Employer: Salmon Youth Centre
Age: 43
Time in job: Two years
Salary range: £33,000 including bonuses
Sam Adofo is in his second stint at the Salmon Youth Centre, a project in Bermondsey in south-east London that has been running since 1907. He arrived from Ghana, aged 21, looking for a career in computer software.
But he soon found he was drawn to working in the youth sector. For 10 years, he worked for Haringey United Church as a youth pastor with a focus on community mentoring. He then spent three years at the Salmon before becoming a youth work co-ordinator at Club House, a voluntary youth group in Westminster.
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