Setting up the presentation, and the first page, projected onto the wall of the Council Chambers. Webmaster Jeremy Dennis (above) planned the presentation with help from a young volunteer working for Spired.com. See the presentation (html).

On 19 Nov, Oxfordshire celebrated 10 years of Children's Rights with a presentation to Councillors and others. Spired.com attended, with the Graffiti Participation project (on a laptop) showing what young people in Oxfordshire Youth groups told us about mattered to them.

We had opinions from young people in Base 33 Young Mums Group, Vale Youth Forum, Asylum Welcome Jigsaw Youth Group, Cutteslowe Girls Group, Oxford Youth Council, Berinsfield Youth Centre, Wolvercote Young People's Club, Abingdon Bridge, Grove Youth Centre, Chipping Norton Youth Centre, Allandale Youth Centre, BYHP and the Milan Girls Group in Banbury.

Showing the presentation to the Mayor of Oxford and (below) a delegate makes a badge supporting children's rights.

A young volunteer who helps out on Spired.com, was helping with the presentation, which grouped the slogans into the following main concerns:

• Cultural identity, equality and pride
• Respect, and respecting each other
• Handle with care: anti-bullying messages
• Against cruelty to animals
• A better environment for young people
• Protesting against the war
• War and peace
• How I am now
• Statements of approval
• Statements of disapproval
• The courage to be yourself
• Children's rights
• Thinking and being aware
• Love and sex
• Just for fun

As well as showing the presentation, we offered Councillors the opportunity to make their own badges.

You can read the presentation just as the Councillors saw it, here on Spired.com.