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Christmas closure

We wish you all a happy Christmas and New Year and look forward to seeing you in 2023.

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The Pink Pineapple, the Christmas Turnip and a room to reward

The Pink Pineapple – presented to Julie Bartle, 2021

During the 1st Christmas covid lockdown the staff team had a virtual celebration with some silly activities over zoom leading to the overall winner (in this case Julie, our Learning and Volunteer Lead) being presented with the magnificent and now infamous ‘Pink Pineapple’.

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Getting ready for Christmas

Two of our Young Parent Group Volunteer Mums with the Christmas Tree

We love getting ready for Christmas. Once again we had a Rendezvous tree at the annual Christmas Tree Festival – this year decorated by some of our young mums and the little ones who glued, painted and generally had fun getting messy in the process. And Christmas fun doesn’t stop there – after this the groups have parties and pressies for the little ones to look forward too.

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Gillingham newsmakers…

Our Media Makers 2 team in Gillingham are having a blast working with film makers, Marianne King and Julian Bishop, to create their own newsreels, using a mix of location filming and multi-camera studio shoots.

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Classics at the Castle

by Len Copland

A huge thank you to all those amazing people from the Lions who, after a three year absence, worked so hard to put on such a grand event in the summer with ‘Classics in the Castle‘.

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Emily’s story

My name is Emily, I’m 16 years old. I have always struggled with school at how to manage in big groups and not knowing what was going to happen.

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Szy’s story

Szy is a care leaver who didn’t get a Maths qualification whilst he was at school. At 22 he was very aware that not having his Maths GCSE was holding him back in life.

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The Future IS Yours

If you know someone who could do with a bit of help working out what their next steps should be then why not suggest they join our new programme “The Future is Yours?”

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Covid strikes again

Covid is once again on the increase and we have a number of staff and volunteers who are quite unwell.

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