The college is a sixth-form college and I organise extracurricular activities that are based around young people's needs. For example, if they're into music we will get artists in to work with the students. They respond to it quite well. A lot of them are in exam year and have those pressures but they enjoy having the extracurricular activities to go to.
How did you get into it? The village where I grew up had a community centre and ran a club where village kids would go. The women wanted to stop doing it and I said: "This isn't fair" and they said: "If you want it, why don't you do it?" so I did. I went home and my parents thought it was great. I put an advert in a local paper and upset the youth service, which I didn't even know existed. I got adult friends of friends to help and we started running it. I then studied youth and community work in Leicester and did some youth work roles in Bedford before coming to London.
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