By Any Means Possible Podcast
As women youth workers with limited resources we had to get the job of supporting young people done by any means possible. Our practice focused on young people, their lives, their achievements, their stories. Well now it’s our turn! These podcasts focus on our stories as youth workers: the favours we pulled, the collaborations we made, the small untruths we told, the antics we got up to and the lives we changed, which of course included our own.
By Any Means Possible Podcast
Episode 001: I get to do this and get paid?
For our first podcast, we are focussing on how we got into youth work in the first place. What made us want to work with young people? What opportunities were open to us? Who encouraged and supported us? And how were we supported in our development as respected and valued professionals?
In our stories from the 1980s we’ll be touching on a range of themes that we’ll be returning to in other episodes: positive female role models, fighting for a fair share of resources for girls and young women, and access to the opportunity for working class women to go to university.
Credits
All the women youth workers who’ve given the time to share their stories with us.
Hindley and Leigh Libraries for providing our meeting and recording space.
The Empowerment People for funding the project and Sally Carr and Mary Kenny for coordinating - admin@empowermentpeople.org.uk for enquiries
Marie Brookfield and Sue Lewis for coordinating the group, venues and refreshments for our meetings
Paul Lewis for recording, editing, producing, composing the music and general podcast knowhow - https://www.mrlewismedia.co.uk
Ali Hanbury for coordinating our launch event
ArtByFlatboy for our launch artwork @flatb0y
Arden Fitzroy whose training set us on the path to podcasting @ardenfitzroy
Polly Playford Design for our logos and podcast artwork - https://pollyplayford.com
Chapter One Cafe and Gracious Grub for feeding us @graciousgrub
Youth Focus North West for giving our resources a home - https://www.youthfocusnw.org.uk
And all the wonderful youth workers who have believed in us and supported us over the years.
And all the young people who enriched our lives.