I received the following from the National Youth Agency. Feel free to contact them directly if you’re interested! Dear Colleague, Opportunities to be involved in education training standards activity The National Youth Agency is seeking suitably experienced and qualified youth work professionals to get involved in its education training standards (ETS) work through joining professional [...]
Laura Dekker and Safeguarding
On Saturday, 16 Year Old Laura Dekker completed her solo round-the-world sailing adventure. The Dutch teenager started her record breaking voyage at just 14 years old – but only after winning a court case that allowed her to go. Although Laura was born on a boat off the coast of New Zealand (and holds citizenship there), she [...]
Kids in the UK: Poverty and Happiness
This week there’s been a couple of key reports released relating to the quality of life for children and young people in the UK. Firstly the Campaign to End Child Poverty published new figures (estimates for mid 2011) that provide a child poverty map of the whole of the UK. On average, one in five [...]
Safe Network
The Safe Network is an excellent website and series of resources for community and voluntary sector organisations around best practice in keeping children and young people safe. Jointly managed by the NSPCC, Children England and Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT), Safe Network was created as a result of the Government’s Staying Safe action plan and [...]
Happy New Year
A huge thanks to all the readers and contributors who helped make this tiny corner of the internet even slightly interesting during 2011. I trust and pray you have an exciting and fulfilling new year in 2012.
Mistakes I’ve Made #11
Everyone makes mistakes, and when it comes to my youth work I’ve made some clangers! Hopefully by reproducing them here, it may give you a bit of a laugh and help you to avoid doing the same thing. Mistake #11: (Almost) Ruining Christmas Each year our church hold a very short (45 mins) service on [...]
Jargon Busters
Are you confused between your Outputs & Outcomes? What’s the difference between your Vision, Purpose, Aims and Mission? Jargonbusters.org.uk is a new website designed at cutting through the confusing terms and definitions in the charitable and voluntary sector to enable organisations to be clearer in their language. It’s been put together by a group of [...]
Sticky Faith
I’ve recently been reading the Kindle version of Sticky Faith, a book and collection of resources for youth leaders and parents to help young people stick with their faith beyond the youth group. The book comes in two editions; for youth leaders, and for parents, and is accompanied by a comprehensive website that provides additional material [...]
Kids Company Christmas
You many have heard of the Kids Company, a charity proving support for vulnerable children in inner city London. I was asked to post about their upcoming Christmas Party which you can hear about in the short video below. Kids Company help over 17,000 vulnerable children and young people in and around London, and this year, [...]
Launch Pad Breakfast Club
Back in November, our Breakfast Club was featured as part of the BBC Children In Need fundraising programme. Here is the appeal film that they made: As a result of the film, we’ve had loads of interest in the club. Many, many people have commented that they saw us on TV and four individuals have [...]
