WELCOME Apologies :- Tia H., Nathan W. Samah started off the meeting with Good News. Lightning talks return next meeting. SPLAT Afsana played a game of splat with youth councillors to bring in a lively mood. MANIFESTO After the group discussions from the last meeting (25/07/18), Sam wrote up the information to form…
WELCOME Apologies :- Nathan R. ELECTIONS This meeting had the Officer elections for the next 12 months. As from decided from the previous meeting (11/07/18) the roles that are up in this election are Communications Officer, Events and Outreach Officer, Two Campaigns Officers and Well-being officer. Due to the right amount of candidates running…
WELCOME Apologies :- Katie W., Sarah N., Nathan W., Jade C. The meeting began with Samah’s Lightning Talks, but due to it being mocks week, all three lightning talks for this meeting were postponed from the next meeting (21/03/18). LMI Jonathan Burbridge and a team from Positive Steps came in to talk about Work…
Hey, I’m Amber Powell, I am the current Chair of Oldham’s Youth Council. I began my journey as a Youth Councillor because I had just moved into the Oldham area and well my mother said so … but as most people say mothers are always right- I heard that I had been successful on a…
This is a dictionary of words that the definitions are commonly unknown to Youth Councillors. Words in the description that are red means that there is a description for that word in this dictionary too! Apolitical – This means that the group/organisation/individual holds no party political views. The OYC is an apolitical organisation. BYC –…
WELCOME Apologies :- Afsana K., Joe H., Nazmul I., Alex R., Roshni P. Amber started off the meeting with the ‘Guess the Councillor’ ice breaker. KOOTH.COM Claire came into the Youth Council to talk about the Oldham Youth Council commissioned Kooth.com , talking about extending the current contract for a further twelve months, leading the…
WELCOME Apologies: Katie W., Alex R., Joe H., Jess C., Jasmine R., Nazmul I. Amber started off the meeting with the ‘Guess the Councillor’ game. LSCB – PRIORITIES STEERING GROUP Chris talked to the Youth Council about Members if the Youth Council having meeting with the LSCB, forming a task force. MYM RESULTS – WHAT…
WELCOME Apologies – Amber P., Jessica W., Brandon G., Alex R., Jade C., Jess C., Jake S., Afsana K., Melissa D. Samah opened the meeting with the ‘Guess the Councillor’ Ice Breaker. COUNTER TERRORISM Jo Horton, Community Coordinator, from Oldham Council came into the Youth Council to talk about the Counter Extremism strategy, explaining Extremism,…
Every 6 weeks, a motivated and dedicated group of young people from the 23 regions of the North West, aged 11-18, meet at an event named Youthforia. The group consists of MYPs (for Oldham this is Nayema and Jade), DMYPs (Samah and Roshni) and youth councillors. We meet at various locations around the North West….
WELCOME Apologies – Nathan W., Jake S., Branden G. Amber started off the member with the ‘Guess the Councillor’ ice breaker. CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE STRATEGY Jodie and Bernie asked the Youth Council to complete a consultation based on Oldham’s six outcomes for children and young people, which are; able to achieve aspirations and expectations,…
