On Monday 9 November, the Youth Advisory Board met to discuss an important topic. This group meets regularly on Monday evenings, alongside the Doorstep Youth Theatre Rep Company rehearsals. For the first three years, our YAB has been linked to the Monday evening session, but we discussed a new model which might expand the representation outward, increasing the age range, locations and group-allocation of the YAB members.
We had a really vibrant conversation – the YAB were in full unanimous agreement about widening out the offer, with the aim of encouraging younger children to be able to take part fully. They had great suggestions about how to make sure it could be interactive, fun, engaging and dynamic.
Youth Co-Chairs Gaby, Will and Holly talked about how we might ensure that nominations are fair for any incoming representatives, and we took lots of notes and took away actions to explore how we can put this into action between now and our February meeting.
More updates and specifics to come, but for now, we just wanted to say a big thank you to the YAB for their thoughts, generosity, good ideas, and willingness to explore how we might expand and diversify voices.