Two websites that we found interesting!!
http://whosbored.org/
http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/
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Nov 11
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Jun 11
SAYC success at the St Albans Festival
On Saturday the 18th of June, many of our SAYC members braved the torrential rain at the St Albans Arts Festival at Verulamium Park. We ran several activities at our stall. Particularly successful were our Hoopla and Fishing Ducks games. These proved to be a huge success with many children and a substantial amount of adults too! We also sold bright and stylish T shirts, kindly donated by Garden Fields Primary school.
As well as our exciting fairground games, we also conducted surveys in our Mi Pod, a blow up igloo designed so that we can interview people confidentially. These surveys were conducted as part of our Mental Health Project. Our aim today was to research young people’s attitudes to, and awareness of counseling support in the local area and within their schools. This research will help to inform our project and when completed will be complied into data that will be sent to local schools and the District Council. For many of us, this has been our first experience of interviewing people in this spontaneous situation and it was a great opportunity to improve our confidence and social awareness.
All in all, the day was a huge success; the games were highly popular and we raised in excess of £150 for Youth Talk, a charity enabling young people to speak to someone about their problems. Not only was the day a fundraising accomplishment, but an example of effective teamwork, dedication and of course, powering through the pouring rain and carrying on!
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Jun 11
Our meeting on May 25th
Hi, I'm Alex and as the newest member of the SAYC I have been asked to do this sessions blog.
Yesterday (May the 25th) was my first meeting. I didn’t really know what to expect but it turned out to be quite a productive session, and more importantly good fun and a way to express what I felt. I was lucky enough to join just as the SAYC are starting to come up with lots of new ideas for how to grow and become more effective as your voice.
There are lots of new exciting things that we are planning to do over the next few months. Unfortunately lots of older members are leaving soon so we will miss them, and their supposed wisdom 
, when they are gone.
, when they are gone.We discussed several key issues such as the mental health project which if any of you seen we are currently in the process of finding out your thoughts about it. I really enjoyed my first meeting and will be going back again to try and help the SAYC improve and get more young people’s voices heard. I hope to hear your voice in the future.
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May 11
Our May meeting, at the Fleetville Community Center
Hello there!
We've decided to start a series of regular blogs to keep you updated about what we're up to, and I'm kicking things off, being our resident techie and all that :p
We had a meeting yesterday, the 3rd of May, at Fleetville Community Centre, a new venue for us as we were unable to use our usual spot at the District Council because of the elections.
We had a few new faces around the table, which is always nice 
We were joined by Beth, Sophie and Shaahida. Look out for their blogs coming soon!
So what did we actually discuss? Well you can read the full minutes here, but briefly:
Our mental health project
- We discussed which schools and year groups we'd like to test out our questionnaire on
- We decided to trial with year 8's and year 10's, so if you're in those years we'll be hearing from you soon!
Website Update
- I gave a brief update about our lovely new website
- We discussed the idea of these blogs and thought it would be a good way for us to communicate with you and keep you updated with everything we do
- We discussed the possibility of adding a discussion board to this site, which may be coming in the future. If you think one would be a good idea then let us know in the comments below
School Newsletters
- We chatted about our advert that we're hoping to get into school newsletters as soon as possible, so keep an eye out for that as well
That's pretty much it from this meeting, apart from all the cookies and doughnuts we ate. Thanks to the Fleetville Community Centre for letting us use their building for the meeting.
Thanks for reading and I look forward to telling you more! Make sure you add our facebook page (link's on the right) to keep up to date with all the latest for young people in St Albans