TCC Young Leaders to Facilitate Youth Mental Health Assemblies in Mold

Young Leaders from St Joseph’s Catholic School are preparing to lead a second round of popular assemblies focused on youth mental health and wellbeing, building on the success of previous youth-led engagement work.

The assemblies will take place at Ysgol Maes Garmon, Mold on 7 July 2026 and will be facilitated entirely by the Young Leaders themselves, who have received training in facilitation and community organising skills through TCC.

Using the Popular Assemblies methodology developed by The Humanity Project, the event will bring together approximately 100 young people to identify, discuss, and vote on the mental health and wellbeing issues that matter most to them.

Unlike traditional consultation exercises, Popular Assemblies place decision-making directly in the hands of young people. Participants are supported to use critical thinking, deliberation, and democratic decision-making to explore challenges affecting their lives and communities before agreeing on practical actions to take forward.

The assemblies form part of TCC’s wider commitment to ensuring that young people are active participants in shaping the services and communities around them.

Ruth Marshall, TCC Co-Manager – Programmes and Partnerships, said:

“At TCC we believe young people have the power and skills to solve issues in their community if given a voice. We are committed to empowering young people to organise on issues that affect them, beyond tokenistic consultations.”

The outcomes from the assemblies will contribute directly to the Mental Health Voices Collaboration (MHVC), the campaign led by the wider TCC Alliance and Advance Brighter Futures to ensure lived experience drives real local change in mental health support.

Young people will have the opportunity to identify key concerns, develop proposals, and create actions that can be presented directly to decision makers through the MHVC campaign.

Ruth Marshall added:

“TCC uses community organising frameworks to hold those in power to account.”

The event demonstrates how young people can move beyond simply being consulted and instead become active leaders in creating positive change within their communities.

To learn more about the Mental Health Voices Collaboration, visit:

To learn more about the TCC Youth Activism Programme, visit:

For further information, contact Ruth Marshall