The Youth Section

Chairperson = Holly Ballard *** Vice Chairperson = Samantha Hughes

Hon Secretary = Erica Hunt *** Hon Treasurer = Matthew Smith

Committee

Chelsea Davies, Ashley Hughes & Becky Jones

We are all very pleased to be on North Wales' Youth Committee this year. We have had a fun filled time and know that this will be a great year too. Our centre will host the Welsh National in August and we are very excited about this and the events leading up to it. We range in age from 11 to 17 and attend High Schools and a colleges in North Wales and the Wirral. If anyone would like to join us during the year who is 11 to 19 (19 af-ter 22 October 2011), we would be very happy to welcome you. Please speak to any of us or
Abigail, our Youth Liaison Officer.
Last year we raised nearly £500 for our chosen charities and this year we will be focussing our energies on raising money for youth events at our national. We look forward to your continued help and encouragement and would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who supported us as a committee and the fundraising events that we organised in the last year.

If anyone would like to join the youth committe they can get nomination forms from Abigail, please contact her on 01244 310165 to request forms or to chat to her about the committee. Forms have to be given to Diane Carrrington by 11am on Saturday, 8 October. The AGM will take place on the afternoon of Saturday, 22 October.

Our first meeting took place on Sunday, 29 January, we had some of Abigail’s “luxury brownies” they had a very nice frosting on the top – yum!

We discussed which charity or charities to support this year and decided to think about ideas in the next month and bring our ideas to the next meeting.
We were informed by Abigail that the Golden Grove Appeal no longer existed, we then decided to split the money allocated to it with our two charities so that Parkinson’s UK Vale of Clwyd Branch and Teenage Cancer Trust will get £245 each.

Erica asked Abs if the theme for the Sunday night disco was definitely a prom with the participants wearing centre colours, she confirmed this.

Abs reported to us that Matthew had raised £46 at Boughton’s New Year rally, we would like to thank everyone who supported his efforts and the rally officers for letting him do this. THANK YOU!

Holly told us Barry had dressed up as the Stig for the New Year’s Eve Masquerade Ball on the Cholmondley New Year rally and had offered a prize for the child who guessed who was behind the helmet, many, many children guessed correctly. Rose and Barry increased the initial prize money and very kindly donated £50 toward our charity fund. Thank you Rose and Barry for your generosity. THANK YOU!

Our next meeting will take place at Holly’s house on Sunday, 26 February and start at 2.00pm.

Children Challenge Cup & Teenagers Cup

Youth members of the North Wales Centre can now compete throughout the year to win points for themselves by doing various things.
Points will be awarded in the following ways:-

1 point for offering to help Rally Officers,

1 point for entering weekend competitions,

2 points for winning weekend competitions,

1 point for participating in organised sports practices on rallies,1 point for entering any competitions at the British & Welsh Nationals,

2 points for Winner & Runner up in any competitions at the British & Welsh Nationals,

Points will be collated throughout the year and current standings will be on display at most rallies.
There will be two age groups, The Children’s Challenge Cup will be presented to the child up to and including the age of 12 years, and
The Teenagers Cup will be presented to the person between 13 & 18 years inclusive, who has the most points at the AGM.

Rally Officers - Could all Rally Officers please help us by keeping a note of any youth members who do these things on your rally and pass it to me,

Chelle Rowlands

Thank You