Youth Council

Harborough District Youth Council

The Harborough District Youth Council was established in January 2025 for 11–18-year-olds who live or go to school in the district. The Youth Council was created to hear the voices of the young people in the district and to give them the opportunity to work on matters that are important to them. 

Currently, the Youth Council has members from Welland Park Academy, Robert Smyth Academy, Kibworth Mead, Lutterworth High, Lutterworth College, Leicester Grammar School and Beauchamp College. It has recently formed a leadership team made up of a chair, vice chair, secretary, treasurer, media and communications officer and outreach and inclusion officer:-

  • Chair - Isobel, Beauchamp College
  • Vice Chair - Melika, Robert Smyth Academy
  • Treasurer - Amelia, Beauchamp College
  • Media and Communications Officer - Amelie, Lutterworth College
  • Outreach and Inclusion Officer - Rosie, Leicester Grammar School, Stoneygate
  • Secretary - to be confirmed

December 2025 meeting

At the last meeting held in the council chamber in Market Harborough on Thursday 4 December, Youth Council members did some thinking around the geographical gaps, which schools and areas of the district are not currently represented and how we can reach them. This will be an area of focus for the new outreach and inclusion officer.

The Youth Council were then introduced to the current youth opportunities plan, as this is something which Becca, Youth Engagement Officer, is revising and we want the input of young people, so it becomes a strategy shaped by them.

The vice chair, outreach and inclusion officer and media and communications officer attended a Speak Out magazine meeting to look at the entries for the logo design competition and decided on their winning designs. The design will be refined by a professional designer and announced through the Speak Out magazine and website.

Joining the Youth Council

If you would like to become a member of the Youth Council, or you know someone who might, please see the ‘get on board’ document and complete the signup steps. Parents/guardians will then be emailed a consent form which needs to be completed before the young person attends their first meeting.

Each month an rsvp/attendance form is sent out to the young people to confirm they are attending that month’s meeting. Meetings alternate between Market Harborough and Lutterworth each month. This form is also where the young people can tell us if they require a space on the community transport bus which goes between Lutterworth and Market Harborough.

If you have any questions or queries, please contact Becca Powell, Youth Engagement Officer at youthvoice@harborough.gov.uk.

Upcoming meetings

(all meetings are on Thursdays, 5.30pm-7.30pm)

Locations (unless specified otherwise):

  • Market Harborough - the council chamber, the Symington Building, Adam and Eve Street
  • Lutterworth - the main hall at Lutterworth College, Bitteswell Road

Dates:

  • Thursday 12 February - Market Harborough
  • Thursday 12 March- Lutterworth

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