Throughout November and December 2023, we ran nominations and elections for our newest Members of Youth Parliament. Somerset’s three Youth Parliamentarians and their Deputy will represent Somerset at the national UK Youth Parliament. Their term of office will run for two years up until February 2026 and during their term they will run a campaign on a particular topic that is important to the young people of Somerset.
Your Members of Youth Parliament for the 2024-26 term and their campaigns are:
Ellie Bealing
Ellie Bealing will be running her campaign on ‘Young People – Strong, Healthy Lives’, looking at the increased numbers of eating disorders among young people, raising awareness, promoting conversation about it and finding ways to educate people on it.
Emma Brown
Emma Brown’s campaign is on the topic ‘Young People and Social Media’, where she will be addressing the impact of social media on the mental health and wellbeing of young people, raise awareness of the negative impacts of social media on young people and produce resources to help young people with it.
James Lawson
James Lawson will be campaigning about ‘Young People and the Fragile Environment’, where he will be addressing the climate crisis, raising awareness of environmental challenges, produce resources to encourage people to treasure the natural world around us, as well as liaising with local services, youth organisations and projects to identify ways in which we can do our part locally to create a positive impact globally.
In addition, Josh Lancaster was named as Somerset’s Deputy Member of Youth Parliament and will be assisting all three Members of Youth Parliament during their term.
You can keep up to date with our Youth Parliamentarians on this website. It will be your one stop shop for all things Somerset Youth Parliament, featuring information on the Members, updates on their campaigns and the latest news on everything else that Youth Parliament is involved in. We also have information on how you can join the Advisory Group and how you can get involved with the group.
You can read more about our Members of Youth Parliament and their campaign plans on our Meet the group page.
