youth services

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

Hope Is Around The Corner

Giving a shit is just the beginning

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

Area in Focus

Group of six cheerful young people posing together in front of a colorful graffiti wall with the word 'Hartcliffe' (partly obscured) on it.

South Bristol’s new youth centre is technically in Knowle West. Can it deliver for kids from Hartcliffe too?

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Samira Musse on community power, how to consult with people, and giving kids confidence lessons

What do the powers-that-be get wrong when they come to talk to communities – and how could this be done better? And why are youth services so crucial?

Alex Turner Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media George Colwey
Alex Turner, Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media and George Colwey
youth bus opening ceremony, several young people gathered around two adults who are about to cut a read ribbon all in front of a colourful bus.

Area in Focus

Somewhere safe: how a modest cash boost could have a big impact on youth services in Kingswood

Alex Turner
Alex Turner
Individual speaking about the need for investment in youth services to end knife crime and youth violence, with text stating 'GE2024: What We Want', for The Bristol Cable.

General Election 2024

VIDEO: What We Want – An investment in young people and services to end knife crime and youth violence

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

Voices

Illustration for knife crime debate article showing contributors, knives and CCTV cameras (credit: @laurence_ware_design)

Is CCTV the answer to Bristol’s knife crime epidemic?

This spring Bristol City Council passed a motion on knife crime, brought by a councillor who lost a friend in an attack in Castle Park. A commitment to increase CCTV grabbed headlines, but will this help? And what else can Bristol do to address the epidemic of violence?

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

Features

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

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

Key4Life, based in Easton, is helping to reduce youth reoffending in Bristol through an innovative rehab programme aimed at men under 30 who are leaving prison or at risk of going inside.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Edition 20

Time to play as Bristol launches plan

Work with under-11s was cut when the council cut its youth services budget by 30% last year, but Bristol’s organisations have come together to find...

Joe Skirkowski

Reports

Felix Rd celebrates 75 years of adventure play

But playworkers warn that the future of play in Bristol is at risk, with adventure playgrounds struggling to stay open without council funding.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Opinion

Opinion: The re-tendering revolution is eroding our public services

Disruption of care, risky transition periods and dangerous cost-cutting reveal a broken commissioning cycle. However, an alternative is possible.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

City

Council awards new youth services contracts two months late

After months of delays, Bristol's reduced youth services will finally launch in June.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers
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