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Setting Up and Setting Up and Operating a Youth Operating a Youth
Committee Committee
Setting Up and Setting Up and Operating a Youth Operating a Youth
Committee Committee
Orla O’SheaYouth Development Tralee Credit Union Ltd.
Why set up a Youth Committee• Dedicated Team to meet the needs of
youth in the common bond.• Youth are the future.
Abraham Lincoln: “Youth are the people who are going to carry on what we have started.”
• Create, Develop and Promote an appreciation and understanding of TCU.
Tralee Credit Union’s Youth Committee -
Setup• March 2008:
Board of Directors appointed a full time Youth Development Worker.
• June 2008:Youth Officer was appointed from the Board of Directors.
• November 2008:Volunteer Drive and three new members where chosen by the nominating committee.
How it operates• Five Members on the Youth Committee
-Boards Youth Officer-Youth Development Worker-Three Volunteers
• Youth meetings are held once a month
How it operates?
• Youth Policy• Youth Budget• Youth meetings are held once a month
– Youth Development Worker reports to the youth committee on youth events
• Youth Report included in the Board pack each month.
What have our youth Committee achieved?
• Youth Mascot: Ellie is the youth mascot of Tralee Credit Union Ltd.
• She is used as an educational tool to show children that saving can be an adventure and fun and…
• Through Ellie children have become financially aware
Hello Everyone
Primary School Saving Initiative
• €1 Ellie saving stamp scheme• 27 Schools participating each week
Secondary School Credit Union
For every new Ellie Account Opened
• Ellie Wallet • Ellie Certificate• Ellie gift – backpack or Piggy
Youth Newsletter
• Summer and Winter Newsletter• Issued to over 3,000 youth members• Includes youth news and competitions• Since the youth committee formed – growth in
new accounts opened and children saving.
Other Youth Services
Youth Events
Website – www.traleecu.ieStudent Loans Newborn Accounts
Ellie Gift Cards
Questions
Or
Suggestions!
Thank You!