This is a very interesting piece of news where the outcome will affect the youth work landscape in the UK for a long time: Select committee chairman blasts youth sector for lack of evidence. The chairman of the education select committee inquiry into young people’s services has accused the youth sector of failing to make [...]
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 #4: Not believing what I’m told This mistake follows on directly from my last mistake where [...]
Wednesday night (19th January) in the UK, Channel4 aired Episode 1 of a new show called The Joy of Teen Sex (link to the channel4 website here, and the ‘sexperience’ site here. Warning: may contain explicit content). Here is the first two lines of the press release: Sex is part of every teenager’s life. They [...]
If you live in the UK then you can’t have escaped the fact that many public services are either being axed or under threat of severe funding cuts. Sadly in the youth sector nearly every single service is facing hugely disproportionate cuts, with many services simply shutting down (mainly because they are not seen as [...]
Late last week I read a blog post by Brian Berry (a Student Pastor in San Diego, USA) about how his job is changing: I have been asked to expand my oversight responsibilities to include children’s ministry as well. [Probably cuz we I have 5 of them living in my home ] This means in [...]
On 27th – 28th June 2011, Youth and Policy is sponsoring the third ‘Thinking Seriously’ conference looking at the theme of Young People and Faith: implications for youth working. I’ve been invited to participate to the event, and am already quite nervous about it! Here’s some more information: Youth and Policy’s third ‘thinking seriously’ conference [...]
YCML (youth, culture and mission lectures) are again running two days of lectures for youth workers who are interested in taking their theology and practice that little bit deeper. About YCML The youth, culture and mission lectures is a collaboration of three groups who all have a passion for young people and mission. The Sophia [...]
This post is part of a short series written by volunteers and workers I have had the privilege of working alongside. I have asked a few of these individuals to write about their experiences of working with young people in their particular context. This post is written by long-term friend Dave Johnson: I take it [...]
Back in September, I posted that I was thinking about changing the name of this website to something that better reflected the content (rather than just my name which I feel is bit ego-centric). I got 23 responses to the poll, with 15 people (65%) saying that I should stick with using jonjolly.com. I also [...]
Yes I may be a few days late, but the sentiment is still there right? I hope you’ve had a relaxing and fun Christmas break. I thought I’d share a couple of the gifts I got with you. The first is this beauty (the T-shirt, not the guy). My fantastic wife Kirsty bought it off [...]
