Live Argyll Community Learning Services - Youth Learning Update
Argyll and Bute Council · 5 February 2025
Back to Mid Argyll, Kintyre and the Islands Area Community Planning Group — 5 February 2025 and its agenda
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liveArgyll Community Learning Team Kintyre Youth Work Update - February 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 been developing their own youth voice model (details below) and will soon also be providing a regional voice for the NSPCC’s upcoming child safety online campaign. 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. Kintyre Youth Action Voice Model Following on from their completed youth consultation at the end of last year, the Action Group then began working on creating their own local Youth Voice Model. The group spent two days in Rothesay working with their peers in the Bute Youth Action Group exploring the UNCRC and their current platforms for sharing their views on matters that affect them. Collaboratively with Bute Youth Action, they all voted in favour of creating their own youth led model and have been working on developing it ever since. As such, the Kintyre Youth Action Council has been formed, and the group will begin chairing their own ‘youth voice’ meetings this February with the support of local Councillor’s. The hope is that if successful, this youth led movement can be replicated across Argyll and Bute to provide a unified youth led platform for young people to bring about positive change ‘for young people, by young people.’
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The group will be working in collaboration with Aberdeen Youth Movement to develop their model moving forward and would like to put on record their thanks to the local Councillor’s who have offered to listen and support them. They very much look forward to working with you in February and beyond. If you work for a relevant service or organisation and would like to get involved and support the Kintyre Youth Action Council in their endeavours, then please contact Jamie.titterton@liveargyll.co.uk. If you know young people who would like to sign up, they can do so here: https://bit.ly/kintyre-youth-action-council. Learning Support Employability The local youth work lead has once again been working alongside a colleague from SDS to provide an employability skills development programme to learning support students in school. The project aimed to support young people to build confidence by building on existing skills and gaining knowledge to support the group once they leave school. This is the third year of the programme and once again the young people have completed a Dynamic Youth Award for their work. Wider Achievement Awards The local youth lead continues to deliver wider achievement awards to young people taking part in volunteering, outdoor learning, and personal/skills development programmes in local schools (including Campbeltown Grammar, Tarbert Academy, and Islay High School). The awards are accredited at different levels and support young people by evidencing their extra-curricular achievements and providing accredited qualifications for when they finish school. MSYP Support The local youth lead continues to provide support to Alasdair Paisley MSYP (Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament) for Argyll and Bute. Alasdair has had a very busy period and will update the Partnership separately on his work very soon. Friday Night ‘Street Sports’ 2025 Later this month, the Friday Night ‘Street Sports’ Programme will be returning for a third year at the Aqualibrium All Weather Pitch in Campbeltown. This 6-week programme provides a useful transitions project for P7 pupils about to move up to the Grammar by allowing them to engage in positive healthy mixed sports activities with S1 – S4 pupils and staff from various supporting organisations. Delivered in partnership with South Kintyre Active Schools, this programme is also supported by The Hub, CGS, KADAS, Police Scotland, and others who also provide delivery support and allow young people to engage with a number of services to make them
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more accessible and develop relationship building opportunities with young people in the local area. The young people take various non-competitive activities such as football, touch rugby, bowling, golf, boxing, swimming, rounders, a sponsored cycle and other activities. Funded by the Campbeltown Community Windfarm Fund (CCWF), continued engagement in these positive behaviours is encouraged with young people who complete the programme earning themselves a day trip to Glasgow to take part in fun activities including trampolining and laser tag. What’s on for Young People in Kintyre? In collaboration with staff from Campbeltown Grammar School, we have set up an online directory of programmes and activities aimed at young people in the Kintyre area. Eventually, we hope this will provide a ‘one stop shop’ of what is available for young people in the area, and would encourage any service or organisation to get in touch (jamie.titterton@liveargyll.co.uk) if they have relevant opportunities that they would like added to the directory which can be found here: https://sites.google.com/ab.glow.scot/kintyre-groups-timetable/home. Regular Ongoing Projects • Music Group • Writing Group • Inclusion Group Please contact Jamie.titterton@liveargyll.co.uk for any questions, comments, networking, or partnership working suggestions.