 We're in Milford Haven Youth Centre. This is a drop-in centre for young people aged 11 to 25. We've run a host of programmes here. Youth work traditionally has been seen as something recreational. Now we're recognised as education providers. We've got targeted projects going on here in the day, helping young people into work. Root Stop Opportunity is a project that works on developing vocational skills. So we've got four routes, gardening and woodwork, a bike maintenance course, a social enterprise cafe and our introduction to leisure. Young people have a lot to offer and our job is to make young people active members of their community. I'm doing the Root Stop Opportunity Bodies Cafe here at the Milford Haven Youth Centre. Since I did this as part of an opportunity given by the job centre, I've enjoyed every moment I've been able to do it. I've never really been, like, comfortable around large groups of people and the like and I've always tended to keep to myself and like my small group of friends but coming here I found myself interacting with others and definitely improved my cooking skills and my confidence and I'm glad I've done it. Youth work is the key position to give young people a voice, not only here in the centre and the things that we do, but in the community. The Youth Assembly is a representative group of young people from all over Pembrokeshire and they come together once a month to talk about decision making really and they get involved in decision making at the highest possible level within Pembrokeshire. If you make sure that you involve young people in decision making then you make sure that you've got a service that best meets their needs and that's something that I would definitely think is a really good way to go. I feel like I've gained a lot of skills from being involved in all of youth services, whether that's youth assembly or the local youth club. I've gained a lot of qualifications as well and I would never have been able to achieve those type of things if I weren't involved with youth services. Young people wouldn't really have the opportunity to have that sort of empowerment anywhere else and I think it's good to have young people feel valued in the community as well. It's really important that we use every opportunity we have because there's not that many out there for young people. We've done the bronze quality mark and we're in the process of doing the silver quality mark but a lot of our work focuses around young people that are from very hard to reach groups. They tend to be the young people that haven't had the opportunity to have a voice and they feel like they need to, you know, so the young people sort of taking charge and running their own agenda and everything is what I'd like to see for the future.