by Simon Pook | May 22, 2024 | Work & study, Get prepared
What are skills? We are developing our skillset all of the time, throughout our lives. Whether in school, college, at home or out with friends, you are practising and developing a set of competencies, knowledge and abilities that can be transferred into your...
by Simon Pook | Jul 25, 2024 | Homepage, Health & wellbeing, Health basics
Water safety On a hot summer’s day, it can feel really tempting to head to your nearest river, reservoir, canal or lake and cool off in the water. There are lots of hidden dangers in open bodies of water that can unfortunately be fatal. Did you know 202 people...
by Simon Pook | Jul 26, 2024 | Health & wellbeing, Health basics
Why should you learn CPR? CPR could save someone’s life, so it’s an incredibly useful skill to have on its own merit. Knowing CPR also helps you take control of situations and makes sure that you won’t just be a bystander if the worst were to happen....
by Simon Pook | Jul 31, 2024 | Get engaged, Politics, citizenship & rights
What is Let Periods Flow? Let Periods Flow is a youth-led campaign by Anisa, from RECLAIM’s Full Time Fierce programme. It campaigns to ensure that schools are properly educating their young people about periods, as well as providing them with easy access to...
by Simon Pook | Aug 8, 2024 | Get engaged, Politics, citizenship & rights
Who are Bite Back? We are a group of young people living in Greater Manchester and we are part of Bite Back, a youth activist movement challenging a food system that’s been set up to fool us all. Greater Manchester is flooded with junk food ads. When we walk to...
