Congratulations to the 25 young people who this week were named as those who will represent the Island at Youth Council and Parliament level.
We’re told that a record 2000+ votes were counted for the Youth Council elections and the election for the Isle of Wight Member of the UK Youth Parliament raised a record number of candidates.
Jack Bell was named yesterday as Member of the UK Youth Parliament for the Isle of Wight and the Deputy Member post went to Daniel Clarke.
Congratulations to you both, as well as the 23 young people below who will be representing the north, south, east and west.
North Wight: Scott Goodhew, Ben Yates, Caitlin Day, Lawrie Mason, Thomas Turtle, Logan Wareham and Samuel Hughes.
South Wight: Tyne Samuel, Lou Alabaster, Jordan Cotton, Adi Volney, Tessa Kewell, Ben Furniss and Jacob Smith.
East Wight: Jacob Rich, Robert Jackson, Idrish Hamroush, Oliver Hughes, Kirsty Innard and Jasmin Callan.
West Wight: Atalanta Hersey, Rachael Troward and Lauren Noble.
Isle of Wight Council Leader David Pugh said “This year’s results goes to show that young people on the Island clearly care about local politics.
“Once again we’ve seen a record number of votes cast with each ward being keenly contested.
“The Isle of Wight Council works very closely with the Youth Council on a range of schemes and topics, and I look forward to hearing the views and ideas the youth council will have over the next year”.
Image: Rev Dan Catt under CC BY-SA 2.0
