JULY 08
Date	July 08
Event	Cumbernauld YMCA-YWCA (Playscene Summer Camps)
Description	Youth programme for children whilst on school holidays

AUGUST 08
Date	Sunday 3rd - Saturday 9th August 08
Event	YMCA Europe Festival 2008 (Prague, Czech Republic)
Description	Entertainment, programmes, sports, music . . you name it.. its happening ! This was a brilliant experience . . and we had 4 young people from our YMCA travelling to Prague to take part in the Europe Youth Festival.


June 2009
Date	Tuesday 16th-Thursday 18th June 09
Event	YMCA APS Conference, Stirling
Description	14 staff members from Cumbernauld YMCA joined around 60 YMCA members from throughout the UK to take part in this years APS Annual Conference.


May 2010
Date	May 2010
Event	Planning group visit for Swedish Youth Exchange
Description	‘Y’ YOUTH COMMITTEE - The group have been successful in their joint bid with YMCA Sweden to host an exchange for a Swedish youth group this August. The group recently visited Sweden to finalise arrangements and had a fantastic time. The group also attended the YMCA National Assembly and were commended for their contribution. This resulted in one member being selected to attend the European YMCA meeting in Litomyšl, Czech Republic as a Scottish delegate and he was subsequently selected to serve on the International YES group for young people.

	Members of the committee also staffed the Y stall at the recent Fun In The Park event in Cumbernauld Community park where they raised almost £300 for their youth committee activity. They are also organising the main stage events at the forthcoming Cumbernauld Gala day and have been fully involved in the planning meetings. Their commitment and enthusiasm was acknowledged as of a very high standard at a recent meeting by members of the planning group. The group have been working together for just over a year now and show that with a little support and encouragement there are many young people out there who want to play an active part in their communities, its a pity they don’t get more press coverage along with all the other young people out there.


Sept 10
Date	September
Event	DFID-CSO Youth Working Group
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	At a meeting at Department for international Development with Nick Clegg and Andrew Mitchell and 30 young people ahead of the Millenium Development Goals review summit in New York next week. Over 100 young people applied and Jamie Lloyd, a young person from Cumbernauld YMCA in Scotland, was one of those chosen to attend. Jamie has been involved in “Youth Actually”, a group of young people from across Scotland who are learning peer education techniques to help raise awareness of development issues in their local YMCAs. He is a committed Cumbernauld YMCA-YWCA Youth Committee member who has recently completed two 10k runs and a 15k cycle for Youth Committee Funds. The young people came to : * present the work of young people campaigning in the UK on the MDGs (including presenting a collection of these called “Our Voices”) * highlight key messages from young people to the UK government on what they feel is important within development * ask questions on three key areas – global partnership; building support for development; and effectiveness. Before the meeting the group met at Restless Development’s offices to finalise the content of these presentations and to formulate the questions, it inevitably takes time to craft a good question that is representative of such a diverse group. Jamie contributed to the question on global partnership, which meant the YMCA movement, amongst others, got a mention as an organization that is a model of good practice for youth participation! In terms of outcomes, Andrew Mitchell has committed to having future meetings with young people and the Youth Workers Group on the topics of a) participation of young people in development and b) building support for development. It will be for the Y Care International representative at the YWG to see how we can be involved in these meetings.

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