Meeting Young Volunteers

Last Friday I was delighted to attend the Southbroom Development Centre in Devizes to meet Damien Hassjes of Wiltshire Council, John Rich and his youth development team, young mentors, among them Dan and Martin; the V talent coordinators from Wiltshire Council and Ellie Vesey-Thompson, the Wiltshire Representative for the UK Youth Parliament. Over tea I heard how the V talent programme had provided real training opportunities and we discussed the problems that young people from across the Devizes Constituency have in accessing services and activities. I was particularly impressed with the articulate way in which the young mentors explained their activities and what they had learnt from the programme and there are clearly lessons here for our National Citizenship Service, due to be rolled out in the coming months.

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