Thursday 29 April 2010

Three new arrivals

Young men who have taken U-Too's course for young fathers-to-be have recently become fathers.











Here's Nick and Jade with Keira, Stuart with Sapphire, a sister for Jessica, and Bradley and Paige with Liam. Both Jade and Paige had attended our young mums-to-be course. Good luck to all of them!

Tuesday 27 April 2010

Centre for Social Justice

There's a geat photo of Brett, April and the kids on the CSJ's website at http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/default.asp?pageref=446 It illustrates an article a CSJ seminar in London taking place on Friday where I'll be talking about our work.

Friday 23 April 2010

Silver Arts Award

Brett, Lisa and JJ had their last session with Madeleine at Create's studio in the Wyvern Theatre yesterday. So their photography Arts challenge is nearly finished. Den, Mark and Steven have made good progress with their music Arts challenge and the tracks for their CDs have been laid down. Dienka is busy sorting ot the next bit of the Award and we hope everyone will have finished by July. There's already talk of going for Gold!

Tuesday 20 April 2010

The General Election

Difficult to believe, but here's the Prime Minister in U-Too's teaching room at the Drove Children's Centre in Swindon this afternoon, talking to one of the young mums who has completed the YMTB course. He had asked to meet the current group of young mums-to-be and spoke to Lesley, the group's tutor, and to Carolyn. So altho' this is not strictly a dads' item, it looks as if the work of U-Too, and sister organisations, have an impact at a national level. And, although it is easy to be cynical about what might be construed as a typical photo-opp, he appeared to be genuinely interested in our work. Not that you'd have seen any of this if you watched tonight's news bulletins.