I’m Indea Cadman-Rivers, secretary of SNYA. I have been a member of SNYA since 2005 and am honoured to be a part of such a wonderful team. My role within this group is to make sure all correspondence is distributed and dealt with, I also make sure that all minutes are made. SNYA is accessible to all young people who want to join, it is very special in the fact that change is made as a direct result of our views and action and there is such a wide spectrum of people involved. There’s a plethora of issues that you can, and probably will, have an opinion on. My main objection is public transport, since I live in a village, this greatly affects me. Many people think the same; however, many others don’t. SNYA represents a broad variety of viewpoints and SNYA enables you to voice your views either with like-minded people or some who are likely to contest you – that is, I believe, what makes SNYA so great.

Lucy Hoddy Chair

Hello I’m Lucy, I am 16 years old and Chairperson of South Norfolk Youth Action (SNYA). Over the last twelve months we have taken part in Go-Elephant, a community arts project in Norwich. This was a fantastic success and I am very proud of our achievements. It was a great honour to work with a professional artist, Clare Steward, who mentored and supported us throughout. We hope to have many more similar opportunities in the future. This year we are going to focus efforts on transport, reducing the voting age to 16 and issues that are important to young people such as you. I became interested in South Norfolk Youth Action after I attended Local Democracy Week at South Norfolk Council, until then I did not realise that there was an opportunity to have my voice heard. If you would like to give it a try why not come along to one of our meetings where you will receive a warm welcome.I hope to see you there Lucy Hoddy.