A LYMM High School student has been appointed to a top role at Warrington Youth Voice.

Reece Connell is the assistant chief youth officer for Warrington – giving him responsibility for ensuring that the pledges and priorities of Warrington Youth Voice are implemented on an operational basis. He will directly oversee five heads of departments covering areas such as economic regeneration, education, wellbeing, health, community, transport, environment and climate change.

A former school council member at Lymm High School, Reece was also appointed as head of economic regeneration and is currently leading the planning of a large youth programme for the central 6 areas of Warrington.

He said “Moving forward I hope to support the operational management of Warrington Youth Voice in the discharge of their duties and look forward to working with them on the many projects that we have going on now and in the future.

"Since I was a very young child my parents have always taught me the value of money, this is something that has helped me in my role as head of economic regeneration and I would like to thank my family for being so supportive of my ambitions.”

Louis Groarke, chief youth officer added “Warrington Youth Voice is a growing organisation and we are always looking for new and innovative officers such as Reece, we want to continue serving our community of Warrington for the young people across Warrington.

"It is important to realise the scale at which we work with regards to both quality, quantity and both social and monetary vale of our projects and schemes, but also how much hard work the young people such as Reece Connell are putting in to ensure others are able to live better lives and have more opportunities as young people in Warrington.”

For more information about Warrington Youth Voice visit warringtonyouthvoice.org.