youth services

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

Area in Focus

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

A huge Youth Zone, part of a national network, will be opening in 2026 by the Imperial Retail Park. But is it what this side of the city needs? And will young people feel welcome, no matter what postcode they live in?

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

Alex Turner Neil Maggs George Colwey
Alex Turner, Neil Maggs and George Colwey

Area in Focus

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.

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

We’re just days away from the general election. In this short video series What We Want, we ask youth workers what they want to see change after 14 years of the Tories.

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

Voices

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

Neil Maggs
Neil Maggs
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

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

City

Determination and struggle to shake “hangover from the past” in Southmead

Sensationalist coverage of “riot” in area shows how media failed to grasp the real challenges faced by the community.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Edition 1

The cost of cutting youth services

Delroy Hibbert is a Project Manager with the charity Full Circle, based in St Pauls, Bristol.

Delroy Hibbert
Delroy Hibbert