Youth

Fun'Da'Mental workshoppers with finished artwork

Council offers a wide range of activities, support services, and opportunities for young people aged between 12 and 24 years old.

These opportunities are open to any young person who lives, works, attends school or further education in the Shire, or participates in sporting activities in our local government area.

Apart from the projects already running, Council's Community Development team welcomes any other ideas on youth initiatives from the community.

Council has recently received Office for Regional Youth Holiday Break Program funding, and will be offering a wide range of activities to local youth during the Spring school holidays.

Spring School Holidays Program 2023(PDF, 3MB)

To view Council's upcoming youth events, please visit our events directory.

Fun ‘DA’ MENTAL

Wingecarribee Shire Council received a Youth Opportunities grant from the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) to run a full year’s program of creative multimedia arts events led by young people, for young people, in 2022 and the first half of 2023.

This ‘FUN ‘Da’ MENTAL’ project aimed to build the vocational and artistic skills of our local youth while developing their leadership capacity and sense of belonging.

A Youth Committee was established to guide the project’s direction and to organise a diverse range of workshops and exhibitions. 5 young people came on board as part of this Committee, and met fortnightly at Creative Space in Bowral to plan activities and create art.

Over the course of the project, many workshops were run, and opportunities were offered to young artists to exhibit their work in the Civic Centre Atrium Gallery and at Creative Space in Bowral.

Youth Strategy and Action Plan 2016-2026

Council adopted the Wingecarribee Youth Strategy and Action Plan 2016-2026 on 14 December 2016 following an extensive period of community engagement that included community surveys and forums.

The plan aims to support young people in our Shire and encourages and promotes the improvement of services and opportunities for young people.

Create and Celebrate Project

Create & Celebrate was a project funded by Department of Communities and Justice in 2019.

The original goal of the project was to bring together a group of young people to develop and host a series of youth events, activities and workshops.

Shortly after the group was established the Covid-19 pandemic took hold around the globe, but the group of young people involved in Create and Celebrate were not to be stopped and continued to meet goals by developing their program in an online format and hosting range of events.

After the break in Covid restrictions, the group developed and participated in a range of in-person workshops that focused on skill development in the music industry, as well as skills to assist with employment. They were also able to host the Fools Festival that saw over 700 young people from different high schools in the local area connect to celebrate their skills in a live performance at Moss Vale Showground.