European Youth Information Day will be celebrated across Europe on Tuesday 17th April for the fifth year running. ERYICA (European Youth Information & Counselling Agency) will be working together with youth information workers across Europe to promote their organisations, services and their work with young people through a variety of activities. As a member of …
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While everyone was enjoying their Christmas dinner and toasting in the New Year, MEIC staff were working hard to support young people across the whole of the festive period. Between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day the helpline supported 89 young people. About one third of these were young people dealing with mental health issues, self-harm …
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The Bwsted editorial group has recently attended a residential to start the creative writing accreditation provided by CLIConline. The editorial group are also planning going on another residential in February in order to complete courses they have started. This is also a good opportunity for the group to share ideas and create future plans to improve …
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Conwy Youth Service have just appointed Joy Chiplin who will be the local editor of the local CLIC site planned to go live in March. The Powys CLIC site is also planning to go live in March and the youth service there are consulting on a name for their website. The CLIC team will be …
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MarshMallo from theSprout won the CLICmas competition for window #7 on CLIC’s very own advent calendar.  He animated a poem called ‘A CLICmas Rescue’ and won a Nintendo3DS for his brilliant entry! You can watch his video here. tommy b from theSprout reviewed Cardiff’s annual panto and he got a mention in the Echo. Read the full review here.

This year the Youth Information Workers Conference (YIWC) was held at Hafod A Hendre Conference Centre situated on the Royal Welsh Showground in Builth Wells, Powys. The theme of the day was “The Future of Youth Information Work”. The Conference was an exciting mix of speakers and workshops. The newly formulated National Youth Information Standards …
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A young person from Cardiff spent a day with CLIC staff at Ebbw Vale Institute last month to learn about the range of creative activities including the media-audio suite and rehearsal spaces, and workshops and services on offer for young people in the area. Read about her impressions of EVi here.

Learners from voluntary and statutory youth sectors attended ProMo-Cymru’s Social Media Training Day. CWYVS kindly provided The Urdd venue in Cardiff Bay where 12 learners underwent a day going through Facebook, Twitter and policy considerations when using social media with young people. Some responses to the training included: “Demonstrated how to use social networking sites …
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Over 100 young people from schools and youth organisations came to Parc-y-Scarlets on Wednesday 16th November to have their questions answered by influential figures from across Carmarthenshire. This year’s conference was entitled ‘Making choices today for a better tomorrow’, and encouraged attendees to talk about education, employment, volunteering and training. One young person in attendance …
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Meic attended the 8th Eurochild Annual Conference Thursday 1st December. The conference was held at Mercure Holland House in Cardiff between the Wednesday 30th November 2011 and Friday 2nd of December 2011. As a service providing information, support, advice and advocacy to children and young people between the ages of 0 – 25 years across …
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