What’s David Up To

Work

I’m working as a Youth Worker for Westbury-on-Trym Baptist Church, which also has some input to Lawrence Weston Baptist Church. I oversee the provision of youth work to the young people of the church (through three weekly groups etc.) and through a Saturday Night youth club which has up to 60 young people from the neighborhood coming along.

I’ve just finished a degree in Youth and Community Work and Applied Theology. The degree is put together by an consortium called CYM, one of whose members is Bristol Baptist College and it is there, in Clifton, that I had my lectures, tutorials, small groups etc. The study also includes a long term placement for the practice of youth work.

I also work a day a week for INCLUDE, who provide education to young people that have been permanently excluded from school. I work with them doing IT tuition. Before I started the degree I was also doing 3 days a week of support work with one of the projects.

Before the degree, I spent 4.5 years working in IT as an Applications Trainer and consultant, I left the world of business to find an occupation that has ‘positive social outcomes within the communities of Bristol’. To that end I have been working with young people (doing youth work) since 2002

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