Bank Holiday recycling and waste collections: There will be no collections on Monday 26 May 2025. Collections will take place one day later than normal for the week until Saturday 31 May 2025.
Your Voice
We value your opinions, especially when ensuring the services we offer meet your needs.
Last summer we held a ‘Your Voice’ survey, we wanted to see what was going well and to identify any gaps in the needs of young people in the area to evaluate current services.
The survey was developed through collaboration with Bridgend Youth Council, the Children's Rights and Participation team and Bridgend Youth Service.
The survey consisted of questions on age, education and employment and youth centre attendance.
It also had questions on factors that contribute towards happiness and unhappiness, current support for emotional wellbeing/ mental health, if and how they would like to access support and the barriers that may stop them from getting support.
The survey received 790 responses.
You can view and download our 'Your Voice Summary' report below:
Your Voice - Anti-Bullying Survey
The survey revealed that the number 1 factor that contributed to young people feeling unhappy was bullying. (The results showed that the data obtained was mainly applicable to those attending secondary school and between the age of 11-13yrs old).
BCBC collaborated with Bridgend Youth Council and a range of professionals to further inquire into how we can support the needs of young people in Bridgend who have experienced bullying.
We created the Your Voice Anti-Bullying Survey to seek young people's feedback on how we can further shape our Youth Support Services to best meet your needs.
This is an anonymous, voluntary survey. You can discontinue the survey at any point.
You Said, We Did
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Date |
Source |
You Said |
We Did |
Status |
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May - December 2024 |
Your Voice Survey – Summer Term 2024 |
“that friends and family make you feel most happy” |
Set up emotional health workshops to involve families. |
Ongoing |
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May - December 2024 |
Your Voice Survey – Summer Term 2024 |
“that bullying contributed to you feeling the most unhappy” |
Designed our next countywide survey to evaluate what works well, and how we can further challenge bullying. |
New survey being launched in May 2025. |
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May - December 2024 |
Your Voice Survey – Summer Term 2024 |
“you currently access support from parents the most” |
Set up working group to develop resources to be used by parents to reinforce interventions offered by our staff. |
Ongoing |
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May - December 2024 |
Your Voice Survey – Summer Term 2024 |
“you would access support if it was available to you” |
Further promoting our support services across schools and the community settings. We have designed: A support Linktree to create a wider awareness of emotional health services in the area. Created an open access drop-in in our Evergreen Youth Hub. Delivering workshops to be accesses direct in our youth centres. Use our mobile youth bus to visit schools to promote services during your breaktimes. |
Ongoing (check out our socials to see when sessions and support are available). |
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May - December 2024 |
Your Voice Survey – Summer Term 2024 |
“you’d like to receive support most in person and you were least likely to want support in a group” |
Realigned our funding to employ additional youth workers to offer face-to-face support Further promoting our support services across schools and the community with youth support presence in schools and with outreach in the community. Set up a working group with our Youth Council to explore peer-to-peer support. |
Ongoing (Check out our socials to see when sessions and support are available). |
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May - December 2024 |
Your Voice Survey – Summer Term 2024 |
“that the fear of being judged was the main thing that would stop you from getting support” |
We are further promoting our support services across community with youth support presence with outreach in the community breaking down the worry and fear of being judged. Tasked our Young Editors to develop posters to promote support services including our counselling service. Redeveloped our chatbot that can be used to speak directly to a youth worker any weekday between 10am and 5pm
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Ongoing
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