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May 18th, 2012

‘My dad divorced me…’

This is a quote from a young person this week. This is a profound statement, this young person feels that there dad has not only divorced their mum but also them. They then went on to say that they did not want to talk about it any more because of the hurt around it. This [...]

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May 11th, 2012

Beauty is only skin deep.

This blog was inspired by the sign in the picture, it is of Riccardo Street in Poplar next to our office, it is a nice new sign on some old blocks from the 50′s. They have given the hold street (almost) a new facade, it got me thinking. Often when I have people come to [...]

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May 4th, 2012

Brownies and Autonomy

Working with young people is essential to what we believe in, rather than working on young people (it’s part of our mission). This means trying our best to listen you young people and act upon what we hear them saying. I think sometimes we are very good at doing this and it is a clear [...]

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April 27th, 2012

Glitter

We went to visit a someone in prison yesterday. He’s a young man we used to work with and have been visiting regularly over the last few months. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to sit and reflect with him on the past, the situation he finds himself in and his hopes and [...]

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April 20th, 2012

Boundaries

Last night we had to sit down with the younger youth club and have a conversation about recent behaviour, which has been somewhat challenging! We sat down and discussed what we would wanted the environment to be like in the Youth Club, and some of the differences. This was a journey that we walked together [...]

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