Our first blog

Welcome to our first blog!!

Let us first of all tell you how we got here. Big credit has to go to DK our man over at mediasnakers.com, a funky, sexy and cool company with plenty of bright ideas for engaging young people. He came across to sunny old Oldham (and it was sunny for a change!) to one of our Monthly Business Meetings (MBM). These meetings are an all day affair, were all the full time staff get together on the first Friday of every month to discuss issues concerning our work. Some permanent agenda items include Health & Saftey, Finance & Budgets and Equality & Diversity. So as you can guess, even though the information you get at these meetings is invaluable, they can drag on a bit! We also get the opportunity to listen to guest speakers give a presentation on one subject or another, sometimes on something that you had a two day training course on only the week previous.

DK’s presentation was different! It had ideas running through our heads, creative juices flowing and most of all funny little clips he had downloaded from youtube. He talk about different platforms that young people use, warped broswer websites, bluetooth dongles and blogs. Even the most technophobic of our staff enjoyed his little 1 hour production (more like 2 hours!!!!) and were motivated into using the web and screaming for training from his programme. Anyway we finished promoting his company now, but if you get a chance to talk to this man I highly recommend it.

At any rate it was the blog idea that we wanted to try first. After a little research including the only other 2 uk based youth worker blogs by Hilary Mason and Dave Petrie we have decided that a diary style blog would suit us best. We hope to have plenty of ‘inspiration’ from our respective centres and some ‘interesting’ stories from the young people who access it. Hopefully this will provide a good read for both youth workers and young people alike and maybe if we can get the young people to contribute to our blog we may even get some recorded and accreditted outcomes from it. (You’ve got to think about those REYS Targets! )

Anywho to finish off our first blog we thought we leave you with some youth work conundrums:

When young people come to the centre with a can of stella and they are asked to leave because they are drinking, why do they down the can outside the centre then ask if they can come in now?

What is so facinating about the girls toilets?

Why do young people practice safe water fights with the free condoms?

Young people will vault the pool table, sprint around the centre, hurdle the stacking chairs, play rugby with each others shoes, leap frog over each other and play basketball shoot out with rubbish and the bins. Why do they hate PE?

If young people use f word, c word and t word every other syllable, what do they say when they’re really upset?

When you have barred a young person for the evening, why do they ask ‘Can I come in tonight and be barred tomorrow?’

If you can think of any others please leave us some comments. Thank you for your time and patience hopefully we’ll post another blog soon.

Chris&Sue

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