Welcome to the Liverpool Youth Council's section of Council's website.  Have all your questions about LYC and even more answered by checking out this site. You can also contact us by phone or email.

Please click on the following highlighted links:

• Contact us
• What is the Youth Council?
• Who is it for?
• Why does the Youth Council exist?
• What does the Youth Council do?
• Why you should become a member
• Friends of Liverpool Youth Council (FLYC)

For more information about the LYC please contact Council's Community Development Assistant (Youth/Aged), Anita Leighton on phone 9821 7753 or email y.council@liverpool.nsw.gov.au

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Ever get the feeling no one listens to you because you're a young person?

The Liverpool Youth Council is here to change all that!

The Liverpool Youth Council is a group of young people (12 to 24 years) who meet regularly to make decisions about issues affecting young people and to influence Council's policies and decisions towards young people. 

It provides young people with a direct link to Council and to have input into Council decisions and issues affecting young people.  Liverpool Youth Council members serve a two-year term.

Liverpool City Council (LCC) wants you to have your say and actually be heard, and that's why Council has established the Liverpool Youth Council (LYC).  The Liverpool Youth Council is an initiative of Council, as part of its Youth Strategy.  The LYC gives young people of Liverpool a chance to have their say and be heard - so speak up because we want to listen!

The LYC receive funding from Council and work towards providing events / activities / forums and other things for Liverpool's young people.

The LYC is open to any young person who is between 12 and 24 years old and lives in Liverpool local government area (LGA).

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The LYC is open to any young person between 12 and 24 years who lives in the Liverpool Local Government Area. (If you live in any area on the map located under 'Related Documents' to the right of your screen, that means you live in the Liverpool LGA).

It is made up of 15 young people from all across Liverpool and we try to have at least two representatives from each Neighbourhood Area.

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Council recognises the importance of young people's views and wanted to make sure there was an avenue for young people to feed into Council directly. This is why Council developed the Youth Strategy and the LYC.

The LYC makes sure young people of Liverpool are listened to and gives young people a chance to have direct contact with Council about issues that affect them.

The LYC also runs events / activities for young people across Liverpool.

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The LYC meet monthly.  At these meeting the LYC: 

To attend or observe the meeting, you need to firstly request permission, however we encourage all young people to come along and have a look.

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What's in it for you, you ask!

There are lots of reasons why you should become a member of the LYC, including:

• You get to say what you need and want in Liverpool and feel like you're being heard.
• To organise events for young people
• Do things for young people in Liverpool
• To make sure Council has an understanding of youth issues in Liverpool.

As a member of the LYC you:

• Receive training on various skills
• You learn new skills that will be useful when you get a job and in life general
• You learn about Council and how it all works
• You feel good when stuff actually happens for young people in Liverpool
• It looks good on your resume
• You make new friends.

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The LYC is a group of fifteen young people who are here to represent young people in Liverpool and provide a voice for them. To help LYC do this we have a contact list called Friends of Liverpool Youth Council.

Being part of FLYC means you will receive updates about what LYC is doing and how you can become involved.  We will also let you know about any vacancies for the LYC, which may arise.

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