On Friday, I completed my Red Devils Skydive at Netheravon. It was an amazing experience and a lot of fun! We jumped from around 12,000ft and got up to speeds of nearly 120mph during the freefall, including diving through a cloud! I’m waiting for the DVD footage to be sent through so I can relive [...]
Gever Tulley, is the founder of Tinkering School and author of the book ‘Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do).’ He is also a self-taught computer scientist who holds multiple technology patents. The tinkering school offers an exploratory curriculum designed to help kids – ages 8 to 17 – learn how to build [...]
The following is a short article I wrote that was published in Youth Work Now Magazine (A supplement of Children & Young People Now) last week. In addition to the print copy, it can be found on the CYPNow website here. Safe sex – or healthy relationships?
On Tuesday last week I went to ‘Transforming Youth Services’, a stakeholder consultation on the future of the statutory Youth Service in West Sussex. Our council like most others, have to make cuts across a number of services in order to reduce spending and meet targets. In West Sussex, the reduction needed in the Youth [...]
Children & Young People Now Magazine, run a short feature each week called Vox Pop where people give their view on a topical question. A few weeks back I was asked to weigh in on the debate over a new title for qualified youth workers. The published article is below: Heads of youth services are [...]
