young people

A man dressed in black stands in front of a white wall with the logo of a cricket club.

Features

‘If you see it, you can be it’: The cricket club creating a more inclusive game

Nationally, less than one percent of recreational cricket players come from African Caribbean backgrounds. The Cable meets the local cricket club with a mission to change that

Ollie Goodwin

Area in Focus

A man in a dark jacket stands in front of an overgrown Family Caring Centre sign, surrounded by trees and branches.

‘South Bristol loses again’: new race to save athletics track

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Cable Community News

Illustration of an individual sitting at a desk with head in hands, and a door with bars visible in the background.

Editorial: Why the Cable will be shining a light on child imprisonment

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison
Illustration featuring the text "The Debrief" in bold red letters, with elements including a microphone, a house, and abstract face silhouettes, all set against a dark blue background. Logo of 'The Bristol Cable' featured on the bottom right.

The Debrief

Listen: The Debrief – what a leaked police report revealed about racial inequalities in stop-and-search

A report leaked to the Cable showed the shocking fact that Black people are 25 times likelier to be strip-searched than white peers. Sean Morrison and Priyanka Raval ask what the findings say about police institutional racism.

Sean Morrison Priyanka Raval George Colwey
Sean Morrison, Priyanka Raval and George Colwey

Area in Focus

The car park kickabouts tackling anti-social behaviour in Hartcliffe

Michal Grant
Michal Grant
Image of Liam Meredith, a mentor at Key4Life charity (credit: David Griffiths)

Features

‘I was a prisoner of my mind’: how a Bristol charity is helping to cut reoffending among young men

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Interviews

Bridging the gap: A campaign empowering south Bristol’s youth

Youth Moves is addressing the cultural, social and economic divide that stops young people south of the river achieving their potential.

Billy Stockwell
Billy Stockwell

Reports

Bristol still failing to shield young people from knife crime, police and council told

The fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Dontae Davis in Lawrence Hill sparked calls for more to be done to protect youngsters.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked on if Drill music is driving knife crime with youth worker Darren Alexander

In the wake of the tragic death of 18-year-old Dontae Davis in Lawrence Hill, what’s behind youth violence? And as Avon and Somerset Police have said recently, is drill music a concern?

Neil Maggs Rosa Eaton Adam Cantwell-Corn
Neil Maggs, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Opinion

‘This is how we can scrap crime without doing the time’

Delroy Hibbert, who is currently helping Bristol young people tell their stories, explains why the revolving door of criminality and incarceration needs to be broken with therapy and investment.

Delroy Hibbert
Delroy Hibbert

Coronavirus in Bristol

Lockdown through a child’s eyes in Bristol

Missing friends but enjoying rare time with family. Feeling cabin bound but not having to go to school. Lockdown for kids in Bristol has both upsides and downsides.

Jack Clements

Edition 22

Down but not out: Voices of young people excluded from school

Often marginalised, rarely listened to or understood, the Cable has been working with young people who have left mainstream education to give them a voice.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards
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