The Carmarthenshire Youth Council (CYC) is a youth led organisation that lobbies, advocates, promotes and fights for the rights of young people in Carmarthenshire.

We aim to build the confidence and awareness of all young people so that they can assert their rights.

There are five important areas that our work focuses on:

• Working with YOU (e.g. we increase young peoples awareness about their rights so they can change things for themselves).
• Speaking up, Fighting for and Making change (e.g. we stand up for our rights in organisations like District Councils to make sure we are included in their work)
• Getting YOU involved (e.g. we go out and meet other young people from all over Carmarthenshire to tell us what they think needs to change)
• Getting the message out (e.g. we provide opportunities for other young people to meet face to face with councillors, business owners etc.)
• Increasing resources and improving effectiveness (e.g. we work with funders to get the money we need to do our work well)

The following information (and adjacent diagram) shows the CYC's structure: