Live Argyll Community Learning Services - Youth Learning Update
Argyll and Bute Council · 5 November 2025
Back to Mid Argyll, Kintyre and the Islands Area Community Planning Group — 5 November 2025 and its agenda
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liveArgyll Community Learning Team Kintyre Youth Work Update November 2025 Kintyre Youth Action Group The Kintyre LiveArgyll Youth Work Service facilitates weekly meetings with the Kintyre Youth Action Group (based in Campbeltown and Tarbert). The Action Group carry out local community projects and regularly volunteer and represent young people’s views in the area by carrying out weekly meetings which involve regular focus groups and large-scale youth consultations on a two-yearly basis. The input from the Action Group ensures the local youth work service is entirely youth led by focussing on local youth views, issues and areas the young people would like to develop. The Action Group have recently developed their own youth led voice model alongside Bute Youth Action Group, which is now being rolled out across Argyll and Bute and is known as Argyll and Bute Youth Action Council (ABYAC). The Action Group are always available to consult with and to provide youth voice/perspectives on any issue, so please contact Jamie.titterton@liveargyll.co.uk if you have any enquiries. West Dumbartonshire Youth Voice Visit As part of their ongoing youth voice development work, members of Kintyre Youth Action Group and Bute Youth Action Group recently visited members of the West Dumbartonshire youth voice model. The young people spent the day together, getting to know each other, learning about each other’s respective models, their local areas, and exploring youth issues in the two different areas – common issues, as well as differences across the regions. The group learned a lot from this experience, and it allowed them to further develop their youth voice network and skills. A return visit from the young people of West Dumbartonshire will be arranged in the near future.
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NSPCC Child Safety Online Project Kintyre Youth Action Group members also continued their youth voice work by supporting the NSPCC to develop their current ‘Child Safety Online Campaign.’ The group took time out to work alongside staff and young people from the Scottish Youth Parliament to look at issues relating to child safety online; creating posters and recording podcast clips to support the project and ensure that local youth views are taken into account in the development of this very important project. Kintyre and Bute Exchange Visit and Surfing As part of their ongoing joint work, Bute Youth Action Group once again came to visit the Kintyre Youth Action Group recently, with the groups taking part in an overnight exchange which involved activities, including surfing lessons at Westport Beach with Pete’s Surf School. The young people had a wonderful time trying something new and enjoying one of the many fun activities available on their doorstep. Plans for further follow up lessons will be arranged for the Spring.
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Youth Voice Showcase – The Queen’s Hall, Dunoon (24th of November) Our Youth Action Groups and Council’s across Argyll and Bute are currently preparing for their Youth Voice Showcase event in The Queen’s Hall Dunoon on Monday the 24th of November. This will mark the official launch of the local authority wide Argyll and Bute Youth Action Council (ABYAC), the development of which has been led by members of the Kintyre and Bute Youth Action Group’s. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to learn about youth voice across Argyll and Bute and to find out more about how services and decision makers can better support it, as well as their own implementation of the UNCRC article 12.
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If any relevant partners would be interested in attending this event, please email Jamie.titterton@liveargyll.co.uk for more information or to book your space. Kintyre Youth Voice Ambassador’s Being introduced at the Showcase event will be new Youth Voice Ambassador’s who are currently going through the process of being elected by the local Youth Action Group’s. These experienced and talented young people will take a lead role in developing youth voice across Argyll and Bute as part of their new ABYAC model. More information on the two successful candidates representing Kintyre will be provided at the next meeting. Regular Ongoing Projects • Wider Achievement Accredited Awards in Campbeltown Grammar School, Tarbert Academy, and Islay High School • Music/Arts Group • Writing Group • Inclusion Group Please contact Jamie.titterton@liveargyll.co.uk for any questions, comments, networking, or partnership working suggestions.