After the summer program we returned back to Longfield Drive MUGA to find it covered in broken glass, litter and bits of household rubbish. Rather than waiting for the council or community landlord to clean it up the young people wanted to take matters into their own hands! We returned the following week with bin […]
Never Mind the Age Gap
This half term we have had young people from Bradford Academy partner with a community project for the elderly to help break down generational boundaries. The pupils in year 8, spent time baking, visiting the project helping serve dinners and play bowls with elderly people from their community. This was a fantastic afternoon of building […]
Building Foundations
After an eventful summer holidays, our young people are now back at school and settling in smoothly. We have now returned to our programme of drop ins and what we call the learning hub. This is where our young people explore career ideas and research topics that they are interested in. A few of them […]
What’s going on this summer…
Summer is here and we are getting excited for all we have planned!! There is so much going on! London kicks off with a big summer BBQ and giant water fight, while Bradford begins with a week of Sanctuary. London is then getting creative and active and Bradford sporty and geeky. Finally it all ends […]
Tackling knife crime
There has been a worrying increase in knife crime in South West London recently. Over the past few months we have seen several incidents shake the communities that we live and work in. This month within a period of 16 days 11 Londoners were stabbed to death and official statistics released in April showed a 20% increase in the rate of knife attacks in the capital. […]
New work
Over the past few months we have begun some new work in Holme Wood, Bradford’s biggest estate. We are working together with the Salvation Army Centre, St Christopher’s Youth Project and the Edge Project to deliver 2 new open access sessions of youth work. Tuesdays are an evening football and activity session based on a […]
Easter get-away
During the Easter holidays we took a group of 8 young people to Black Hills scout Camp for three days. Whilst there we had a BBQ, sung plenty of songs around campfires, went for a few walks, played many games of hide and seek in the woods as well as doing a social action project […]