Make Your Mark gives all young people aged 11-18 in the UK the chance to have a say on the biggest issues facing young people. Seven issues are presented to young people on a digital ballot, you vote in schools, colleges and youth club settings throughout February on the topics that matter most to you. […]
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Today’s task group meeting was recording our homelessness video and finalising our posters. These will be posted out hopefully sometime next month. The posters will be posted out around Barry and parks in the Vale of Glamorgan. We made a script and recorded voice over for youth homelessness video. We are close to finishing all […]
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The Spring 2021 term saw the formation of a new participation project including existing Youth Cabinet members whilst also welcoming young people from across the Vale to take part. The objective from the group has been to raise awareness of youth homelessness, specifically hidden homelessness. A number of task group meetings have been held where […]
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On April 31st, PYA celebrated our hard work over the last year by taking part in a virtual murder mystery session! Most of our work last year was done digitally on the Cyberbullying Awareness Campaign and the Cwrt Y Vil MUGA survey, we thought it would be interesting to try a digital team day too! […]
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Sustrans & Active Travel… Sustrans is the charity making it easier for people to walk and cycle. Connecting people and places, creating liveable neighbourhoods, transforming the school run and deliver a happier, healthier commute. Sustrans have recently launched a consultation on the Future Networks for Walking and Cycling in the Vale of Glamorgan. If you […]
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It’s #Vote16 week and it only takes one minute to register to vote! Register before 19 April 2021 to take part in the Senedd Election in May 2021, it takes as long as boiling noodles! #Vote16 #SeneddElection #Democracy To celebrate #Vote16 week the Vale of Glamorgan Council are running this amazing prize draw to win […]
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On the 02.02.2021, the Youth Cabinet met for their regular monthly meeting. This was a good opportunity to discuss many different topics and we started off the meeting by discussing how young people are coping with home schooling and how different schools have adapted to working online. For a while now, we have been working […]
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Your Member of Youth Parliament for the Vale of Glamorgan, Ashleigh Watkins presents the results of the Make Your Mark 2020 ballot. Given the challenges of the pandemic and the voting taking place digitally for the first time, the Vale of Glamorgan had one of the highest turnouts in Wales with 673 votes. The full […]
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PYA and I Am Me have finished our Cyber Bullying Awareness project! This has been a great opportunity to look at an important issue that effects young people. Since lockdown started people have started using social media more and more as a way to stay in touch with each other. We think this has been […]
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In Youth Cabinet we had so many discussions about our work during lockdown and its affects. So many, that we decided to arrange to speak with young people from across the Vale of Glamorgan to ask some questions about their experiences of participation in the Vale. We really wanted to find out the strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats […]
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We are in the final week of the Make Your Mark 2020 campaign and would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who has got involved and voted so far. In this unique year we’ve explored many different ways to support young people to vote on the issues they feel is important to […]
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PYA have teamed up with I.Am.Me to work on the Cyber Bullying Awareness Campaign. Both groups have been working hard in their task groups to create content that covers a variety of issues around cyber bullying. Some of the issues we have looked at so far include the laws, the statistics, LGBT+ cyber bullying and […]
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