Month: August 2018

CYC Members Receive Their MV Certificates

At the CYC General Meeting, which took place on June 20th in City Hall, a number of CYC members were awarded Millennium Volunteer certificates for their services to Cardiff Youth Council through their volunteering efforts.

MV is an award, backed by Welsh Government and supported through GwirVol, that recognises the contribution young people make to volunteering in Wales.
Young people can achieve the following awards;
• 50 hours certificate of recognition, MV 50 Sport or MV 50 Global
• 100 hours certificate of recognition
• 200 hours Award of Excellence, which is signed by the First Minister of Wales

The award is founded on 9 key principles which are;

• Personal commitment
• Community benefit
• Voluntary participation
• Ownership by young people
• Quality
• Recognition
• Inclusiveness
• Variety
• Partnership

At the general meeting 30 members received their Bronze Certificate, 21 their Silver Certificate and 8 received their Gold Award of excellence.

A big thank you must go out to Cllr Lee Bridgeman, Chair of Children & Young People’s Scrutiny Committee, who handed out the certificates to the youth council members.

The Future of Our Public Services

Cardiff is a growing city, and with success comes challenges as well as opportunities. Public organisations in the city and county of Cardiff are now working together to address short and long-term challenges, take preventative action, involve citizens and integrate their services to deliver greater well-being.

Cardiff Youth Council members attended an event on 8th May, at Cornerstone in Central Cardiff, to hear from Cardiff’s public service leaders on the future of public services in the capital city of Wales.

At the event Leaders of three of the public service bodies in Cardiff presented their vision, discussed their collaboration and answered questions on how they saw Cardiff’s public services working more closely together in the future.

These leaders were:

• Cllr Huw Thomas, Leader of Cardiff Council and Chair of the Cardiff Public Services Board
• Maria Battle, Chair of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and Vice-Chair of the Cardiff Public Services Board
• Alun Michael, South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner

At the event citizens of Cardiff also spoke and told their stories which illustrated the challenges we all face as well as the benefits that come from working together.

One of those citizens was our very own Victor Ciunca, a member of Cardiff Youth Council, and Member of the UK Youth Parliament, who gave his account of emigrating to Wales with his parents and the trials, tribulations and challenges that he and his family faced but also talked about the support he has received from his school, friends, peers and youth workers.

New CYC Chair & Vice Chair elected

On Wednesday, June 20th the Cardiff Youth Council (CYC) elections for Chair & Vice Chair took place with 8 candidates putting themselves forward for election. All candidates delivered a speech, in front of the full membership of CYC, to say why they wanted to, and should be, elected as the Chair or Vice Chair of CYC.

The candidates were:

• Daniel Burton
• Rose-Marie Melhuish
• Chloe Burrage
• Lois Render
• Rafael Fernandez
• Yasmin Bahary
• Tom Allabarton
• Edward Jones

CYC and Cardiff Youth Service congratulate all candidates for putting themselves forward in such a courageous way and for delivering some inspiring speeches.

Tom Allabarton and Chloe Burrage were duly elected as Chair and Vice Chair. They take over the roles from Stephanie Eseadum (Chair) and Edward Jones (Vice Chair) to whom CYC say a huge thank you for all of your hard work, commitment and dedication over the last 12 months.