What is the Youth Forum?

“The Marsh Farm Youth Forum is a strong voice that represents a diverse range of young people from all different backgrounds that live within Marsh Farm. Young people are empowered with powerful and smart opinions and the Youth Forum brings many of those people together to make decisions on the priorities that are important to us.

The Marsh Farm Youth Forum was formed four years ago and now has over 150 people involved. They have benefited from youth events such as game days, workshops, sports events, job apprentices or being involved in projects like dance competitions and anti bullying campaigns.

The Forum is youth led and has roles and responsibilities that empower young people. We have a chair that leads meetings and keeps them running smoothly, a vice chair to support the chair, a secretary whose main job is to write the minutes of the meeting and an events coordinator who sets up events for the young people of Marsh Farm to go on.

The Youth Forum helps out in different projects and engages others to get involved. It is a fun and enjoyable experience and it benefits everyone in the community and not just the youth of our estate as our opinions have an effect on everyone in Marsh Farm.”

Courtney Manning
Youth Forum Chair