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For the last 4 weeks, StreetReach has been delivering an Active Citizenship Program to a group of young adults participating in an MPower group.

I thought it’s time I introduced myself and came out from behind the anonymity of being the ‘we’ often used when writing blogs and posts.

Have you ever wondered whose job it is to fix up the community? Moaned about why the council isn’t doing more? Or blamed local businesses for not doing enough to make the town more successful?

After 15 months of planning the original StreetReach, pausing for covid-19 lockdown 1, rewriting the whole project to work under covid-19 restrictions and then pausing again for covid-19 mini lockdown 2…. We finally got out on the streets!

Youth work alongside schools had to take a two week break as part of the ‘Covid circuit breaker’ and for many of us that’s brought a pause to our work and connection with young people. ​

Hope is there to be found if you keep on looking, often it is our attitude during difficult circumstances that determines how we find it.

We believe that young people have a major role to play in our communities now.

We are so excited to share our introduction video with everyone!

Most projects begin with a lot of work behind the scenes and often only include the people making it happen. At StreetReach we love to include as many people as possible in our journey, especially people who are giving themselves to support our local communities.

As promised, we have our new tshirts and beanie hats to show off.

We wanted to provide each young person who gets involved with StreetReach with a Participants Pack that includes a branded t-shirt and beanie hat.

This week we have been busy preparing the new StreetReach group program which explores what Active Citizenship is and our role in the community.