SCYP - March '10 Meeting

Today was actually a pretty productive meeting. We discussed a lot of things really and had a bit of fun with the debate, which I chaired!

For the first part, we had guest speaker Ross Borman, who is part of the Inter Generational projects and works on boosting relations between generations, removing ageism and stereotypes. He had previously emailed me about an event in Southampton called 'City for All Ages', in which he asked me, as well as others from different groups in age (seniors council, etc), to speak a little about the challenges people face and how we can overcome them. He came today again to talk about this and explain how this will present fantastic opportunities for all ages.

I believe this is going to be a brilliant event and is going to be the start of not only gaining young people a better image in the media, but also developing links with the seniors council and other groups to achieve common goals, such as the improvement of transport and cost.

As well as this, we did sub-group work and our group discussed more about the hate crime project. We decided the best approach would be to ask ITV fixers on help for creating a sequence game, involving video clips. Providing the game/video is made well, this project is going to really target hate crime and bullying, with great effect. I think this will be a one to watch and hopefully will be a success in Southampton schools.

We also went over many other points, with future projects looking very hopeful! There was also lots of feedback from some of our recent endeavours, including a talk from me on the recent south East Residential. After this, the debate began and somehow I ended up as chair. We agreed to discuss vote sixteen and many good points were raised. Though I struggled controlling Mr Rawlins!

Although I did let this run of a bit, we had time to briefly run over a few points and once more discuss our May elections, when we chose a new chair and positions. Everyone wanted to be involved at this prospect, so we all put our names down at the end of the meeting for positions and which team we wanted to be in. I decided to run for Vice Chair and Media Rep! Hopefully our end of May election, will be just as interesting as that on the 5th!

Another excellent meeting on the whole!