Next meeting – next Monday 6.30pm at Colwyn Bay Youth Club.

See you there!

Funky Dragon is the National Youth Assembly for Wales.

School Councils rep – Jess Simonds

Voluntary Sector rep – Matthew Higgins

Statutory Sector rep – Elicia Highfield 

Equalities rep – Jade Mills

The role is about representing Conwy on a Wales wide level – part of the role includes going on some residential meetings in various places across Wales and taking part in Conwy Youth Council activities.

To find out more:

Contact Conwy Participation Team participation@conwy.gov.uk or look at Funky Dragon’s website – www.funkydragon.org.uk

Next meeting – Thursday 14th January 2010, 6.30pm at Conwy Youth Club, Conwy.

See you there!

Joy

Conwy Youth Council and the Children & Young People’s Partnership (CYPP) are working together to look at how we can improve the way bullying is sorted out in Conwy.

To do this we need YOU to tell us how it’s being sorted out now, what’s working, and what isn’t.

This questionnaire has been designed by some of the young people that are your representatives on Conwy Youth Council.

Anti-bullying questionnaire

6.30pm – 8.30pm

14th January – Conwy Youth Club
8th February – Colwyn Bay Youth Club, Douglas Road
9th March – Llandudno Junction Youth Club
14th April – Llandudno Junction Youth Club
13th May – Conwy Youth Club
14th June – Colwyn Bay Youth Club, Douglas Road
13th July – Llandudno Junction Youth Club

Get yourself entered into a prize draw for a 8GB Nano iPod by completing our questionnaire on children and young people’s rights.

(You need to be aged 25 and under, and living in Conwy county to enter – please provide your contact details so we can get in touch if you win!)

If you complete this questionnaire and sign up for our news you will be entered into the prize draw twice! It’s worth a try! (by 29 January 2010)

Next meeting – next Tuesday 6.30pm at Llandudno Junction Youth Club.

See you there!

August was an exciting and productive month with the Youth Council working with design company Youth Friendly (www.youthfriendly.co.uk) to create a leaflet and poster. They’re fresh off the printing press so keep an eye out for them…!

We’ve also been working on a questionnaire on bullying in Conwy. Before we can know how to improve the situation, we need to know what it’s like out there. Where, why, and how does bullying happen? What’s being done about it already – what works, what doesn’t?

During September we worked on creating a set of questions to find out what you know about your rights, and what is the best way for you to find out about your rights.

We had an opportunity to get some young people’s opinions on both of the above issues in our workshop at the School Councils’ Conference (October) but we want to get as many of your views and opinions as possible so please check out our website www.youngconwy.com/youthcouncil where you can tell us what you think.

To launch our website we are running a competition, so that when you put a comment on our blog you will be given an opportunity to enter a free prize draw for an 8GB nano ipod!

If you’re interested in any of these things or would like to ask us to look at a particular issue, please get in touch!

Next meeting – next Monday 6.30pm at the Council Chambers, Bodlondeb, Conwy.

See you there!

So who are your new reps…?

• Jess Simonds – School Councils Rep.
  Each school has to have a council, Jess’s role is to represent them on Funky Dragon.
• Ciaran Hall – Statutory Sector Rep
  Ciaran’s role is to represent you within the services that you receive e.g. libraries, leisure centres, social services, youth service and so on.
• Jade Mills – Equalities Rep
  Jade represents equalities issues e.g. race, sexuality, disability, vulnerable and minority groups etc.