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UPDATE: The QED
Youth Action Group has merged with the "Big Issues
Group" run by the Voluntary Services Unit. The
following article on the merger appeared in the
March 1999 issue of Network 21, the Newsletter of
Kent and the Wider World:
Andrea Houston, Chairperson of the Group
reports ...
The Big Issues action group was created in
September 1998 in order to examine wider issues
affecting younger people living in Dartford. I took
on the role of Chairperson of the Action group
which involves leading meetings, ensuring that
members of the group carry out tasks and making
sure that minutes of meetings are written up and
circulated.
There are nine members of BIG from a range of
different schools and colleges in Dartford. Three
young volunteers were originally part of the
Quality Environment for Dartford Group, which was
supported by Dartford Borough council and Kent and
the Wider World.
At our first Action Group meeting we felt we
needed to find one topic to focus on for the next
few months. We decided to look at the environment
of Dartford. In order to help us, an employee of
Dartford Borough Council, Phil Kessel,
Environmental Strategic Development Manager, joined
the meetings.
So we could find out what young people in
Dartford think of the environment they are living
in, we decided to construct a questionnaire. Five
schools were included in the survey and fifty
questionnaires were sent to each school. At the
moment we are collecting the completed
questionnaires and looking at the results.
We have been invited to a Youth Matters
Conference run by Dartford Borough Council on
Saturday March 6, in order to share the results of
our questionnaire. The conference is being attended
by the MP for Dartford and should be a very
interesting event."
For more information about the Big Issues Action
Group, please contact Judith Skinner at
01322-294524.
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