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 | Nov 12, 2025 | Mental Health, Theatre, Wellbeing
How will you touch somebody else's today with your truth? Sitting on a cold staircase alone, in silence, I had got through half a packet of pink wafer biscuits in ten minutes. Then an arm wrapped around me. It was my wife. Well, the wonderful lady playing my wife on...
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 | Oct 10, 2023 | Wellbeing
It’s World Mental Health Day. An opportunity to raise awareness. We should be raising awareness every day. I’ve been open about my diagnosis of GAD and depression since soon after I collapsed at work mid-2016. I wasn’t open to start with. I couldn’t have it. I...
by admin | Sep 22, 2023 | Attention, Children, Listening, Relationships, Wellbeing, Young People
Summer days are making way for autumn colours and schools are back with a bang. As seasons change, the children grow and with the view out of the window getting older, we waved our Year 6’s off to their Year 7 schools, hoping that the transitionary period will work...
