- Did you always want to be a youth worker?
I didn't know youth work existed. Actually, I did used to be a leader in a Girls Friendly Society but I didn't know it was something people could get paid for. I was always very interested in society and people. I thought I'd like to work with young people but informally, not like a teacher. My mum sent me a job ad for assistant leader at Chester le Street Youth Centre and said: "Is this the kind of thing?"
- And you got the job?
Yes. It was a great Albemarle-style centre that had 100 kids a night. I got stuck in to all kinds of things - it was exactly what I was looking for. Then I was a youth tutor in Wakefield, and spent five years in Clifton, Nottingham, where I started doing much more issue-based work and getting young people to run things themselves.
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