Youth the Theme of Next Chiswick Area Forum
Agenda dominated by items relating to younger people
Chiswick councillors at a previous area forum. Picture: Yagnesh Nakarja/LBH
December 2, 2023
The next meeting of the Chiswick Area Forum has an agenda with several items on issues relating to younger people in the area.
These include a presentation from students at Chiswick School on what young people need and an update from the Hogarth Youth Centre plus reports on the Youth Employability and the Youth Skills Employment Guarantee. There will be presentations from a local employer and charities that teach skills for life.
The forum, which is open to members of the public, takes place at Chiswick Town Hall on Heathfield Terrace on Tuesday, 5 December.
Councillors hope the forum will particularly appeal to students who will soon be starting work and who would like to know about local opportunities, and their parents, grandparents or anyone who is keen to support young people to gain skills. They would also like to hear from young people who have worked, whether part time in school holidays or occasionally at weekends, about their experiences and what they wished they’d known or been able to do before taking their first job.
Cllr Gabriella Giles, this year’s chairman of the Chiswick Area Forum, has brought together an extremely varied group of people and organisations to explain what they do and find out what local students want. “I wanted specifically to look at the future of the world of work for the new generation and in particular at opportunities in Chiswick and the borough. There are so many fantastic ways to gain skills to improve employability, skills that will be needed across the employment spectrum, and I wanted to publicise them. I also want to hear from local students about their experiences of work, their fears and the concerns that might put them off working locally, and what they would like employers to provide to help their employability. It doesn’t matter what those first work experiences are. They all teach skills that are needed throughout a career, whatever that career might be.”
The formal proceedings of the meeting begin at 7.30pm but for an hour before that there will be a market place event with stalls from local agencies that provide on opportunity to meet with council officers and councillors and hear about local community groups and initiatives.
An Open Forum will take place as close as possible to 9.00pm for approximately 20 minutes. Members of the public may raise matters of local concern although may not be possible to have a detailed discussion or response at the meeting. Points raised will be noted and used to inform the work of the Area Forum.
The following Chiswick Area Forum meeting is scheduled for 12 March 2004.
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