
Ally Conference
Tuesday 21st February 2017
Oldham Youth Council and Oldham Theatre Workshop invited schools from all over Oldham to come together and develop ideas to stop discrimination.
Tuesday 21st February 2017
Oldham Youth Council and Oldham Theatre Workshop invited schools from all over Oldham to come together and develop ideas to stop discrimination.
Welcome Marouf welcomed everyone including guests from Madhlo who had come along to take part in a consultation. Apologies Melissa, George, Roshni Consultation Members from Mahdlo came along to the meeting to join a consultation about facilities and what they want to see in Oldham town centre. Ideas are shown on green post-its The group…
Welcome With Marouf and Ge at full council meeting and both Amber and Samah sending their apologies we have Roshni as chair and Jade as secretary. Other apologies from: Isabelle, Jess C, Branden, Nazmul, Jahanzeib, Marya, Nayema, Usmaan, Jake and T.Jay Takeover Challenge – Consent letters were handed out and names were taken down of…
Welcome apologies – Hannah, Shariq, Suraya, Tasneem, Lydia, Ge, Khadija, Alan Question Time Marouf asked the youth council whether they had got ten questions each to ask Council leaders for question time and that they should email or Facebook message Chris with them. Marouf stressed that it was very important to attend and that Youth Councillors…
Welcome Apologies – Alan, Jasmine, Amber, Khadija, Make your mark The Radclyffe school speeches. Students from Radclyffe School had been researching make your mark in their citizenship lessons. They were asked to write speeches about the issues most important to them and delivered their speeches to the meeting. The issues were race and religious discrimination (were they talked…
Date: Wednesday 16th September 2015 Venue: Lees Suite Apologies: Elliot Grimes, Suraya Uddin, Nazmul Islam Agenda Item Key Points Action Oldham Way Challenge Oldham Way Challenge certificates awarded to all those who took part, and celebratory picture taken. Those involved – who have not already done so, to bring in sponsor money. Make Your Mark…
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OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY – YOUTH VAPING (OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY PANEL) Cllr Eddie Moores, Cllr Colin McLaren, and other councillors from the Overview and Scrutiny panels attended the Youth Council meeting to discuss strategies to deter young people from using tobacco and vapes. It was noted that vapes are increasingly perceived as a lifestyle choice rather…
YOUTHFORIA WORKSHOP OLDHAM (PENELOPE AND AALIYAH) The next YouthForia on the 7th of October will be held in Oldham, and its theme is on Black History Month with the title of “Saluting Our Sisters”. Oldham are holding a workshop at this YouthForia, hence this section of the meeting focussed on generating the ideas and searching…
UKYP ANNUAL CONFERENCE (TOM) One of our MYPs, Tom, went to the UKYP Annual Conference in the end of July. Here he mentioned two things he learned other MYPs nationally did and wanted to see if OYC would like to do these. This includes one MYP getting all schools in their local authority to provide…