The Government is introducing a complex array of changes to the social security system. This training seminar from Youth Access, the national experts on youth advice, looks at Welfare Reform with a specific focus on young people aged 16 to 25 and considers the changes and likely challenges to those both in and out of …
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MEIC attended the Welsh Government advocacy conference “Putting the Pieces Together”. The conference was opened by Albert Heaney, the recently appointed Welsh Government’s Director of Social Services, Children and Families. He praised the establishment of the MEIC helpline and said that advocacy was vital to the safeguarding of children and young people. He announced that …
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Young people and youth workers in Powys took part in accredited CLIConline Video Stories training. Young people had fun putting together videos for their local CLIConline site, TOWIP, as well as learning useful skills in video making. Youth workers underwent CLIConline video stories training and CLIConline’s Information Services for Young People Level 2 training. This …
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ProMo-Cymru is working with somewhereto_ to offer any young person between the ages of 16-25 a space to do the things they love. Perhaps they want a stage to perform on, a room to hold a workshop or a place to exhibit their work? Young people can now come directly to ProMo-Cymru and request a …
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Employment Opportunities on the MEIC Project. ProMo-Cymru, via a rolling recruitment process, is looking for interested applicants to work on MEIC, the national advocacy and advice helpline for children and young people in Wales. MEIC is managed strategically by the Cywaith consortium, made up of Children in Wales, NYAS, Tros Gynnal Plant, ProMo-Cymru and Voices …
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ProMo-Cymru has successfully supported a group of young people in creating a short one-minute animation for the Renew Wales project to raise awareness of climate change. Watch the animation here.

CLIConline is now in the new but rapidly expanding Youth Media Directory of the Youth Media Agency. CLIConline is also the first Youth Media in Wales to be listed in this directory. The Youth Media Agency is the National home for UK Youth Media: raising the profile of, and supporting, over 300 exciting media platforms. …
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From 1 to 7 March 2013, training managers Rachel Burton (from ProMo-Cymru) along with Gillian Wakeman (from YMCA Community College, which is ProMo’s training partner) are attending European Youth Information Training in Estonia. This is a ‘training the trainer’ event developed by ERYICA and funded by Youth in Action in order to develop, support and …
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ProMo-Cymru participated in a study visit to the city of Oulu, Finland organised by ERYICA (European Youth Information and Counselling Agency) from 19 to 23 February 2013. The theme of the study visit was “Youth Policy and Social Inclusion”. During the study visit participants were introduced to the Finnish Youth Act, Youth Policy and Children …
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The SWALEC Stadium played host to the fourth Youth Work In Wales Excellence Awards, ProMo-Cymru/CLIConline where there to cover the event. With the help of young people from The BYG and Aniko, CLIConline interviewed the stars of the night, including Huw Stephens, A3 Dance Troupe and Autumn, the winner of CLICstar 2012, who also performed …
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