Youth Cabinet Day-24/08/18

By Josh Patterson on August 24, 2018 • ( 0 )

Intro

On Friday 24th August, Youth Cabinet members attended a meeting at Horsham to discuss local campaigns, Votes at 16 campaign and our C4L campaign. Local campaigns were WorthLess? campaign, Cheaper Transport prices for 16 and 17 year olds and Youth Cabinet Awareness.

Youth Cabinet Awareness

The group that focused on Youth Cabinet Awareness created business cards and stickers to promote the West Sussex Youth Cabinet. These designs look very similar so if someone sees this they know it is the West Sussex Youth Cabinet.

Cheaper Transport for 16 and 17 year olds

The group has called their campaign “2 much 2 soon”.

Overview

For 16 and 17 year olds, it is mandatory for them to attend a college/sixth form or university so they can get good grades so they can get a decent job. They already are paying tuition fees to attend, so why are they also paying adult prices to get to these places? They aren’t given any adult treatment (such as the vote etc.) so why treat them like an adult here?

Acheivement

Emails have been created to send out to transport companies
Emails to radio companies have also been created
A petition is live on Change.org
Logo has been created

Ongoing

Chase up email replies
To get people to sign the petition

WorthLess? campaign

Overview

To get fairer funding in West Sussex because we get 50-75% less than the national average in school funding. We feel strongly that resources in schools are lesser quality than those in other counties across the UK which lowers the learning quality and teachers attracted to West Sussex, therefore lowering the chances of a West Sussex person getting a good job or scholarship compared to a Londoner.

Achievement