Over the last 5 Months Gillian has  helped organise run and attend  the Highland Youth Voice meetings and conferences.

Gillian have become a member with full voting rights in the Education, Culture and Sport committee and also Joint Committee for Children and Young People. She has attended Ward Forums, Full Council meetings and even been to Orkney with the Scottish Youth Parliament

Gillian has worked with Highland Children’s Forum and  been to 2 UK youth parliament residential and even interviewed Fiona Hislop the Education and Lifelong Learning Minister. She also attended the National Conversation on Scotland’s future without nuclear weapons and was the only one under 40!

In November Gillian helped run a training session on Youth participation at the  Association for the Directors of Education, spoken at the Brooke AGM, the Sexual Health Advisory service. She was keynote speaker along with John Loughton, the chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament, at the Make Waste History Summit and was down in Paisley for World Aids Day and then Manchester with the Ullapool and District Youth Group researching a youth bus project.

Gillians plans for 2008 are to her myself known throughout the network, to visit schools and youth forums, hold surgeries and do presentations and consult with young people, to help towards a manifesto for young people in the highlands.