YOUth Making it Happen
PB theme or issue
6 Themes:
- Arts and Culture
- Community & Environment
- Education & Skills
- Equality and Inclusion
- Safety
- Sport- Health & Wellbeing
PB eligibility criteria
Safe, Legal, Feasible, Youth Centred and in line with theme.
Age to vote
Number of votes
Example of winning ideas
The winning ideas represented a range of themes including drama, culture and arts; improvements to green spaces and rivers; fitness, health and wellbeing; gifting; intergenerational activities; and education and skills.
- Intergenerational Baking (KVC Creativity)
- Westend Masterclass (Cast CIC)
- Outdoor Dance (Newtownstewart Highland Dancers)
- Sparkling Clean (Londonderry YMCA)
- Over the Rainbow (EDIT)
- Young Peoples Fitness (Ardmore Cricket Club)
- Jon Clifford Park Basketball
- Our Green Space (VOYPIC)
- Coach Education & Performance Tracking (Tristar FC)
- Lifehack Lockdown Live (Creggan Enterprises)
- Improving Health & Wellbeing (Matchbox Youth Club)
- Give a Gift (Bishop Street Youth Club & Community Centre)
- Strabane AYE (Strabane PYDP Group)
- Take Action – Make Change (Melmount Community Forum)
- Leading Together (Sigerson GAA)
- Recharge Me (Foyle Down Syndrome Trust)
- Foyle Diggers (Foyle College)
- EMPower Me (Lotus Wellbeing Centre)
Top three tips from the organisers
- Importance of peer-to-peer promotion of the YOUth Making It Happen process, drawing on young people’s networks and social media preferences e.g., Instagram rather than Twitter or Facebook.
- Acknowledge the participation of the young people who take part. For example, the Co-Design Panel and representatives of each successful group received a YMIH Certificate of Participation. The Mayor presented the Certificates to the young people at a Celebration Event held outdoors at one of the winning PB project ideas, Jon Clifford Park Basketball Court.
- Facilitated PB support from Community Places to help plan and design the PB process.
Further information and evaluations
https://growderrystrabane.com/YOUTHPB/
Interview with Liam McClintock, representative of the Youth Co-Design Panel
Mayor Graham Warke of Derry and Strabane District Council highlighting how inspirational the young people on the Youth Co-Design Panel were and acknowledging their participation:
Some amazing young people have been making a difference in communities across the Council area thanks to the #YouthMakingItHappen #PB Scheme.
The entire scheme was youth led and youth focused – the first project of its kind in NI!https://t.co/zl6ZeWXodB#makingithappen pic.twitter.com/Ygf2ZU70Z1— Mayor Derry Strabane (@mayordcsdc) July 23, 2021
Project images
