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Daniel and Megan are two young people from Step Forward Wick Youth who have joined the Steering Group for the Wick Street Design Project. Read on to find out how the next generation is carving out a new image for Wick's town centre.

Hi, we are Daniel and Megan, currently second year pupils at Wick High School.

We are committee members of the youth work project called, Step Forward Wick Youth.

Step Forward Wick Youth was set up a year ago and our main goal was to brighten up Wick and make it a nice place for young people to grow up.

We have had a busy year so far and created 2 colourful murals in the town, the quality of these are really good and we have had positive feedback from everyone.

With this success, our local councillor, Cllr Nicola Sinclair asked us if we would like to be part of the Sustrans Scotland Wick Street Design Project.

We are both part of the Steering Group for this project and we are helping to shape a new design for the High Street by representing young people's views.

As well as the Wick Street Design Project, we have been asked to look at the possibilities of creating a ‘heritage trail`, which has been the part that we are most involved in.

We are in the first stages of this but we are planning routes that could work for this heritage trail, routes that will show off what Wick has to offer and also highlights the town's history and key points of interest. We also spoke about creating an interactive app where you can scan a QR code onto your phone. It is important to us that this app is inclusive to all ages, we wanted to make the trail factual and fun so all generations can enjoy.

We love Wick because it has so much to offer, from history to beautiful scenery.

We want to tell visitors all about our local history and interesting facts like, Wick was the first daylight bombing of World War 2 (most people don’t know that!) And at one point, Wick had the biggest Herring industry in Europe.

We love our town but we need to show it off better! More colour in our streets and facts about our history might help.

We want to thank Sustrans Scotland for coming to Wick and helping us show off our town.

We are delighted to be included in this amazing project, a project that will make us proud of our town.

For more information about Step Forward Wick Youth or the Heritage Trail project, please get in touch with Carly Simpson, Carly.Simpson@highland.gov.uk.