I was struck this week after 2 significant conversations with 2 different young people about their complicated family set up’s and that the context a young person lives in is so key to who they are. For every 2 hours they are with us a week there are 166 hours of the week they are [...]
I (Fiona) moved to Tower Hamlets 5 years ago to do youth work and for me that also meant wanting to become part of the local community. I naively thought that being accepted by people meant becoming like them. It didn’t take me very long to realise that however much I dropped my t’s and [...]
Pushing boundaries is part of growing up and responding to this pushing is part of being a youth worker. As mentioned last week we have started a new session and changed an existing one. For the young people new sessions mean new boundaries which means a new opportunity to push those boundaries! The last couple [...]
It has been a busy couple of weeks! As per the last post we visited the Mirror last Tuesday. Last Thursday (27th October 2011) we had a visit from Mr Pascoe a director from Goldman Sachs. He lead a quick quiz (with a prize) to spike interest and then gave an excellent short talk about [...]
I have some better photographs on the way but this is the paper store at the printing press that prints The Daily Mirror amongst other papers. They use all of this (re-cycled) paper in the course of one week! So this week (half-term) we took some young people to visit The Trinity Mirror Group. This [...]
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