by admin | Jan 9, 2026 | Charity, Children, Mental Health, Partnerships, Relationships, Schools, Wellbeing, Young People, Youth Centre, Youth Work
Can a youth club revival help the ‘anxious generation’? – podcast | Young people | The Guardian As I sat in the dark by a smouldering fire before heading to bed, one of the youth work forums I’m part of shared a link to an article in The Guardian with a...
by admin | Jan 8, 2026 | Children, Coaching, Young People
Finding Warmth in the Cold It was a bitterly cold winter’s day. The first Monday of January 2026. My role as Front of House Manager with Creation Theatre had come to an end the day before and it was time to reopen the practice room and welcome in my first coaching...
by admin | Oct 21, 2025 | Children, Coaching, Young People
I have a question but you can’t answer it. Does leave me with a bit of a predicament now so I’ll keep talking to the wall and wish I hadn’t prepared for this moment. Hopefully you’ll still be listening by the end. Seems weird right, but this is potentially the way...
by admin | Oct 17, 2025 | Children, Coaching, Schools, Wellbeing, Young People
Big Ofsted Changes Are Coming And Here’s Why It Matters Back when I worked firmly IN both primary and secondary education (not on the edges as I do with coaching), as well as for the local authority, the word Ofsted could send the whole building into a spin. It was...
by admin | Nov 22, 2024 | Children, Partnerships, Young People, Youth Centre, Youth Work
Reflecting on my first few months as a Charity Manager I stumbled on an old notebook that acted as a professional reflective journal when I was Charity Manager of a small youth charity. For the first ten weeks I wrote and reflected every single day about the...
by admin | Jul 10, 2024 | Attention, Children, Massage, Participation, Story Massage, Young People
I still hear people say that Covid-19 has a lot to answer for. The impact it had at the time still has ripples years later. The advice at the time of the global pandemic included staying apart from other people. For many, especially those who are tactile, this proved...
