Taff Youth Forum

Taff Youth Forum

YEPS are fully committed to supporting young people in RCT to have a voice in their community and make a positive difference to where they live and for those around them. We aim do this with 3 local youth forums in Rhondda, Cynon and Taff that you can now join.

If you are aged 11-25 and live in RCT you can be a part of one of our Youth Forums and work on community projects, support services tackling key issues and receive training that can help with vital skills for the future. More importantly YOU can have YOUR say on what happens where you live and on the key decisions in your area.

What is a youth forum?

A youth forum is run and developed by young people for young people. Youth forums exist to represent the views of young people, giving them the opportunity to be heard on their ideas, opinions and needs. This creates a space where young people can discuss issues, engage with decision makers such as youth workers, governance boards and staff of other organisations, and contribute to improving and developing services for young people.

Why join a youth forum?

• Gain/Increase confidence
• Learn new skills
• Make a difference
• Build new relationships
• Add it to your CV/college applications/UCAS
• Be empowered and take a lead in decision making
• See your ideas come to life
• Earn rewards 
• Because it’s fun!

To join the Taff Youth Forum click here to book your place.

Dates:

• 17/02 – 5pm – 7pm
• 17/03 – 5pm – 7pm
• 14/04 – 5pm – 7pm

Venue: YMa 28 Taff St, Pontypridd CF37 4TS

Staff Lead: Louisa Walters / Rhys James

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louisa’s Contact details: 07368 127408 / louisa.walters@rctcbc.gov.uk 
Rhys’ Contact details: 07825 675704 / Rhys.James@rctcbc.gov.uk

Taff Forum Meeting 20.01.2025

Attendance: Miley, Khandi, Tori, Alfie, Callie, Eilidh, Jacob and Dylan.

Staff: Louisa & Rhys.

Welcome/catch up:

We welcomed back returning forum members and the forum welcomed a new member. We started the session with a catch up and discussion on what everyone has been up to over Christmas.

Activity 1: Group Contract

We revisited our forums group contract with a focus on Respect, Participation and Empathy. We used these words to form our group contact, then each of us signed it to agree that we will show respect, empathy and be participative.

Activity 2: Why have a youth forum?

During this activity we went back to basics! We discussed why have a youth forum, this was done by reading out a number of reasons of why we should have a youth forum and we discussed/debated whether we thought each reason was either: Very Important, Quite Important or Not Important

Discussion: Resources and Projects

We discussed and identified different resources that we would like to have during our forum sessions. We chose a variety of things like board games, arts/crafts and our mascot named Jeff. Next, we talked about different projects that we would like to do.

We identified different issues that we would like to tackle in our community like: –

• Street lighting on certain parts of the Taff Trail
• Lack of youth club/youth activities in Pontypridd town centre
• Vaping

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next Session on the 17/02/25, we will be revisiting the roles and responsibilities of each forum member and we will vote on who takes on each role.