Across the county there are groups of young people actively participating in district / borough youth forums and councils. This page provides information or links to their work. The MYPs work as closely as possible with all of these forums and actively listen to their voices and opinions to influence their priorities.
Over the last couple of week the forest of dean have been looking for a newly appointed youth engagement worker and what other way to go about then, ask the people of the forest to vote for who they what. Read more...
On the 17 July Yahya and myself were offered an invitation to the annual forest youth forum conference, we were of course honoured to accept this invitation however unfortunately, Yahya was unable to attend.
MYPs are currently planning a youth forum event, ‘One County One Voice’, which aims to bring young people from countywide and district forums and councils together enabling young people to share ideas, engage with decision makers and develop new skills
The Forest Youth Forum is a group of young people aged 13 to 19 years who live in the Forest district and meet fortnightly to discuss issues that matter to young people.