Meg Day, Luke Barrett, James Yucel and Anna Lewis

Item / Discussion / Action
How do we want to get the word out in schools /
  • Make a video
  • A-level politics
  • Make a presentation/pack about UKYP and elections for schools/ groups to use- discussed difficulties of getting into school during school times.
  • MYPs given contact sheet for their constituencies
  • Showed MYPs poster which they liked
  • Discussed making an Infographic with cool UKYP facts and MYM info
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  • MYPs asked to add schools/groups not already identified (and add email address/contact names to digital version Maddie will email to them) and contact schools if they wish
  • Maddie to email digital version of list, poster and email signature
  • MYPs asked to direct young people interested in UKYP to
  • Make infographic and send to schools

BYC convention and Make Your Mark /
  • Positive feedback from the convention
  • Votes at 16- watched apple video
  • Top five UK results identified. Waiting for local results for Suffolk to decide the focus
  • Anna said this went really well in Northgate and there was some really great discussion
  • Luke said people were forced to do it and wasn’t as positive- how could it be made a more positive experience?
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  • Awaiting results
  • Remember to focus on Make Your Mark and how to do it in school for the best outcome next year

Open event/workshop /
  • Looked at dates, possibly getting a speaker along
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  • Maddie to finalise a date

Trip to Parliament /
  • MYPs have completed consent form already.
  • There is a document with all the information.
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  • Maddie to send document to MYPs to read themselves and meeting time

Campaigning and influence /
  • Support from Suffolk County Council - MYPs are awaiting contact from Councillors to look at how they can work together- bumped into Councillor Robin
  • Maddie completed BYC self- assessment and briefly discussed how this will be used.
  • What are our campaign priorities- awaiting MYM results
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  • Invite local councillors

Elections /
  • Young people decided to make a video for elections
  • Young peoplewrote script and made video for elections
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  • Jamie edited clips
  • Video completed
  • Video/clips to be used on social media and loaded onto the Source.

Constituency boundary changes /
  • Awaiting changes discussed that it shouldn’t affect UKYP that much
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  • Update constituencies and contacts

MYP details /
  • MYPs to submit details online- there were some small issues but we looked at these.
  • MYPs completed registration forms
  • Discussed how constituents contact local MYPs? Twitter- Luke made Twitter account for Coastal
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  • MYPs to complete and ask Maddie if any problems:
  • Also email blurb to Maddie to put on TheSource