On 9 June, Keighley Youth Service hosted a Black Lives Matter online protest to mark the events that are happening around the world. This was called by the young people…
We’ve been relistening to the excellent About Race podcast from 2018 by Reni Eddo Lodge, author of Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race If you’re looking…
We’re processing what is happening amongst the Black Lives Matter movement, and how we can positively add to this with education and uplifting voices. For now this post is devoted…
We’re really proud that Tia is still involved with BCB despite lockdown. Here she is interviewing Sophie for the BCB Extra show about their experiences over the past month, talking…
On 13 February we gathered together young women from UAK, Parkside and Beckfoot Oakbank who had been involved in the Power Up! Programme and celebrated the work they’d achieved over…
Leadership Squad have been off school officially since Friday and I’ve been working from home since Tuesday to avoid public transport. Now the lockdown is officially in place, to keep…
On Thursday 20 February the girls from Leadership Squad were given the opportunity to visit Manchester. These are the things we have done. We met up at Keighley train station…
David Carpenter from BCB came to interview us for the Shine A Light project, which the students were really excited about, promoting Snapchat featured heavily on their list of questions!…
We had some brilliant news in July that our Arts Council England application to fund a pilot project with young men has been successful! The project is called Shine a…
This week one of the young people I work with came into a session upset. She’d been followed and harassed by an ex boyfriend and 2 of his friends who…