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In celebration of Pride month 2023 you are welcome and invited to join our face to face fostering extravaganza where you will have the opportunity to meet some of our LGBT foster carers to learn more. Your sexuality will never stop you from becoming a foster carer, what matters the most is your passion and determination to transform the life of a child.

Daryll will be discussing the crucial role played by the LGBTQ community in modern music. 

The winner of the first ever Entrepreneurial Barnet Competition, organised by Middlesex University, Barnet Council and Barnet and Southgate College, was announced last week. Rebecca Manning, Chief Executive of the Community Interest Company Happy to Be, was announced as the competition winner after a grand final pitch event on 8 March. 

Barnet Council yesterday (31 May) launched a bold new strategy to enable children and young people to influence decisions in the council. The participation strategy, called My Say Matters, was unveiled by young people at a special event at Hendon Town Hall.

Members of the Youth Parliament and Barnet’s Youth Ambassadors unveiled plans to promote good mental health and equality as one of a number of initiatives presented to Barnet Council’s Children Education & Safeguarding Committee yesterday (17 November). The Youth Parliamentarians and Ambassadors set out their vision for their term following consultation with Barnet’s young people. The four elected Members and their campaigns are:

Barnet Council announces today that the borough’s first LGBTQ+ celebration Pride in the Park will launch later this year. The event at Victoria Park, Finchley, will be held on Sunday 20 August and is being coordinated by a partnership led by Barnet’s LGBTQ+ community group Inkluder CiC. The news comes as the council raises the Rainbow flag above Hendon Town Hall today to mark the start of LGBTQ+ Pride Month.

Voting is now open and will close on 1 March 2024 Barnet’s My Say Matters team are excited to announce the forthcoming cycle of elections to select our next Barnet Members of Youth Parliament and Youth Ambassadors. We have welcomed young people aged 11-16 from all backgrounds and communities to apply and take part in this opportunity.