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September 16th, 2011

LEAP and Canaan

We have been working with LEAP  (and now Poplar HARCA) for a number of months and I have gone on about it, but I wanted to give you the best insight I can possibly give you about this piece of work: that of a young person. This young person (pictured) took part in a Quarrel Shop at LEAP [...]

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September 10th, 2011

Highs and Lows

Working with young people can be really great, sometimes working with young people can be a real struggle! For all you youth workers out there I am sure you can appreciate this, for those of you that do not work with young people or do not work with young people as a youth worker, it [...]

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September 2nd, 2011

Funding Update

I just wanted to up date you on the current funding situation, as some of you may have been aware for a long time it was looking a little bit scary at the Canaan Project, but we have made it to our Year End 1st September 2011 and there were times this was looking like [...]

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August 26th, 2011

A quick stat!

A interesting paragraph from a government report from the Educational Select Committee on services for young people. ‘Around 85% of young people’s waking hours are spent outside formal education, yet each year local authorities spend 55 times more on formal education than they do on providing services for young people outside the school day. We [...]

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August 19th, 2011

The ‘feds’ came…

We have been covering a session at the Bede I mentioned it in a previous blog this was our last week. This has been a brilliant opportunity to get to know some more young people and work with a local partner. We have run a variety of sessions, on Drugs and Alcohol education, aspirations, employment [...]

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