Involving Young People in Leicestershire
Fred Rennie, Connexions Leicestershire, had a look at what has been done in Leicestershire over the past years to involve young people in local decision making. |
Attracting Young People into the
land based sector
Labour availability could be one of
the most significant factors affecting land based business in the
future. A small research project is now looking at how to encourage
young people into the industry. |
Rural Youth Network
The Rural Youth Network is a unique
organisation brigning together organisations who are engaged in work
with young people as well as rural development. |
RAZ
The South Holland RAZ boasts a
groundbreaking programme to tackle the problem of teenage pregnancy. |
CAST
Schemes such as CAST empower young
people and help to develop a sense of social responsibility.
Additionally it teaches employable skills particularly suited to the
rural economy! |
Rural Youth Partnership Dream Team
At the Emraf meeting on April 29th, Charlie Underwood, chair of the Rutland Youth Partnership gave a presentation about the way young people are included in Rutland through the Youth Partnership's Dream Team. This article lists the dreams and issues affecting the young people of Rutland and features the Dream Team model for the inclusion of young people. |
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This is what these youngsters had
to say about life in their
Derbyshire village:
"Very boring for young people,
we haven't even got a shop"
David, Age 14
"Lovely area to live,
but you have to travel out
of the area to shop or to
be involved in any social events"
Stephanie, Age 17
"There will always be positives
and negatives in every area"
Claire, Age 16
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Download the Powerpoint Presentation of these youngsters' views of the positive and negative sides of living in Taddington, Derbyshire as they presented it to EMRAF on April 29th 2004.
taddington.ppt
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Welcome to Rural Affairs, EMRAFs online-newsletter
with full-feature articles, extra articles, contact information and links to futher reading, complementing the Rural Affairs newsletter.
If you would like a free subscription to the Rural Affairs Newsletter, please send an email to emraf@ruralaffairs.org.uk with your name, organisation, address and number of copies you wish to receive. |
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Event
EMRAF 3rd Annual Conference
July 1st 2004
This spring the Govermment will reveal the revised Rural White Paper and modernised rural delivery. This conference is an opportunity
to explore the challenges for policy and delivery in the East Midlands and to look at the opportunities to build on the work of a variety of
good practice examples of partnership working.
Venue: PERA, Melton Mowbray
More information: Marian Dean, 0115 9712529
Download the PDF version of the full details and booking form.
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Contact Us
Rural Affairs is the newsletter of the East Midlands Rural Affairs Forum. For comments and suggestions, please contact
Derk van der Wardt,
EMRAF Co-Ordinator
at 01623 727600
or email emraf@ruralaffairs.org.uk
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