Since we originally created this task group we have worked hard to inform ourselves on youth homelessness across the Vale of Glamorgan. Since the previous Make your Mark results showed us that young people in Wales want more effort to go into reducing youth homelessness the Youth Cabinet 2020-21 wanted to form a task group […]
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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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It’s been awhile since an update, but we’re excited to share more of what we’re doing! Today in the meeting we have reviewed the video which was created last week and the week before in our previous meetings. As well as if we would head into schools and presenting our video and posters around the […]
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On the 26th May, members of Penarth Youth Action, Llantwit Youth Council, Rights Ambassadors, Youth Cabinet Youth Homelessness Task Group and the 18+ youth club, all took part in a focus group about Project Zero! Project Zero is the Vale of Glamorgan Council’s response to the climate change emergency. Project Zero brings together the wide […]
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This Summer term, the Vale Youth Service will be hosting a young person task group that will focus on ‘Youth Homelessness’. The topic from this task group was chosen by Youth Cabinet members following the Make Your Mark 2021 results for the Vale of Glamorgan which saw homelessness as one of the most voted for […]
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Today was our final meeting of our current term of office, after reviewing the minutes from our last meeting and catching up with one another, we took part in our ice breaker to get things moving. During the meeting Ashleigh Watkins our UKYP member for the Vale of Glamorgan provided us with feedback from her […]
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At this Youth Cabinet meeting we discussed youth homelessness and our campaign to lessen it in the Vale of Glamorgan. We invited a guest speaker, Sarah Collier, the Senior Worker for the Vale of Glamorgan Youth Homelessness Prevention Team to our meeting so that we could get a better understanding into the issue. It has […]
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Did you know it’s Fairtrade Fortnight between 22nd February and 7th March? We wanted to help raise awareness of this important issue so between now and the 7th March we have been working with the Youth Service to make sure that young people taking part in the digital themed week activities receive our Fairtrade information […]
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Today at our first Youth Cabinet meeting of 2021! It was great to be able to hold our first meeting of 2021 on Tuesday evening. It gave us an opportunity to discuss some of the local issues amongst young people and we came up with ideas of what we can do ourselves to try and […]
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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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The Make Your Mark 2020 ballot is now open and here is a message from our Member of Youth Parliament for the Vale of Glamorgan, Ashleigh Watkins… Do you want your voice heard? Now is your time! Make Your Mark is a campaign used to decipher the most prominent issues in our community, if you […]
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