Our biggest graduation ceremony yet, with students from all over England. (Wales and Northern Ireland will graduate for the first time next year.) We took over Westminster Central Hall for the day and they looked after us tremendously.
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Waithood
I learned a new word recently: “Waithood”; the bewildering time in which increasingly large numbers of young people are spending their best years waiting. They’ve completed school, but haven’t been able to find a job; they feel like they should have moved out of their parents’ house, but they’re still stuck in their childhood bedrooms;…
It is time…
Last year, I sat down for a coffee and a chat with an old friend who is a senior Scouting volunteer in a country in Africa. We talked about the state of youth work in a country that has seen more than its share of civil conflicts, poverty and health pandemics, but is now becoming…
Some very sad news.
Many people contacted me after I wrote about the extraordinary Masixole Mkrakra, the young man from a rural township in South Africa, who discovered a passion for cricket and the Award. I’m sorry to have to report that earlier this week a tragic accident took place and Masixole drowned. As his friend Ross has…
