BORED ON A FRIDAY NIGHT?

LOOKING FOR SOMETHING NEW TO DO?

Come and enjoy the music experience that is taking the world by storm.

THE SILENT DISCO

You will be able to party the night away in silence. Listen to music of your choice all night with your own set of headphones and switch between different channels.

On Friday 19^th, DJs will be playing live sets on two separate channels. There will also be the chance for budding young DJs to get up and showcase their skills against one of the resident DJs

WHEN:             Friday 19th and Friday 26th March

TIME:              7 - 10pm

WHERE:           Rivermead Leisure Centre

HOW MUCH:    £3 Per person

For more information contact Janice on 0118 937 3279

Congratulations to Sarah Bellinger and Jocelyn Hutch who are the winners of the 11 Million. Question for Council competition.

Sarah & Jocelyn win £25 Oracle vouchers each and will be formally delivering their motion tomorrow to the full Council!

YOF/YCF has some funds remaining!  

If you or your group would like to apply for some Capital money, please click here for information and the form!

On Monday 4 Jan, Reading Youth Cabinet elected their officers for 2010.

They also elected their UK Youth Parliament representative. Congratulations to you all!

Youth Cabinet Officers:

	Chair - Saraniya Thayaparan
	Vice Chair - Wendy Flanagan
	Administrator - Anne Ebue  Follow Anne on Twitter: twitter.com/peabrain12  Read Anne's Blog: mspeabrain12.blogspot.com
	Events Coordinator - Daniel Mija

UK Youth Parliament Team:

	Member of Youth Parliament - Josh Harsant  Follow Josh on Twitter: twitter.com/joshharsant  Read Josh's Blog: joshharsant.blogspot.com
	Deputy Member of Youth Parliament - Faye Gobbi  Read Faye's Blog: fayegobbi.blogspot.com

From all of us here at Reading Youth Cabinet, and Reading Youth Online; we'd like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and an awesome New Year!

See you in 2010!

Young People of Reading, your 2010 Youth Cabinet has been announced. Details coming soon.

LAST CHANCE TO VOTE!!!

Make sure you get your chance to vote for the Young Person you want to see represent you on the Youth Cabinet.

You can vote in Connexions all day on Friday 12th December and in the morning on Monday 14th December.

Get Voting. Your Cabinet. Your Voice.

YOUTH CABINET ELECTIONS ARE COMING!

Make sure you check out the manifesto DVD at your schools or youth clubs!

30th November to 12th December is voting time.

11 Million Day Update

Be sure to check out the updates from our VERY successful 11 Million day.

It's not too late to submit your question or recommendation to the full Borough Council!

October marks the beginning of the Youth Cabinet election season.

Check out what you need to do and whether you are eligible to stand for election.

Then on November 6, it's 11 Million takeover day where you can take over parts of Reading Borough Council. Find out how you can get involved!

Finally, there have been some changes made to the process of YOF/YCF form and criteria.  Find out more and download a funding application form!

Over the next few months (up until January 2010), we will be performing a number of changes to this site, and therefore you may be unable to access it. These changes and updates are vital to the day-to-day running of the site, as there have been many noticeable errors to date. We apologise for any inconvienience this may cause.

For more information on these changes, please contact us on info@readingyouth.com.

Reading Youth Cabinet would like to congratulate Wendy Flanagan for achieving a majority vote in the recent Deputy Member of Youth Parliament elections. Wendy has assumed this role until January 2010.

Summer in Reading!

Each area team in Reading are putting on a number of brilliant activities that you can get involved in throughout the Summer. Click on 'Youth Clubs' (Left) and find out what's happening in your area!

For information about Reading-wide activities for all ages, click here.

The Berkshire West Primary Care Trust (PCT) is conducting a survey to get Young People's  thoughts and opinions on health services available to them. We'd be grateful if you would fill in this Questionnaire (MS Word, 628KB)

Once it has been filled in: Please email it to redhealth@reading.gov.uk with "PCT Questionnaire" in the subject field.

Thank You!

The British Youth Council (BYC) is looking for the views of young people on sex, alcohol and the possible links between the two. This is an opportunity for you, young people, to have your say and influence policy on issues relating to the sexual health of young people.

All answers given in the survey will be totally confidential and the BYC are offering £50 in high street vouchers to the winner of their prize draw!

Click here to answer the survey!

The main links on the left hand side of the site, when on the Activities and Advice page, don't work, and we are aware of and are working to fix this problem. Please bare with us while we update this page and its search results.

Thanks!

Reading's YOF and YCF Panel has made some changes to the funding and application process. And as of today, the old application forms will no longer be reviewed. Therefore, please ensure you download, fill-in and submit the correct form.

Click here for the YOF and YCF page and for the new downloads.

Barnardos are holding a recruitment event in Broad Street Mall this weekend. Click on the link below for more information.

Find out more

We have recently taken the website offline to do some major updates, hopefully you'll notice these updates as you look around the site.

Some key changes: the new Youth Cabinet menu, the new Red Health menu and the new Youth Support Pages.

Enjoy - look out for more updates in the coming months!

The ReadingYouth Team would just like to wish every GCSE and A-Level student in Reading good luck in their exams this term...!

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE SURVEY

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE SURVEY

Children and Young People's Plan 2009-2012

We need YOUR feedback - the plan is all about YOU...

Click Here to take survey

THE 2008 JAR REPORT - ITS BEEN PUBLISHED!

To read the full JAR report or a young person's version, click here

 HALF TERM

There's lots of events going on over this Half Term; to find out CLICK HERE

! ADVERSE SNOW AFFECTS SCHOOLS IN READING !

Please CLICK HERE to see if your school is closed or affected by the snow

PLEASE NOTE: YOUTH CABINET MEETING TONIGHT IS CANCELLED 

Due to today's snowy weather, the planned Youth Cabinet meeting tonight has been cancelled.

Our next meeting is planned for February 9th.

! ADVERSE SNOW AFFECTS SCHOOLS IN READING !

Please CLICK HERE to see if your school is closed or affected by the snow

The ReadingYouth Team would like to wish everyone a very happy 2009!

This site will undergo further development throughout this year - so keep an eye out for new changes!

* NEWSFLASH *

THE 2009 READING YOUTH CABINET HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED; SEE THE YOUTH CABINET PAGE TO THE LEFT FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE 2009 CABINET AND SEE THE YOUTH CABINET INRANET FOR OTHER INFO!

We hope everyone has settled back into school and looking forward to getting involved in new activities and projects this term.

We will hopefully soon be publishing newsletters from schools around Reading and have added more information about specific projects in the area, such as Young Carers and Youth Cabinet Elections.

We also have the added help of Youth Cabinet members to ensure this information is kept up to date for you.

This web is now in full swing and changing everyday. I would like to take this opportunity to thank those who have been working hard to make this happen. In particular Josh Harsant from the Youth Cabinet who has been inputting content and Bridget England who has been going around schools in Reading to raise awareness of this site. Thank you guys.

Over the next few days we will be launching the agony aunt and youth offer pages. I would also like to ask all schools if they wish to participate, to send in electronic copies of any newsletters or publicity that they would like published.

Please send to askyouth@reading.gov.uk  or RYF@reading.gov.uk

Thank you for bearing with us and we hope you enjoy this site.

We have finally launched our new website - ReadingYouth.com. Changes are still being and new things are still being added, so keep checking back!