LDW Vale Youth Champion 2011 Winner is...!!
The message this week was loud and clear ‘Take part, take power!’. This is what Local Democracy Week is all about – young people of all ages, gender and background working together, being a part of decision making and believing in the power of their voice.
So you have all been voting in your masses whilst taking part in our LDW 2011 ‘On the Road’ tour or right here by logging into Swoosh. Every day this week LDW has been visiting a different school including Stanwell, Barry Comp, Bro Morgannwg and St Richard Gwyn.
On Monday all the Youth Champions took to the LDW tour campaigning for your votes and on Day 1 the candidates were neck and neck. Throughout the week some of the Councillors up for Youth Champion came to meet you at lunch times, answering your questions and queries. Can they deliver?
The votes kept coming thick and fast, going from over 500, to over 1000, 1300 and finally reaching over 1600 votes. These incredible numbers were reached in just 5 days of Local Democracy Week. By Day 3 a few of the candidates had started to take the lead and I could see the favourites emerging. This has been top secret and I had been sworn to secrecy.... until now!!!!
So before I go on.. and on... and on! I'm sure you all want to know who had the most votes and will be the Vale Youth Champion 2011-12?
Drum roll please!
Vale Youth Champion Winner 2011-12 is...
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Councillor Richard Bertin!!
Congratulations Richard you took the lead with 769 votes (45.4%), Councillor Chris Williams came in 2nd with 489 votes (28.9%), Councillor Sophie Williams 3rd with 244 votes (14.4%) and 4th Councillor Rob Curtis 192 (11.3%).
It has been a fantastic week! All the candidates have been amazing, so I would like to thank them all personally from the LDW team. You have been brilliantly enthusiastic this week and SO competitive.
We now can look forward to congratulating Councillor Richard Bertin, the crown being handed from last year’s champion Councillor Chris Elmore and welcoming him to his new role of Vale Youth Champion!!
Thank you everyone who took part, got involved, voted, questioned Councillors and supported LDW 2011. Until next year!
Please feel free to comment about LDW below, congratulate the new Youth Champion or any other comments you might have.
6 Comments – Post a comment
Cezza1998
Commented 7 months ago - 14th October 2011 - 17:14pm
well done councillor richard bertin
SwooshMe
Commented 7 months ago - 14th October 2011 - 19:36pm
It was a brilliant week and all the candidates did so well! Bug congratulations to Councillor Richard Bertin. I look forward to seeing him around the Vale supporting young people's views. :)
emily16
Commented 7 months ago - 14th October 2011 - 22:26pm
i voted for him!!! he gave me sweets :P lol. well done councillor richard bertin. well done for you amazing amout of votes :)
paigey babey
Commented 7 months ago - 15th October 2011 - 11:54am
Well done, councllor richard bertin. you did brilliantly, with an astonishing amount of votes. but overall, all of thecandidates did so well, and i cant wait to see you out in the vale of glamorgan supporting young peoples votes, well done!!
luke123
Commented 7 months ago - 17th October 2011 - 19:59pm
Please bring back the cinema
SwooshMe
Commented 7 months ago - 25th October 2011 - 12:43pm
You might also like to know that the cinema was brought up in LDW 2011's Question Time. ( All the Q&A's have been posted LIVE on Swoosh this week too. Here is the Q&A about the cinema>>>
"Are we ever going to have a cinema in Barry? Megan, 12, Barry"
Response from Cllr R Traherne
I very much hope so. Councils don’t normally build and run cinemas, but there is a proposal from a business to run one at Barry Island. This is very good news indeed. At the moment we’re waiting for information from the applicant and then we can make a decision.