Bolton Youth Voice

06/09/2026

24/06/2026

08/03/2026

This week, members of our School Council have been running the ballot box for the Bolton Youth MP elections.

Students have been watching campaign videos, casting their votes and learning first-hand about the democratic process, an excellent opportunity to see how elections work and how young people can have their voices heard.

10/02/2026

Voting officially opens TODAY 10.02.2026 🙌 It will be open until 13.03.2026.

The Participation team spent the day dropping off ballot boxes to schools & colleges and are available to support running elections to ensure young people have their voices heard in the 2026 Youth MP Elections 🗳
The candidates also have scheduled visits to youth clubs and schools whilst elections are running, so keep an eye out 👀

Good luck to all 10 candidates 🍀👦🏻👧🏻👧🏼👧🏿🧕🏼

Any schools or colleges that need support during the elections, please reach out to Grace via email: [email protected]

Thank you to for their support creating this video 📹 ❤️

09/02/2026

🗳Three B6 Students Delighted to Run as Youth MP Candidates🗳

Three B6 students were delighted to share with us that they are running as candidates to become a Youth Member of Parliament (MP).

As well as representing the children and young people of Bolton, nationally and regionally, Youth MPs sit on council meetings, Local Strategic Partnership meetings and Youth Action boards. They also meet with senior representatives from the Local Authority and partners to champion young people’s views. The current Bolton Youth Voice Youth MPs recently had the chance to represent the town at the House of Commons.

Full story: https://www.bolton-sfc.ac.uk/news-and-dates/latest-news/three-b6-students-delighted-to-run-as-youth-mp-candidates/

14/12/2025

Feedback Friday 🗓 💙

Youth Council - this week was Healthy Minds lead by Kajol and Pauline from MHIST and CAMHS who delivered a session with a focus on men and boys mental health and some discussions and feedback about Trusted Adults and all the work YC have been involved in regarding this. Great session 👏

Voice4U- this week the young people chose some colours they'd like to see in the future Care Leavers Hub. After this we played Grab the Mic and created festive mini rolls 😋🎤

NexStep - the young people got crafty making caks pops and festive mini rolls 🧁

YOFO - This was the last yofo of 2026 with voting for new steering group members and a focus on education. Congratulations to all the newly elected steering group members & our three young people from youth council. Everyones speeches we fantastic 👍📣

05/12/2025

Feedback Friday 🗓 💙

Another fantastic week for the Participation and Engagement team

Youth council - a HUGE congratulations to all 10 young people who have been shortlisted to run in the Youth MP elections. And a massive well done to all the young people who had the confidence to deliver their amazing speech. You all made it very tough to whittle it down to 10 and we wish we could have all of you run! To reiterate what we said on the night, you demonstrated your passion, ambitions and drive to make your community better; bring that same energy into youth council where there are plenty of opportunities to work on projects and step into different representative and leadership roles. We'd love to have you.

Voice4U - we spent the session creating cake pops. It was messy and fun and definitely a learning curve! We also celebrated a fabulous birthday for Mary Martin who leads Voice4U & NextStep. Thank you for all your hard work and showing young people the importance of using their voice.

NextStep- we treated the group to a lovely cheese board while we collated all the professional and young person feedback regarding the hub. You worked really hard these past few weeks, we really appreciate it

02/12/2025

Tonight's the big night for the Youth MP selection! We've got a bunch of eager beavers ready to dazzle Bolton Council's local councillors, Children's Services directors and many more.
Best of luck to all the candidates we can't wait to see everyone there! 📢