VOLUNTEERS are needed to help set up youth councils in South and North Craven so young people in other parts of the district don't lose out, heard councillors.

Skipton has a youth council and was previously known as Craven Youth Council, but because it focuses on Skipton and has no members outside the town, it had changed it's name, heard a meeting of the Skipton and Ripon Area Committee of North Yorkshire Council.

Its chair, James Neill, told the meeting it did not seem fair to continue referring to it as a Craven group when it was just operating in Skipton.

He told the meeting in Skipton at Belle Vue Square that the youth council, which has been going since just before the coronavirus pandemic, was currently concentrating on its Keep Skipton Tidy campaign and also going into schools highlighting the dangers of underage vaping.

As part of its keep Skipton Tidy campaign it was inviting groups to send in pictures of themselves litter-picking which would then be put into a prize draw, with a cash prize.

It had also carried out a youth opportunities survey which asked questions of young people such as whether they were aware of groups and whether they felt safe.