Author: Cardiff Youth Council

The new vision for Cardiff, Stronger Fairer Greener was publicly launched by the Leader of Cardiff Council, Cllr Huw Thomas, on the 19th July in the Parkgate Hotel, on Westgate Street.

Our very own Chair – Mia John and Vice Chair – Saffron Vanderkolk-Pellow hosted the event.

Stronger Fairer Greener replaces Capital Ambition, it sets out the priorities of the Leader and the members of his Cabinet to deliver:

A Stronger Cardiff: Attracting new investment and businesses into the city, boosting economic productivity, creating good-quality jobs in Cardiff’s high-value and foundational sectors, and boosting our resilience to climate change and associated environmental threats.

A Fairer Cardiff: Delivering excellent education, training, into work and social services, as well as transport connectivity, to ensure that all citizens are able to benefit from Cardiff’s growth and the new opportunities it creates.

A Greener Cardiff: Delivering a robust network of active travel and public transport, making Cardiff a ’15-minute city’, generating renewable energy and enhancing local biodiversity, ensuring that growth is sustainable and aligned with our commitment to becoming a Carbon Neutral City by 2030.

Lansiwyd y weledigaeth newydd ar gyfer Caerdydd, Cryfach, Tecach, Gwyrddach yn gyhoeddus gan Arweinydd Cyngor Caerdydd, y Cynghorydd Huw Thomas, ar 19 Gorffennaf yng Ngwesty’r Parkgate, ar Heol y Porth.

Ein Cadeirydd ni ein hunain – Mia John a’r Is-Gadeirydd – Saffron Vanderkolk-Pellow oedd yn cynnal y digwyddiad.

Cryfach Tecach Gwyrddach yn disodli Uchelgais Prifddinas, mae’n nodi blaenoriaethau’r Arweinydd ac aelodau ei Gabinet i gyflawni:

Caerdydd Gryfach: Denu buddsoddiad a busnesau newydd i’r ddinas, hybu cynhyrchiant economaidd, creu swyddi o ansawdd da yn sectorau sylfaenol a gwerth uchel Caerdydd, a rhoi hwb i’n gallu i wrthsefyll newid yn yr hinsawdd a’r bygythiadau amgylcheddol cysylltiedig.

Caerdydd Tecach: Darparu addysg, hyfforddiant, gwaith a gwasanaethau cymdeithasol rhagorol, yn ogystal â chysylltedd trafnidiaeth, i sicrhau bod pob dinesydd yn gallu elwa ar dwf Caerdydd a’r cyfleoedd newydd y mae’n eu creu.

Caerdydd Wyrddach: Darparu rhwydwaith cadarn o deithio llesol a thrafnidiaeth gyhoeddus, gan wneud Caerdydd yn ‘ddinas 15 munud’, cynhyrchu ynni adnewyddadwy a gwella bioamrywiaeth leol, gan sicrhau bod twf yn gynaliadwy ac yn gyson â’n hymrwymiad i ddod yn Ddinas Carbon Niwtral drwy 2030.

On Wednesday, July 13th 2022 Cardiff Youth Council (CYC) elections for Chair and Vice-Chair took place with 3 candidates putting themselves forward for election. All candidates delivered speeches to say why they wanted to, and should be, elected as Chair or Vice-Chair. They also took questions from members.

This year the following people stood for the positions of Chair & Vice-Chair of CYC:

• Mikaeel Moulani
• Zack Hellard
• Arthur Templeman-Lilley

CYC and the the Child Friendly Cardiff (CFC) team thanks all candidates for putting themselves forward in such a courageous way, for delivering some inspiring speeches and answering all questions that CYC put forward.

Mikaeel and Zack were duly elected as Chair and Vice-Chair of CYC in the closest run election that we have seen, and has also given us our youngest ever Chair (Mikaeel, 11 years old), so a huge congratulations to all.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank Mia John and Saffron Vanderkolk-Pellow for their time as Chair and Vice-Chair. We wish them the very best in their future endeavours, please don’t be strangers and keep in touch.

Racial Discrimination

1. Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto- Jinthana Haritaworn
2. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration- Isabel Wilkerson
3. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City- Tanya Talaga
4. The New Jim Crows: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colour-blindness- Michelle Alexander
5. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present- Robyn Maynard
6. Natives- Akala
7. So You Wany to Talk About Race- Ijeoma Oluo
8. Making of the Black Working Class in Britain- Ron Ramdin
9. How to Be an Antiracist- Ibram X. Kendi
10. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
11. Between the World and Me- Ta-Nehisi Coates
12. The Hate U Give- Angie Thomas
13. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism- Robin DiAngelo
14. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You- Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
15. My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women- Lyse Doucet

LGBTQ+ Discrimination

1. Queering Urban Justuce: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto- Jinthana Haritaworn
2. Good As You- Pail Flynn
3. We Are Everywhere: Protests, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation- Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown
4. How we Fight for Our Lives- Saeed Jones
5. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir- Samra Habib
6. Queer Intention- A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTG+ Culture- Amelia Abraham
7. Trans Britain: Our Journey From The Shadows- Christine Burns
8. The Stonewall Reader- The New York Public Library, Jason Baumann and Edmund White
9. The Argonauts- Maggie Nelson
10. Tomorrow Will Be Different- Sarah McBride
11. A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns- Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson
12. The Book of Pride- Mason Funk
13. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches- Audre Lorde

 Gender Discrimination

1. Invisible Women: Exposing the Gender Bias Women Face Every Day- Caroline Criado-Perez
2. Men Who Hate Women- Laura Bates
3. Women, Race and Class- Angela Davis
4. The Authority Gap- Mary Ann Sieghart
5. Men Explain Things to Me- Rebecca Solnit
6. The Cost of Sexism- Linda Scott
7. Enough: The Violence Against Women and How to End It- Harriet Johnson
8. Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women White Feminists Forgot- Mikki Kendall
9. Everyday Sexism- Laura Bates
10. The Guilty Feminist- Deborah Frances-White
11. The Vindication of the Rights of Woman- Mary Wollstonecraft
12. A Room of One’s Own- Virginia Woolf
13. Feminism is for Everybody- Bell Hooks
14. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches- Audre Lorde
15. This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition- Cherríe Moraga
16. We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
17. Bad Feminist- Roxane Gay
18. Girl Up- Laura Bates
19. Women and Power- Professor Mary Beard
20. Motherhood: Feminism’s Unfinished Business- Eliane Glaser

The Environment and Climate Change

1. How to Give Up Plastic- Will McCallum
2. Storming the Wall-Todd Miller
3. Small is Beautiful- Ernst T Schumacher
4. All We Can Save- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K Wilkinson
5. The Unhabitable Earth: Life After Warming- David Wallace-Wells
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants- Robin Wall Kimmerer
7. Net Zero: How We Can Stop Climate Change- Dieter Helm
8. The Future We Choose- Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
9. Living Planet- Sir David Attenborough
10. No One is Too Small to Make a Difference- Greta Thunberg
11. The Sixth Extinction- Elizabeth Kolbert
12. There is No Planet B- Mike Berners-Lee
13. The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide- Jen Gale
14. What We Need to do Now: for a Zero Carbon Future- Chris Goodall

On Wednesday 6th April, 3 members of Cardiff Youth Council (CYC) stood for the position of Member of the UK Youth Parliament (MYP). All candidates delivered a speech on why they should be elected. They also took questions from other youth council members on what their priorities would be (for their campaign), ways that they will take others views into consideration and how they will engage with seldom heard groups (including those who are not CYC members).

This year the following people stood for the position:

• Zack Hellard
• Shifa Shahzad
• Qahira Shah

CYC and the Child Friendly Cardiff (CFC) congratulate all the candidates for putting themselves forward in such an inspiring and brave way, delivering some great speeches and for answering all questions that CYC members had for them.

Zack Hellard & Shifa Shahzad have been duly elected as the new Members of the UK Youth Parliament for Cardiff for the next 2 years.

Below are statements each new MYP –

Zack: After 4 years of listening and learning from the young people of Cardiff I have been given the fantastic opportunity and trust to represent them, their issues and their needs as one of Cardiff’s newest Members of the UK Youth Parliament. Now is the time for action; with honest and hard work, along with the cooperation and support of the young people of Cardiff, I intend to make a difference- to ensure that every voice across Cardiff is heard and taken into account. 

Shifa: I wanted to become an MYP so that I could make meaningful change, not only in my own community but across the nation. Having achieved the role, now I can see that I will be able to do just that, and much more. The number of opportunities and support that has already been given is mind-blowing, and I’m so glad to be a part of this new community. I’m excited to serve my constituency and look forward to seeing what comes next!

We would like to thank Victor Ciunca for their work over the last few years as an MYP.

CYC welcome and support members of the LGBTQ+ community

Pride LHDTC+

CIC yn croesawu ac yn cefnogi aelodau o’r gymuned LHDTC+

This evening CYC had their General Meeting on Churchill Way’s new, but temporary, grassy knoll installed as part of the Child Friendly City’s Summer of Smiles.

5 candidates put themselves forward to stand as the new Chair and Vice Chair of CYC and each answered questions put to them by other CYC members. The candidates were:

Saffron Pellow

Martha Templeman-Lilley

Mia John

Eshaan Rajesh

Logan Colis

Congratulations to all of them, voting is now open and the results will be announced on Monday 19th July – Good luck all!!!!