Election time!

Last night was the third Youth Cabinet election.  The election was held at the monthly Vale Youth Forum meeting and 11 VYF members presented their manifestos.  Candidates gave passionate speeches in a chance to be voted as one of six Youth Cabinet members.  Everyone wanted the vote!  The new Youth Cabinet will be in office until September 2017.  Check out this short video for a snippet of the candidates manifestos:

Get in touch!

#YouthVoice

As Youth Mayor I recently attended the Youth Voice Development Programme run by the British Youth Council.  It was a great experience where I met over 200 young people who are involved in youth forums, youth councils and who are also Youth Mayor and Members of UK Youth Parliament.  I took part in lots of workshops to develop essential skills that I can bring to my role and to the Youth Cabinet such as leadership skills; learning how to plan and run campaigns; information about the Don't Hate Educate campaign and much more.  Read this article for more information.

Strong Communities with a Bright Future

At last night's Youth Cabinet meeting we met with officers from the Vale of Glamorgan Council who discussed the new corporate plan called Strong Communities with a Bright Future. The document sets out what the council wants to achieve for the Vale over the next four years and explains how they are going to do it.  Supporting the well-being of people and communities is really important and they are going to do that in different ways.  A summary of the document can be seen below.

As a Youth Cabinet we are looking forward to working with the council to help design and create a digital animation to help raise awareness of the plan so as many people as possible know about it.  

 

Young Carers Speak Out!

Last Thursday I attended the Young Carers Speak Out event. It was amazing to see so many young carers at the event, and what was even more pleasing was that young carers from the Vale of Glamorgan and Cardiff planned and organised the whole day! 

Some of the results of the Young Carers survey were launched, and it was great to see so many young carers actively getting their voices heard, and hopefully the results from the survey will be acted upon by decision makers in Wales.      

The day was superb, (the young people involved deserve huge congratulations).  There was a magician, photo booth and workshops run by professionals where young carers learnt essential skills such as first aid. Not forgetting the market place, where one stall was even cooking food as a demonstration for the young people.  It goes without saying that it was a big hit with everyone at the event. The market place also had live music, and I can’t forget to mention the Vale Rights Ambassador stall that spread the word of the UNCRC.  The day was a load of fun, and was a well-deserved chance for all the young carers to have a break, from their selfless lives and daily hard work. Dan (Youth Mayor)