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Tuesday Aug 04, 2009

UKYouth Voice conference 2009

Well it all started on Wednesday morning 7.30am I actually woke up before my alarm..must have been all the excitement of the conference, do you think? On the long journey from the North East down to Avon Tyrell.  Was feeling good about the week that followed as well as a bit nervous as it was the first UKYV conference I was part of.  On the whole the journey down went quite quick no mishaps, no getting on the wrong trains, all good.
 
So Wednesday evening catch up with the UKYV girls and guys and put some of the finishing touches to the conference for all our lovely delegates.
 
Thursday was all go....Printing info and questionnaires for 'Movers & Shapers' and putting together the Youth Achievement Award Movers & Shapers presentation together. Making sure I had the right information about Movers & Shapers as I introduce the whole Movers & Shapers section just before I delivered our own YAA presentation on results so far.  Going over of 'Education, Education...Inspiration' workshop make sure everything was set for the weekend.
 
The whole conference and year has been an experience and huge learning curve. Running the workshop was even more experience in itself.  It had a lot to cover from YAA to Dance, Volunteering to CV's. There was a wide variety of things to talk about as well as a wide variety of delegates and so each time we run the workshop there was something differently and those running the workshop with me and myself; adapted it accordingly.  The workshop groups were split into groups of animals Ducks, Sheep, Elephants and Lions. I was leader of the Ducks and basically each day I would meet with them and let them know where they were going for the day and it was put on display where each group where going at what time for everyone to see.  It worked well as we then had a mixture of people in the workshop.
 
Obviously though not all topics of the workshop in the case of our workshop; that I know of, was to everyones taste so we had a plan that we were able to adapt each time to each groups needs and interests.

The disco on the Saturday night end with a faulty fire alarm going off! So everything that could happen did.

On the whole I think the conference went really well and really enjoyed working with everyone and look forward to doing my second year and hopefully an even better conference next summer and I will miss the everyone who has left this year loads, but hope to keep intouch with them all.

I think I'm still recovering from the whole week, was really exhausting but loads of FUN.
 
So heres to UKYV conference 2010!

Posted by Moira ( 2:53 PM )
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