for the young people from our Borough. We have worked towards many of our objectives set out by the young people of Hinckley and Bosworth from both our Conference this year and last. In this report we will set out to show you our main achievements of this year.

Summary Of Achievements

Last December we were lucky enough to be given the opportunity to run an Ice Rink in the Hinckley town Centre. Citizens of all ages came to use the facility, donating 50p each admission for charity. From the donations, a total of �690.52 was raised and 50% was donated to the Help Haiti Charity, and the other half went to the Air Ambulance, the Mayor’s chosen charity at the time.

Another purpose of the ice rink was to raise awareness of crime and age barriers. Volunteers from HBYC were situated in and around Hinckley town centre, with key rings and badges. These young people stopped passers-by and offered them these freebies. The badges said “Talk to me”, and the idea behind this was to try and encourage older and younger members of the public to break down barriers and talk!

During January we were also involved in a consultation regarding “Access to Services” where we discussed future options from a young person’s perspective on services such as libraries, Connexions and the emergency services. We were also able to help widen the consultation group of young people by adding the internet questionnaire to the Jitty website.

Also during January we took part in our annual team building Residential, this year at Lea Green. It was a particularly productive year, with each subgroup putting together presentations of their aims for the year and bidding for part of our budget to put their plans into actions. (More information about the subgroups below). We also were able to welcome new members into the group and improve our team work during this weekend. A group of HBYC members one evening spent a lot of time learning about where we fit into the Borough Council, learning about the way the Council is run and what we would like to see in the future in terms of the way we work together.

We have continued to run Teen Nights at Elements Night Club which provides a safe and alcohol-free evening for young people to get involved with. This has proved very popular and we now have over 500 young people attending.

Our Annual General meeting was held in March where our new Executive Committee was elected, details of which can be found at our home page.

Youth council representatives also assisted with the council-run Play Day in the summer. We helped run a variety of activities, such as face-painting, den-building and the water slide, and enjoyed it just as much as the children and young people actually attending the day! We also helped with both setting up and clearing away the materials needed for the day.

Four youth council representatives (Cassie Shilladay, Liam Mawhinney, Xavier Kirkcaldy and Libby Bonner) were involved in this year’s European Project, which ran from the 13^th to the 21^st July. The European project aims to bring together operation. This year it was located in Laatzen, Germany, near Hanover. It was an amazing experience for all involved and has created lasting friendships with people from Poland, Germany, Israel and France. During the trip they had a chance to visit Berlin, Hanover and Laatzen, sample local cuisine and learn lots about all the different nationalities involved. The trip greatly involved most people’s communication skills and confidence.

Our Annual “Voice of Young People” Conference was held this year at the new venue the “Hinckley Club for Young People”. We had a fantastic day which was extremely effective in setting forward our targets for the next year. We held workshops on the priorities set by young people in the last year’s Conference which were, “Drugs and Alcohol Awareness”, “Travellers Awareness”(which was linked with information about the new Hate Monitoring System) and “Young People and the Media”, where young people explored ways they could do positive things to be reported on instead of complaining about the negative view of young people today.

We were very pleased to be able to hold our Conference at the new HC4YP and were able to help advertise this fantastic new space by being the first group to hold an event there, particularly with so many young people from the surrounding areas.

During the Conference we also set our three main priorities for the coming year, which will become our new subgroups. These were voted for by the approximately 100 young people present at the conference and came out as:

Anti bulling and Stereotyping- we are already in the process of running a Creative Writing Competition on the subject of bullying for years 8 & 9 to raise awareness of the subject and get young people talking about it.

Safety on the streets- to work towards alternatives for young people drinking in parks/hanging around on the streets. Suggestions have already included more targeted nights at Elements clubs and a video to raise awareness about how to stay safe.
New Facilities and Cheaper things to do- to include working towards getting a replacement hoist at the Leisure Centre.

We will work towards these aims and have formed our subgroups accordingly for this year.

We hope to continue to work with you to collect the views of the young people of Hinckley and Bosworth and improve life for them and adults alike in and around the town in every way we can!

Report written by:
Chloe Thompson- Ex Chair of the Youth Council
Cassie Shilladay- Ex Vice Chair

NWL Voice Newsletter April 2011

Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Find out what young people in North West Leicestershire youth councils, area forums and school councils are involved in. Click to download now

New Chair of Charnwood Youth Council

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Stephanie is the new chair of Charnwood Youth Council. She was elected as the new chair at the elections in April. She is the third leader of the youth council since 2010 and will be leading on upcoming projects suck as ‘Face it B Green' and the annual Charnwood Youth Conference.

Stephanie said, “I have been with the youth council for a year now and would like to thank the other members for giving me the chance to lead the group".

“I feel that i always try my best with projects and felt it was time to take the next step and take on a new role within the youth council. As the new leader i will aim to make Charnwood a better place for young people with the support and confidence from the other youth councillors".

Youth Worker Joe added, “I have known Stephanie sice she first joined the youth council. I have seen her leadership qualities grow throughout her time with the youth council and will make a great impact on future projects".

Well Done Stephanie!