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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The St Cyres School Head and Deputy Head Boys and Head Girls enjoyed their School Council training session last week in readiness to lead the whole School Council meetings for this academic year. We reviewed the ‘Terms of Reference’ and the students were trained in various roles including how to ‘Chair’ and ‘Minute’ a School […]
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Mae FI YDW I yn hapus i fod yn gweithio gyda GIP ar ein prosiect ymwybyddiaeth seiber fwlio newydd! // I AM ME is happy to be working with PYA on our new cyber bullying awareness project!
‘Covid-19’ and the resulting lockdown has forced Llantwit Youth Council to adjust the way we work. All of our work is currently being held online, via digital task groups and meetings. All of our meetings are held on Microsoft Teams. The meetings have been taking place regularly for the past two months and are similar […]
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We at Youth Cabinet held a question and answer event with members from the Vale of Glamorgan Council and managers from the Learning & Skills department including the Youth Service. We wanted to raise awareness of important issues to young people following COVID-19! Before the event, invitations were sent to different organisations, schools and youth […]
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