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- Why your voice is important?
- Who can join?
- Want to get involved?
- End of year celebration
- Sign up and join our sessions
Why your voice is important?
Surrey Youth Voice provides open, safe, and fun spaces for care-experienced young people to be heard, make friends, and develop new skills.
We do this by:
- Running engaging workshops with activities, games, and crafts to spark creativity and laughter.
- Creating a space to connect with others who share similar experiences.
We champion care-experienced young people's voices. By joining our workshops, you can help improve care services. Your feedback is shared with senior managers through action cards, where young people highlight what should start, stop, or change. The right teams then work on these actions, and we update you on progress.
Your voice makes a difference.
Who can join?
In person sessions
Our sessions are for care-experienced children and young people aged 7 to 25 years. These sessions happen on different days depending on how old you are.
- 7 to 12-year-olds, second Saturday every month, from 11.30am until 1.30pm
- 13 to 25-year-olds, third Thursday every month, from 5.30pm until 7.30pm
The venue address/online invites for the above sessions will be sent to you (or your parents/carers) once you have confirmed you would like to attend. Dates and times of our sessions may change, but we will let you know as soon as we can if this happens.
Online sessions
This group is for Surrey care experienced young people who live outside of Surrey, and for young people who live in Surrey who would rather access our groups online.
We know coming to a workshop in person might not be for everyone, and for some of you it might be too far to travel therefore, we've introduced an online spaces for you. This is for young people age:
13 to 25-year-olds, last Wednesday of the month, from 4.30pm until 6pm
In these sessions you'll meet other care-experienced young people, together we will spend some time catching up with each other over a fun game (or two!) before talking about each topic of the session. These sessions will follow a format of two focused sessions and then every third month, have a fun social session: including games and hanging out.
Want to get involved?
April to July 2025
Young people aged 7 to 12
- 31 May Social trip to Chessington World of Adventures. Join us for a jam packed day of fun
- 14 June in Redhill. Eating healthy and staying well. Learn essential life skills in how to look after yourself both physically and mentally through engaging activities
- 12 July in Addlestone. Prep for camp trip. All you need to know and get ready for our time away at summer residential
Young people aged between 13 to 25
- 29 May Social trip to Thorpe Park. Join us for a jam packed day of fun and experience over 30 thrill rides.
- 19 June in Redhill. Mastering life with first aid training. Want to add some more life skills to your tool belt? Come and learn first aid.
- 17 July in Woking. Prep for camp, all you need to know for our time away at summer residential. This session is for 13 to 17 year olds only
- 19 July Social Escape Room. This session is for 18 to 25 year olds only (location to be confirmed)
September to December 2025
This time of year, is all about embracing change. We aim to build on what you've shared with us from earlier in the year and come together as a passionate group to decide on the actions we want to take for positive change. We call this social action. Now, it's over to you. Our in-person groups will collaborate with you to plan the changes we all want to see, and make it happen.
Young people aged 7 to 12
- 13 September in Addlestone. 'Your care community: preparing to make change. Social Action Part 1. This is the first of our planning session to prepare a local action project where you as a group will decide what you want to see changed in your care and set about planning a project to address it
- 11 October in Addlestone. Change makers, planning and preparing for change. Social Action Part 2
- 8 November in Addlestone. Making the change. Social Action Part 3
- 6 December Surrey Youth Voice Awards (location to be confirmed)
- 13 December in Addlestone. Festive party time
Young people aged between 13 to 25
- 1 September in Woking. Mastering life with kitchen skills. We'll be having a cooking workshop and learning how to meal plan and cook simple delicious meals.
- 18 September in Woking. Your care community, preparing to make change. Social Action Part 1. This is the first of our planning session to prepare a local action project where you as a group will decide what you want to see changed in your care and set about planning a project to address it
- 16 October in Woking. Change makers, planning and preparing for change. Social Action Part 2
- 20 November in Woking. Making the change. Social Action Part 3
- 6 December. Surrey Youth Voice Awards (location to be confirmed)
- 18 December in Woking. Festive party time
End of year celebration
In December, we will be hosting the annual Surrey Youth Voice Awards, an incredible event celebrating the achievements of all children and young people in Surrey. Work has started on planning the event, and we are looking forward to sharing information about the awards later this year, so keep an eye out for this.
Sign up and join our workshops
Do you want to learn more or join our groups and workshops? Sign up by completing our expression of interest form or email us at user.voice@surreycc.gov.uk
