Member of Youth Parliament

Your Member of Youth Parliament for 2011 – 12 is Amy Longland, Jay Newton is the Deputy Member of Youth Parliament.

Amy’s latest blog

I’m Amy Longland, and what have I been up to since being elected as Member of Youth Parliament?  Well, I’ve been doing lots of things to tell you about – so much I haven’t yet had a chance to write my first blog!  Sorry guys…

Since starting my role as Youth MP I have atended many meetings such as the Children’s Trust Board, Community Safety Conference and the Neighbourhood Partnership committee within the borough to gather experience and relevant knowledge about youth services that are produced in the borough – not to mention representing young people and giving them a voice on things that affect them.

I have also attended youth forums such as Youth 10 and the Youth Opportunity Fund which gave me the opportunity to hear the views of young people.  Being able to attend the Youth Opportunity Fund meetings allowed me the opportunity to give other young people the chance and financial aid to fulfill their ambitions.

Campaign-wise, I am working on promoting and improving communication and accessibility of youth services; I have created a facebook page for the youth mp and am working on making the activeyouth.co.uk website more well known amongst young people.  I am working on redesigning and ordering more activeyouth posters and leaflets to make them more appealing to young people.

I have attended many MYP campaign workshops to help mak my campaigns more effective, and I have currently released questionnaires at schools and youth clubs across the borough regarding youth safety, concerns and issues in order to fully establish about what I need to do about he safety aim of my campaign.  I have also been communicating closely with the owner of the Academy of self defence to investigate fund raising opportunites which will allow me to set up self defence workshops at schools and youth clubs in the near future!

Watch this space!

You can contact me via YouthMP@wokingham.gov.uk or via 07714226731.  You can also contact me via Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/update_security_info.php?wizard=1#!/pages/Youth-MP-for-Wokingham-Borough/143604329047775

If you are interested in standing to be the next Member of Youth Parliament, check out a previous candidat’es advice here.  For details on this years election look here or contact Sharon Holder for more details: sharon.holder@wokingham.gov.uk or 07714226731.

  You can contact the MYPs by emailing them via youthmp@wokingham.gov.uk or by calling Catriona on 07714226731 who will pass a message on to  them.