Hackney Pirates
Billy Guedalla climbs aboard an adventurous learning project for struggling kids
Generation Hackney
Sam Hooper visits founder Richard Hearn who is fighting to save a lost generation
Each One Teach One
Sean Sales visits rapper Plan B’s charity to find out how they roll!
HUG
Everyone needs a HUG – Jenny McBain finds out about an innovative mental health project.
The Academy Of Culinary Arts
Gastronomic leviathan Albert Roux still has a passion for passing on his enthusiasm for food, discovers Jenny McBain
Mexican Prison Art
Jenny McBain finds out about an extraordinary prison in Mexico where creative endeavour keeps violence at bay.
Inverurie Community News
Jenny McBain discovers a community newspaper put together by people with disabilies. It is a busy editorial meeting in Aberdeenshire and the paper’s contributors are keen to pitch their ideas for the next edition of Inverurie Community News. It is a scene that is replicated at newspapers and magazines across the entire British Isles. However, […]
AltGen
Heralding with joy the first funding of £40,000 given to her new initiative by Co-operatives UK, Rhiannon Colvin, 24, a recent graduate and social entrepreneur, shares her journey so far and explains why she decided to start a co-op social enterprise. “Internet encourages collaboration but the co-op movement in the UK has not been quick […]
Three Avocados
By Danielle Aumord: “It had been a long day. We were all tired and eager to get back to the comfort of our hotel in Jinja (Uganda). And then it happened,” explains 33-year-old Joe Koenig, as he outlines how the not-for-profit organisation, ‘Three Avocados’, that he started, came into being. They sell coffee with 100% […]
Arts Alive
“I was in living Parker Street supported hostel. They call it the drugs den,” 51-year-old artist Lanre Olagoke tells Danielle Aumord, as he explains how the charity ‘Arts Alive’ was set up. Olagoke began painting at the tender age of 5, and set up ‘Arts Alive’ as a prison and community based arts organisation in […]