Celebrating our Young Leaders: 2023 Youth Council Presentation

Published on 05 December 2023

Members of the 2023 Cowra Youth Council, together with their families gathered at the Cowra Japanese Garden last night for a special presentation to celebrate their achievements throughout 2023.

“Congratulations to the Youth Council on a very successful year. You’ve all been doing wonderful things in the community and I think it’s great that you are building links with other community organisations to run more activities for young people and to participate in community life,” said Mayor of Cowra, Cr Ruth Fagan in presenting certificates of achievement to the Youth Councillors.

The Cowra Youth Council have indeed had a very busy year, participating in the Cowra Festival of International Understanding, Youth Week, NAIDOC Week, Anzac Day, Peace Day and Disability Awareness Day, as well as successfully hosting the recent Body Positivity Day with guest speakers and a screening of the Embrace Kids documentary for hundreds of local school students.

In their leadership report, Cohan Howden (Chairperson), Laura Price (Co- Deputy Chair) and Georgie Anning (Co-Deputy Chair) summed it up best when they said -“As you can see, we’ve been pretty active this year! We’re looking forward to working with our new members and have lots of plans for next year. We’d like to thank the Council for continuing to support us, especially Councillors Judi Smith and Erin Watt and staff members Linda, Emma and Charlotte. We’d also like to thank Mayor Fagan and former Mayor, Cr Bill West, who has always been one of our strongest supporters. To our parents, thank you for supporting us to be involved in Youth Council. Without the support of our families we wouldn’t be able to do all of the things we do.”

The presentation evening farewelled Youth Councillors, Louis Gough (3 years), Ethan Austin (4 years), Destiny Pepper (4 years) and Alex Shaw (5 years). The presentation night also paid special welcome to six new members joining the Youth Council for 2024, who will be a terrific addition to the Youth Council team.

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR: 2023 Cowra Youth Council members were celebrated at a special presentation night on Monday 4 December, with six new members also welcomed.