After many years and experience in the working world, I've decided to start something new again.
I will be offering training courses for teenagers / young adults starting in November!
Due to increasing demand, each course starts on the principle of first come, first served.
Content:
Coaching and practical tasks
One module runs...
As schools break up across Dorset for the summer, many young people will be looking at ways to fill their time. With results from the government commissioned Community Life Survey indicating that 29% of 16 to 24 year olds took part in formal volunteering, and 25% in informal volunteering,...
Bailey’s story shared for Young Carers Action Day on 16th March
It’s Young Carers Action Day on 16th March and Carer Support Dorset are raising awareness by sharing the story of one of our sister charities former young carer Bailey, who went from a young adult carer to a job working with us to support carers themselves.
Across the UK, thousands of young people...
A fantastic new idea for Halloween during this Covid-19 pandemic.
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We all shared rainbows in our windows to support our NHS and Carers, we could do the same with pumpkins, creating a pumpkin trail.
Children can then go on a pumpkin hunt in fancy dress around their...
A man looks out of his window and suddenly he is an expert on young people.
The state of these people who believe that embarrassing themselves on TV is more important than empirical data and facts.
“A lot of people like to go after young people, and go on about...
Contrary to the regurgitated propaganda by the far right the Home Office has found no evidence that child sex abusers and grooming gangs are disproportionately from a non white background. In fact the data suggests that the dominant characteristics are white men under the age of 30. This flies...
The Intergenerational Foundation (IF), the Guardian and the National Union of Students (NUS) have teamed up to look for the best three-minute films exploring what it's like to be a young person in the UK today. In Britain 1.5 million people under the age of 30 are unemployed. In...
Dorset Police and the Police and Crime Commissioner have welcomed a report which identifies the Force’s positive practice in working to keep missing children safe. The report titled; ‘Missing children: who cares? The police response to missing and absent children’, forms part of HM Inspectorate of Constabulary’s Police Effectiveness,...
A Dorset sixth-former has led a drive to support a pioneering medical research programme that is helping to find a cure for Coronavirus. Tristram Waters, an 18-year-old Computer Science student at Bryanston School near Blandford, researched and developed a plan to capitalise on the School’s computing resources to support...
Understanding Society is a world leading study of the socio-economic circumstances and attitudes of 100,000 individuals in 40,000 British households. Amongst its many findings it has concluded that unhealthy teenagers are much more likely to be less happy than their healthy counterparts. Read on... Teenagers who turn their backs on...
