A lot of organisations contact us wanting advice or training to involve young people in meetings or adult committees. Generally this leads to an indepth conversation about how they should be looking to do a fair bit of preparatory work to get to this stage - however the reality is that many organisations still ‘involve young people’ by plonking a couple on a committee and hoping they’ll contribute ever so now and again (or at least not make too much mess!).

Cynicism aside even organisations with a genuine desire for young people to participate sometimes find themselves in the position of holding an ‘adult’ meeting with some young people who haven’t been well prepared. So what can you do when in this situation to make the meeting process more relevant (more…)

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Heres a few pics from the cycle across Wales. We cycled roughly 150 miles taking a windy route from Chester to Anglesey. Along the way we stayed at campsites in Hendre (near Mold), Towyn, Penmaenmawr, Bangor and finally Red Wharf Bay.

The money we raise will be used to support the work YoMo are doing overseas - currently (more…)

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At the end of August some of us took part in a sponsored cyle across North Wales, cycling from Chester to Anglesey over 5 days covering roughly 30 miles each day and camping along the route.

Eight of us set off to cycle and we were well supported by a couple of volunteers Becky somehow roped in to set up tents and drive the heavy kit from site to site.

This was the fifth sponsored cycle I’ve been involved with - the first one was in 1998 and was the idea of some young people I was working with who (more…)

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I’m not in favour of young people being ‘paid to volunteer’ in fact I’m strongly against it. Nothing in my experience has demonstrated any need to do this - of course all volunteers should have their expenses covered but talk of payment is simply a desperate act to recruit to ‘fill the figures’ in my opinion. I am in favour of young people being paid where they earn it and where its appropriate - but this is not volunteering.

To further complicate the definition of volunteering (or lack of) now CSV (Community Service for Volunteering) are apparently suggesting that there could be a compulsory service of volunteering! Quite how ‘compulsory’ and ‘volunteering’ have been (more…)

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