London Conference

The conference took place at the Voluntary Sector Resource Centre in Holloway, London last Wednesday. Its title was Supporting Young Fathers: more promising practice and over 80 people attended. I gave a quick run through about U-Too and its development and then we ran a couple of workshops. We split ourselves into three sets of presenters: Lee and Pat, Mark and Lisa, and myself. We split the workshop participants into three, and each spent 20 minutes with each group during the hour-long workshop. One of the participants has since emailed me and asked me to "Please pass on my regards to the team, they were excellent in providing an insight into the life of a young father and how they have/are benefiting from the work that you do."

Lee was supposed to represent young fathers-to-be but Tash gave birth to Leo three weeks early!

Jeremy Davies from the Fatherhood Institute was at the conference and introduced the FI's resource pack, Invisible Fathers: Working with young dads. Not only does it contain our DVD but also lots of photos of U-Too dads with their children. We're a bit chuffed. He has given us a complimentary copy but I'm hoping to persuade him to let us have enough copies to give to each of the dads whose photos appear in the pack.

Two new arrivals

Congratulations to Anthony and Chelsey on the birth of Leila and to Paddy and Tash on the birth of Harley. Both mothers and babies are doing well, and both fathers look pretty good to!