North Wales Assembly Member Mark Isherwood shared the vision of Denbigh Youth Shed in the Assembly yesterday after visiting the project last week.
During Questions to the First Minister, Mr Isherwood championed the inspiring young people who created the first ‘Youth Shed’ in Denbigh, providing a safe place for young people to develop, and called on the Welsh Government to support them.
He said:
“At last September's Digartref Ynys Môn and Bangor University event in the Assembly, we heard homeless young people themselves debating youth homelessness in Wales and they said young people living in supported accommodation could have a host of issues to deal with and may struggle with this alongside studying and assignments.
“Last Friday, I visited the Hwb project - Grwp Cynefin's Hwb project - in Denbigh, to visit the supported accommodation project there, supporting young people and preparing them for independent living, and also the Denbigh Youth Shed, designed and created by young people from the HWB project, working with Scott Jenkinson and the 4:28 Training group, to provide a safe place for young people to explore who they are, develop pro-social relationships with suitable role models, and develop and learn skills.
“Will you firstly join me in congratulating those young people on forming the first Youth Shed in Wales, and secondly confirm whether the Welsh Government will support them in their vision to give every town in Wales a Youth Shed?”
- his reply the First Minister said he would like to find out more about their work and how it could be implemented in other parts of Wales.
He said: “Of course I join with him in congratulating the initiative that young people have shown. I'd like to know more about it, and I'd be more than happy to receive further information as to what the process was in establishing the Youth Shed and how perhaps the model can be adopted across Wales.
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