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. We have a new Leadership Team for the 2026-2027 academic year which is: 

  • Chair - Amelia, Beauchamp College
  • Vice Chair- Rosie, Leicester Grammar School Stoneygate
  • Outreach and Inclusion Officer - William, Welland Park Academy

June 2026 meeting

We held hustings at the latest meeting on Thursday 4 June, held in the Council Chamber in The Symington Building in Market Harborough. We ran Youth Council elections to find our new Leadership Team for the new academic year and the young people who decided to stand for a role shared their manifestos with the group. Online voting then opened and Youth Council members were invited to vote and the new Leadership Team members have been announced, as mentioned above. 

There will be activities over the summer and meetings will resume in September. 

If you would like to hear more about the Youth Council or might be interested in joining in September, please get in touch with Becca via youthvoice@harborough.gov.uk. 

May 2026 meeting

At May's meeting, held in Lutterworth, we welcomed Alison Jolley from Young Leicestershire to speak to the young people about consultation for youth groups and to gather their views and ideas of how to find out what young people really want and the best way to reach them. 

We then looked at creating an end of year review document and thinking about what we’d like to share with people about what the Youth Council has achieved this year. The young people placed sticky notes on a timeline of this academic year of their different experiences and achievements. It was great for them to reflect on everything that's happened and the end of year review document will be an opportunity to share this with stakeholders. You can read our end of year review document by following this link: End of year review

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 under 'useful links' below 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:

Dates for the new academic year will be confirmed and published here soon. 

Useful links: