Over the last few years, Mental Health has been one of the most important issues to young people in Oldham in the Make Your Mark ballot. This is why Mental Health is one of the priorities of the Youth council and Youth Mayor right now. We made a list of some services available to young…
WELCOME Apologies – Tia H., Isabelle A. The meeting was opened by the chair with good news from Youth Councillors. STAYING APOLITICAL IN MEETINGS As an organisation, the Oldham Youth Council is apolitical, meaning it does not affiliate itself with any political party. However, being apolitical can differ from how it is perceived in as…
The 10th of July saw Oldham Youth Council submitting a motion, to Oldham Council’s Full Council meeting, regarding Knife Crime. This comes from Oldham Youth Council having taken up Knife Crime as one of its main priorities for the 2018/20 Term of Office, due to ‘Put an end to knife crime’ being the top issue…
WELCOME Apologies :- Katie R., Alex R., Megan B. OLDHAM PLEDGE – SUZY CHAPMAN Suzy and Laura from Oldham Pledge has come into the meeting to hand over a certificate from the OP that shows OYC’s support of the pledge. YOUTHFORIA – LOUIS TWEEDLE Louis from the Youthforia Steering group is attending meetings of different…
In the 2018 Make Your Mark Consultation, 1,867 young people chose tackling homelessness as their priority issue making it the second highest issue behind ending knife crime. In January 2019 we had the opportunity to get involved in a new initiative for Oldham called Real Change. Real Change raises funds from business and the public…
A STANDARD DAY With Mental Health still showing in the top 5 issues for Make Your Mark consultation the Oldham Youth Council wanted to keep working towards making a difference with this issue. Over the past 8 years, starting with the SNAP campaign then the I Love Me campaign the youth council had raised awareness…
WELCOME Apologies :- Amber C., Nathan W., Afsana K., SINGLE USE PLASTIC Justine Addy from Oldham Council is wanting to put in a Single Use Plastic policy in Oldham Council to help the environment due to the recent spike in media attention to the dumping of single use plastic. Justine wants to swiftly set a…
WELCOME Apologies :- Joe W., Armaan, Isaac Q. GOOD NEWS After a long summer with many doing different activities, youth councillors shared a piece of good news. MAKE YOUR MARK SESSION With Make Your Mark coming in full swing, it’s time to get into schools and make sure every young person’s voice in…
WELCOME Apologies :- Amber C., Isabelle A., Alex R. VOICE OF CHILD STRATEGY CONSULTATION Andy Rudkin from the Oldham Council Communications team came into the meeting to talk about the Voice of the Child strategy. The ambition of the strategy is to make sure that young people are; School, work and life ready. Having…
WELCOME Apologies :- Stefany M., Alex R., Samah K. READING FRIENDS – POSSIBLE PROJECT Chris has been contacted by Oldham Library about the Reading Friends project. Aimed at helping lonely and isolated old people, the project aims to help stop loneliness felt by elderly people. Doing activities such as crafts, dementia friendly cinema and…
