Latest News and Stories from Volunteer Centre Sutton
Welcome to our blog! Here you'll find a whole range of stories, ideas and resources all about volunteering.
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On Thursday 3rd July, young people from across the Borough came together to take action on racism and present ideas to key decision makers.
25 July 2025
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Young people took the lead at a London Borough of Sutton Local Committee Meeting on 19 June 2025
08 July 2025
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We share the responses from CAMHS, School nurses and a local MP to the three questions posed by young people on mental health in schools and share some tools to help.
09 April 2025
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The Young Commissioners work closely with the Met Police and the council safety teams on a number of projects including helping with Child Sexual Exploitation awareness week, street safety, Met Police Updates and creating a newsletter to communicate the key police news to schools. Please help share this newsletter with young people you know.
03 April 2025
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The first Sutton Youth Board for this year was held at Sutton Central Library on Thursday 13th March. A new format was devised to give even more power to young people including creating the content and leading the session.
17 March 2025
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Ten Young Commissioners opened up the Young Women’s Empowerment event at Throwley Yard Cinema on Thursday 27th February.
17 March 2025
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The latest Sutton Youth Board in December 2024 focused on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. It was great to see new faces there and new voices being heard on this important topic and an apt one to finish the year with after our launch of “Celebrating Sutton’s Diversity”.
17 December 2024
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Our annual gathering for young people aged 11-25 years old was a bustling spectacular. We were blown away to have over 400 registrations and over 220 people checked in on the day!
16 October 2024
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Professionals and young people meet to discuss challenges on safety and solutions.
14 August 2024
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Tackling the challenges faced by young people’s mental health.
04 April 2024
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The Sutton Youth Summit, held on Thursday 16th November 2023, was a resounding success, drawing over 80 young people and 20 adults from the community.
22 November 2023
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Get ready for the Sutton Youth Summit 2023: cost of living, safety, inequalities, mental health.
05 October 2023
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Sutton’s Young Commissioners were delighted to welcome over 50 people (of which 35 were young people) to their Youth Voice Summit on Thursday 22nd September at Sutton Library
27 July 2022
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