For a long time now many people in our community have wanted to see a space dedicated to young people. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service (TALS) and Brighton Council, along with the community based Bridgewater Youth Hub Project Team, are progressing to another stage of the consultation for the Youth Hub in Bridgewater.

A Youth Summit with the theme ‘Everyone Has Something’ is being planned for 27 February 2025 at the Civic Centre in Bridgewater and anyone interested in helping to design this space is welcome to come along.

The Youth Summit will bring together the findings from the ‘chats’ that the Brighton Youth Action Group (BYAG) have been conducting with young people in the community over many months, in addition to the online survey, which has received over 60 responses.

Along with many years of insights and conversations in community, this gives us valuable information on what our young people and community want this new youth space to be. It is time to bring people together to share this information with everyone, as the co-design process moves to another stage.

The Youth Summit will be facilitated by Fiona Miller from the Jeder Institute. Jeder’s underpinning is based on the belief that everybody has skills and abilities, and that there is no one we don’t need when embarking on a journey such as this. The aim is to engage, inspire, build capacity and activate our community to lead the design of the youth space.

The summit will:

• Share insights from community so far and present consolidated information
• Capture stories, thoughts and suggestions.
• Help discover the look and feel of the Youth Hub for the Brighton region.
• Ensure a balance of participation, being led by youth.
• Help move ideas to action.

If you want to be a part of this, would like more information about the Youth Summit or simply want to have a chat about the future youth space, please contact Joselle on jgriffin@tals.net.au.