SOUTH YORKSHIRE YOUTH COMBINED AUTHORITY

As a Youth Combined Authority representing South Yorkshire, we seek to truly reflect and campaign upon the issues in which all young people wish to advocate within the region. To enable this, we hosted an online virtual consultation with young members across South Yorkshire to discuss shared policies and improvements for our local areas. We primarily focused upon five main topics: Active Travel, Public Transport, The Environment, Employment and The Response to the Pandemic. 

A Report from the event was then made to encapsulate what young people had to say. You can find this on Google docs. (Note: this was done before the change of name to the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, so ‘Sheffield City Region’ is used)

SYYCA has been engaging with other groups of young people who engage with their respective metropolitan mayors across England - the group has been working collaboratively with other young people in the Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region and West Midlands Youth Combined Authorities. This has allowed for more perspectives from around the country to influence their work. 

In addition, SYMYCA has been aiding young people in West Yorkshire to start their own YCA to work with the new Mayor, Tracy Brabin.