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Our campaign Why young mums Young mums&YWCA  The facts   More facts  YoungmumsinWales  Campaign calendar  Campaign material	It's all happening   If you want to know what has been happening - and what's coming up - in the campaign, come back regularly and visit our calendar, or sign up for occasional updates by email. September 2004 8 September Campaign launch - website goes live, the charter is circulated widely and major articles appear in newspapers and magazines 20 September A fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat party conference 26 September At the YWCA stand at Labour party conference, Cherie Blair does our quiz to find out how much she knows about young mums 28 September A fringe meeting at the Labour party conference: Speakers included Andrew Love MP, Margaret Hodge MP, Minister for Children and Young People; Kate Green, Chief Executive, Child Poverty Action Group and Louise Lovelace, a young mum from YWCA Bristol October 2004 4 October A fringe meeting hosted at the Conservative party conference featuring speakers Eleanor Laing MP, Shadow Minister for Women; Gill Tishler, Chief Executive, YWCA; a speaker from fpa and young mums from YWCA centres 21 October At the NUS women's campaign conference we spoke about the campaign and encouraged participants to get involved and show their support November 2004 6 November YWCA spoke at the University of Hull's Gender Studies conference about the young mums campaign . We promoted the key issues faced by young mums 22 November YWCA staff attended 'Housing together' in Cambridge, a conference about housing teenage parents. YWCA ran a stall, attended workshops, distributed information and asked people to sign the young mums' charter 22 November YWCA addressed Lambeth Primary Care Trust's conference. We presented a talk called 'the whole teenager' examining poverty, identity, ambitions and discrimination before putting these into the context of our RESPECT campaign 24 November YWCA staff attended the 'National Youth Conference' run by Young People Now magazine in London. We ran workshops and presentations about young people in the media using our RESPECT young mums campaign as a case study. Alex Thomson, broadcaster from Channel 4 news worked with us on our panel and was very supportive of our campaign 29 November At the 'Teenage pregnancy: education and support in a modern society' conference in London, YWCA ran a workshop about supporting young parents December 2004 1 December YWCA to give keynote speech at 'Celebrating the achievements of young mums' conference at the New Woman project in Worcester 2 December Stall and information point at 'Making a difference', the Swindon teenage pregnancy strategy conference 9 December The London Urban Collective, a youth music project with the chance for the participants to make and promote their own urban music album for commercial release, lend their support to the campaign at their first major London gig January 2005 24 January YWCA met with the Children and Young People’s Minister, Margaret Hodge, to discuss what the Government could do to help improve the lives of young mums February 2005 2 February We spoke about the campaign at the National Union of Students’ 'Pro Choice and Proud of It' conference at the Houses of Parliament. We spoke to student women officers who were interested in the campaign and in pushing for better treatment of young mums in their colleges and universities 11-13 February We staffed a stall at Labour’s spring conference and talked to MPs and ministers about the campaign 17 February YWCA staff spoke at a local teenage pregnancy conference in Durham. The conference entitled ‘Supporting Teenage Parents’ was well attending by professionals working in the field Mother's Day Activity Young mums from YWCA projects around the country made giant Mother’s Day cards with their wishes for the future included in them. The wishes were what they wanted changed in their local communities to improve their lives as young mums. These cards were presented to local policy makers to coincide with Mother’s Day 28 February Shaun Woodward MP, Dave Watts MP and George Howarth MP visited our project in St Helens to receive a symbolic Mother’s Day card which a group of young mums from our projects in St Helens and Kirkby had made March 2005 1 March Councillor Dr Marie Dickie, the County Council Lead member for Children and Families for Northampton received the Mother’s Day card made by young mums at our Northampton project 2 March Young mums from our project in Llanelli visited Jane Davidson, the Welsh Assembly Cabinet Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning at the Welsh Assembly to talk about the campaign and hand over their Mother’s Day card 4 March Councillor Claire Cook, who has special responsibility for Education and Lifelong Learning and Children's Planning at Bristol City Council, met the young mums from our Bristol project and talked to them about the Mother’s Day card they made 5 March Young mums from our project in Dagenham attended the Capital Woman conference organised by the Mayor of London and spoke about their own experiences of school at a seminar on education. YWCA staff also distributed information about the campaign and asked people to sign up to the young mums’ charter
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