Live Argyll Community Learning Team - Youth Work Update
Argyll and Bute Council · 6 November 2024
Back to Mid Argyll, Kintyre and the Islands Area Community Planning Group — 6 November 2024 and its agenda
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Classification: OFFICIAL liveArgyll Community Learning Team Kintyre Youth Work - Autumn Update 2024 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 are always available to consult with and to provide youth voice/perspectives on any issue, so please contact the local youth lead for any enquiries (email at bottom). Kintyre Youth Action Group Consultation 2024 As noted above, the Kintyre Youth Action Group carry out a youth consultation in the local area every two years and their 2024 consultation results are now available. The group design the consultation, come up with ideas to get young people to complete it, and then analyse the results to draw their own conclusions. This ensures that every step of the consultation is led by local young people to ensure the enhancement of youth voice. The consultation results are available to anyone who wishes to read in order to better inform work with/for local young people. This, and the previous consultation report from 2022, can be read and downloaded from the following link: https://bit.ly/youth-consultations. Kintyre and Bute Youth Action Group Youth Voice Exchange Programme The Kintyre and Bute Youth Action Groups have once again been working together to find ways to enhance local youth voice. The Kintyre group travelled to Rothesay recently to work with the Bute group over two days where they took part in youth voice workshops. The aim of the workshops was to support the groups to find collective ways to further enhance youth voices and opinions in order to support young people to have more of a say and influence over decisions and issues that affect them. The groups spent a lot of time discussing Article 12 of the UNCRC (‘the right to have your voice heard’) and what this means for young people at local, area wide and national levels. The groups were supported during these two days by Alasdair Paisley MSYP, and also met with two local Councillors and a Youth Engagement Officer from Police Scotland to find out more about their roles and to consult with them on youth issues. The group will provide to the partnership an update on their youth voice work as soon as it is ready for sharing.
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Classification: OFFICIAL Kintyre Youth Action Cobbler Expedition Some members of the Kintyre Youth Action Group climbed The Cobbler over the summer to support their health and wellbeing, build their resilience, and raise money for their local community projects. The group overcame the heat on the hottest day of the year to scale the mountain via one of its more challenging routes. The group made it to the summit and completed a remarkable achievement and are now aiming towards climbing Ben Nevis next summer.
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Classification: OFFICIAL Learning Support Employability The local youth work lead will once again be working alongside a colleague from SDS to provide an employability skills development programme to learning support students in school. The aim of the project is 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 will be gaining a Dynamic Youth Award for their work on completion. 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 will provide his own update separately. 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.