Clwb Ni: promoting equality
An LGBTQ+ club for young people was set up in Ysgol Bro Hyddgen by the youth worker after a need was identified. This club evolved to cover wider diversity and equality issues, becoming ‘Clwb Ni’. The young people attending this club were keen to do more for their school and wanted to inform their peers about equality issues. With support from the youth worker, young people developed and delivered a ‘unity workshop’ to every young person in the school. The workshop included a ‘unity pledge’, which was adopted by the whole school, expressing everyone’s commitment to treating people equally and with kindness.The young people delivering the workshop gained confidence, improved resilience and developed their public speaking skills. The project demonstrated a range of youth work principles and the levels of participation were exceptional. Young people taking ownership of, and delivering, workshops to other young people had a notable positive impact across the whole school community.