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Tag: young people

Spare a Thought for…

We awoke as a nation on Friday 25th June 2016 to the incredible announcement that Britain has voted to leave the European Union. How and why ever did that happen? As The Economist…

Jeremy Corbyn pledges support for Youth Services

‘Labour leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to fight for statutory youth services if he is chosen to head the party.’ Children and Young People Now have published, on 11.8.15, an article about…

Youth Services

  The end of the summer holidays is fast approaching, have we seen the final acts of youth services as clubs and activities struggle to continue.   Youngsters in King’s Lynn park, Norfolk….

Authorities – give away your space?
Become an ideas enterprise…

We were reading an interesting web article about the internet giant AOL and how they had made available, at no charge, the 225,00 square feet of office space they own in Palo Alto…

Entrepreneurship – social or otherwise

Europa have just released the latest 2009 state of entrepreneurship survey – which interestingly shows that 45% of Europeans would like to be their own boss, if they could. The EU survey suggests that entrepreneurs…

New Youth Citizenship web site

Pass on the message. Directgov have recently launched  Join – a new set of web pages for young people who are interested in volunteering, organisations that can help and the sources of funds…