young people

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Photography

Photo essay: Glimmer

Photographer Dulcie Wagstaff explores how spirituality feels for a generation brought up around technology

Dulcie Wagstaff

Edition 44

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Quakerism’s quiet youth turn?

Sofia Lambis
Sofia Lambis

Hope Is Around The Corner

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We are the champions

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked – from grassroots football to the World Cup, with Liam Smith

Neil is joined by Liam Smith of Bristol Central youth football club to talk expressing yourself through sport, the tough route to making it, diversity in football – and England's World Cup chances

Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media
Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Ben Carpenter – amid knife crime, online harms and isolation, what should our youth services look like?

Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media
Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

Area in Focus

Play, a risky business: A tour of Bristol’s Adventure Playgrounds

Begonya Miranda
Begonya Miranda

Edition 42

Beats, bars and belonging at ACE

Aspiration Creation Elevation (ACE) offers creative support and guidance to young people. With them, Adam explores the complex realities young people face today - and reflects on his own journey along the way

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Edition 42

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In conversation with Rising Arts Agency

For the past five years, Euella Jackson and Jess Bunyan have co-directed Rising Arts Agency, an organisation empowering young creatives from underrepresented backgrounds. We sit down with them to talk about leadership, innovation, and the challenges of the cultural sector

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Hope Is Around The Corner

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Giving a shit is just the beginning

Reflections on the film ‘Steve’, the power of youth services and what we can all do for the young people of our city

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

Edition 42

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Revealed: How the arms industry is targeting Bristol’s secondary schools

From ‘colour your own F-35’ to missile simulators, arms companies are promoting STEM careers in schools, but obscuring their role in the bloody global arms trade. Teachers, union reps, and campaign groups are pushing back

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Features

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‘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

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

The former Whitchurch Athletics Track risks being bulldozed to make way for a planned housing development. Can local campaigners save it?

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards
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