young people

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

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Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

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

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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
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Edition 42

In conversation with Rising Arts Agency

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Hope Is Around The Corner

Giving a shit is just the beginning

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

Cable Community News

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

The Cable's investigations lead introduces our new long-term reporting strategy that puts impact at its heart – starting with a deep-dive on child prisons and exclusion from society.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

The Debrief

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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

Football charity the Robins Foundation responded to reports of antisocial behaviour outside Hartcliffe’s Morrisons by organising football sessions in its car park. It’s led to a claimed 60% drop in complaints.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant
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