Welcome to the Youth Panel page.
What is the Youth Panel?
Each year the Newcastle Youth Fund allocate around £500,000 to a wide range of youth activities across Newcastle.
The Youth Panel play a major role in deciding who receives funding by assessing applications and scoring responses to questions.
The Youth Panel is your chance to help affect the lives of young people across Newcastle by helping decide how Newcastle City Council spend half a million pounds on youth activities.
What is involved?
Regular social events.
Training opportunities linked to the Youth Fund priorities.
Visits to groups supported by the Youth Fund.
3 day residential activity trip.
Application assessment days during the summer holidays.
Think you would be interested in joining the Youth Panel?
Please get in touch to find out more - NewcastleYouthFund@newcastle.gov.uk
To find out more about the Youth Fund, click here.
| 2026 Youth Panel Calendar | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Time | Location | Event |
| Tuesday 26th May | 2pm - 5pm | Meet at Civic Centre | The Whitley Bay social - travel to Whitley Bay for ice creams, chips and more. We will return back to Civic Centre for 5pm |
| Monday 22nd June | 5pm - 7pm | Civic Centre | Assessment process run through and Celebration Event planning |
| Friday 26th June | 5pm - 8pm | Gosforth Civic Theatre | Youth Fund End of Year 4 Celebration Event |
| Monday 13th July | 5pm - 7pm | tbc | Youth Panel social - tbc |
| Mon 27th - Thurs 30th July | 9.30am - 3.30pm | Newcastle Civic Centre | Youth Fund assessments week 1 |
| Mon 3rd - Thurs 6th August | 9.30am - 3.30pm | Newcastle Civic Centre | Youth Fund assessments week 2 |
| Mon 10th - Thurs 13th August | 9.30am - 3.30pm | Newcastle Civic Centre | Youth Fund assessments week 3 |
| Monday 14th September | 5pm - 7pm | tbc | Youth Panel social - tbc |
| Monday 19th October | 5pm - 7pm | tbc | Youth Panel social - tbc |
| Monday 26th - Wed 28th Oct | tbc | Brathay Trust, Ambleside | Youth Panel Residential 2026 |
| Monday 23rd November | 5pm - 7pm | tbc | Youth Panel social - tbc |
| Monday 21st December | 6pm - 8pm | tbc | Youth Panel Christmas Party |