The Myplace young people's bid team has been a small and committed group of young people who can truly see the opportunity that a 'World Class Youth Centre' would bring to the city. Its been a pleasure to work with them.
The challenge is to find a way that more young people can have meaningful, relevant and ongoing involvement in the process. Whether this is a parallel bid and planning team or something different, their experience of working together on the project should act as preparation for them to take opportunities to influence. Those opportunities to influence should be provided as a matter of priority and it should begin right now!
We are free to create a system of influence which truly works and we have an ideal opportunity to do this with the myplace project.
CJ :: Inspired Youth
Friday, 28 November 2008
Myplace the final Session
Session Aims
• To review the project so far
• To catch up with progress since August
• To decide a way forward for the Young People’s Bid Team
The group were asked to respond to the following statement;
“I know how young people can be involved in future myplace planning”
The red marks show how the group felt at the beginning of the session, the blue/green marks show how they felt at the end.
RECAP:
First we talked through the activities that the group had taken part in over the last 4 months. It was important to remind ourselves of how far we had come, what thinking had been done and what actions taken. We then began to look at what events had taken place behind the scenes since we last met in August.
PLANNING:
Mike from Wm Saunders Architects updated the group on the planning process. He explained the architectural drawings of the planned site and described the changes that would be made to the original building which the group had visited back in August.
3 MONTHS IN 3 MINUTES:
In order to explain the sequence of events that followed our last meeting we acted out a short role-play. The group moved around the room recreating specific events and introducing all the people who had been involved, such as;
- The Young People's Bid Team
- The Elected Members of Council (EMAP)
- The Planners and Architects
- The Railway Institute
- The Office of the Rail Regulator
- The Council Bid Team
- Voluntary & Community Groups from across York
- The Big Lottery (The people who are giving out the money)
THE FUTURE:
The result of the events was that the Council Bid Team had made the decision not to put in a bid this time round. They would wait until the next round of applications is opened in order to have a better chance at providing an excellent bid.
We took the opportunity to reflect on how the Young People's Bid Team had been involved in the process; what changes would help young people to be actively involved?
The group worked on three areas, going back to the principles of a 'World Class Youth Centre' they looked at ;
- How to make sure as many young people as possible were involved (Representation)
- Planning of sevices (Commissioning)
- Running myplace and what systems we need now and in the future (Governance)
The activity turned into an interesting debate.
• To review the project so far
• To catch up with progress since August
• To decide a way forward for the Young People’s Bid Team
The group were asked to respond to the following statement;
“I know how young people can be involved in future myplace planning”
The red marks show how the group felt at the beginning of the session, the blue/green marks show how they felt at the end.
RECAP:
First we talked through the activities that the group had taken part in over the last 4 months. It was important to remind ourselves of how far we had come, what thinking had been done and what actions taken. We then began to look at what events had taken place behind the scenes since we last met in August.
PLANNING:
Mike from Wm Saunders Architects updated the group on the planning process. He explained the architectural drawings of the planned site and described the changes that would be made to the original building which the group had visited back in August.
3 MONTHS IN 3 MINUTES:
In order to explain the sequence of events that followed our last meeting we acted out a short role-play. The group moved around the room recreating specific events and introducing all the people who had been involved, such as;
- The Young People's Bid Team
- The Elected Members of Council (EMAP)
- The Planners and Architects
- The Railway Institute
- The Office of the Rail Regulator
- The Council Bid Team
- Voluntary & Community Groups from across York
- The Big Lottery (The people who are giving out the money)
THE FUTURE:
The result of the events was that the Council Bid Team had made the decision not to put in a bid this time round. They would wait until the next round of applications is opened in order to have a better chance at providing an excellent bid.
We took the opportunity to reflect on how the Young People's Bid Team had been involved in the process; what changes would help young people to be actively involved?
The group worked on three areas, going back to the principles of a 'World Class Youth Centre' they looked at ;
- How to make sure as many young people as possible were involved (Representation)
- Planning of sevices (Commissioning)
- Running myplace and what systems we need now and in the future (Governance)
The activity turned into an interesting debate.
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