What a year Martha Appleby a qualified referee, Welsh U14s School Girls’s cap BGC Wales U15s Welsh cap, selected for Swansea City U15s & Swansea School GirlsU15s and attended FAW Youth conference last week. Excited to see what the new season brings! #FAWYC #PAWB Noel Mooney

A huge diolch to the guest speakers, FAW staff and staff at Children in Wales for their support of these two events! Develop. Lead. Influence, sport needs it's young people 👏 #FAWYC #PAWB

Eleni and Lily had a great day at the FAW Youth Conference...thank you to all involved ...they cannot wait for the footy season to start now #fawyc #forher #faw

The South Wales leg of this year’s FAW National Youth Conference will open its doors in 1 hour! A big Diolch to Cardiff Embroidery for once again supplying our amazing conference t shirts 👕 #FAWYC #PAWB

This coming Wednesday we welcome another 50 young people between the ages of 12-24 to Dragon Park, Newport for our 2nd National Youth Conference of the year 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚽️ #FAWYC #PAWB

Thank you Eado (photo) for these fantastic photos of Carly at the FAW Youth Conference ❤️ Such a great experience for her & we are very grateful that she was chosen to participate ⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #FAWYC #PAWB #FAWales

Kyrun loved being part of the FA WALES Youth Conference where he got to meet Welsh legend Robert Earnshaw. Massive thank you to Eado (photo) for these great photos. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚽️ #FAWYC #PAWB #FAW

A real pleasure to attend the FAW National Youth Council Conference to promote refereeing in Wales JD Cymru Leagues 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 FA WALES If you are interested in becoming a qualified Referee, visit: becomearef.wales   📸 Eado (photo) Carys Ingram (She/Her/Hers) Jason Webber #FAWYC #PAWB

Today we welcome 50 Young people from across Wales to our FAW National Youth Conference at Colliers Park, Wrexham🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Sessions include, Children's rights, hidden roles in football, change-making, the power of young voices, Coach Ed, Officiating & Walking Football #FAWYC #PAWB

Tomorrow we welcome 50 Young people from across Wales to our FAW National Youth Conference at Colliers Park, Wrexham🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Sessions include, Children's rights, hidden roles in football, change-making, the power of young voices, Coach Ed, Officiating & Walking Football #FAWYC #PAWB

1️⃣ year ago we launched the first ever FAW Youth Conference. This year with 500 applicants & only 100 spaces over two dates, we have been overwhelmed by the amount of young people wanting to become change makers across the game in Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #FAWYC #TogetherStronger

02.08.2023 The launch of inaugural FA WALES Youth Conference. 50 young leaders who learned leadership skills, networking & working in football. Develop. Lead. Influenced 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌍⚽️ These are the qualities to equip the young leaders of today & tomorrow to make change (1/3) #FAWYC

To end the day we challenged the attendees to utilise the skills they learnt throughout the day to come up with their own football session. Using their networking, communication and leadership skills they shaped the warm up, skills and drills & 5 a side matches! (10/10)⚽️ #FAWYC

Our final session of the day saw attendees have opportunity to ask questions to our leaders of tomorrow panel, including panelists Harrison Clayton, Kelly Davies, Gemma Owen and former Cymru captain Ashley Williams. The panel hosted by the amazing Roopa Vyas 🎙️(9/10) #FAWYC

After the break, we restarted with a CV & Application Building workshop with FAW HR Manager Hannah Hopes. Hannah shared her top tips on creating your cover letter, CV, interview skills, as well as providing insight into the jobs all across Football (8/10) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #FAWYC #PAWB

The conclusion of the second workshop of the day saw opportunity for our attendees to network and take a break to get to know each other better, move tables and meet other likeminded individuals 🤝 (7/10) #FAWYC #PAWB

Claire Ewing was on hand to provide a workshop on developing leadership skills, active listening, our body language with others and the power of opening your body up with a superhero pose 🦸 (5/10) #FAWYC #PAWB

To introduce each of our workshops, thank our guests and make sure each table of attendees were making the most out of the day, our FAW Youth Council members were overseeing all of the day's activities 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (4/10) #FAWYC #PAWB

To kick off the conference we heard from Senior EDI Manager Jason Webber, FAW President Steve Williams, Youth Council chair Harrison Clayton and former Cymru international Kelly Davies 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (3/10) #FAWYC #PAWB