- Home
- Session Reports
- Opening Address
- Question Time 1
- 01. Events and IT
- 02. Staging Events with Excluded Young People
- 04. Cities and Major Events
- 05. Sports Events and Community Conflict
- Question Time 2
- 06. Evaluating Events (i)
- Keynote: Liverpool 08
- Day 2: Plenary Keynote
- Question Time 3
- 12. Making Cultural Venues Open
- 13. The Importance of Small Events
- 14. Evaluating Events (ii)
- Question Time 4
Question Time 1 – Young People and Culture and Sport Events
Norman Hole, Department of Children, Schools and Families
“It’s not enough just to provide funding, we’ve got ensure activities are high quality, achieve outcomes and are attractive to young people.”
“We have to ensure that what we provide is what they want. The best way is to ask them.”
“It is our aspiration that by 2018 young people will shape 25 per cent of local authority activities.”
“It’s no good providing exciting opportunities if young people can’t access them.”
Simon Antrobus, Clubs for Young People
“If you truly want to engage young people in making decisions you can’t just go up to them. It takes time, energy and money to engage them.”
“You need to look to real community leaders in the voluntary sector who do it day in, day out.”
Anne Moyle, Get Hooked on Fishing
“Once you’ve got a young person fishing then you’ve got the time to spend with them.”
Sangita Patel, London Community Sports Network
“If we really want to engage young people in organising events we have to take a risk. They need to learn to take the rough with the smooth – it’s building skills for their lives in the future.”
Christina Coker, Youth Music
“Long term development has to be supported – people can’t just be left to sink or swim.”
“Let the voice of young people come to the fore – it carries more weight than statistics.”
Ian Brady, DCSF
“Lots of local authorities really love to work with the voluntary sector; others are like scared rabbits in the headlights.”
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