Centre for Social Justice

Juliette left three invitations for us to attend the Awards evening in London on 1st July. The CSJ expect the boss to attend, so that's Carolyn; a worker, that's me; and a dad. Which is a bit of a problem. How to decide who should go? But having talked it over with Den, Mark, Brett, Steven, Chris and Chris, everyone agreed that Marcus should have first option because he was unable to attend the Prince's Trust Celebrate Success evening back in November. He's had to check that he can get time off work and told me yesterday that he can. So that's the team that will be going.

It would be fantastic if we turned out to be one of the Award winners as we would use the money to rewrite the young dads-to-be course with the help of an accrediting body like ASDAN. This would mean that organisations using it might have a better chance of drawing down funds to run it. But looking at the other shortlisted groups on the CSJ website, we're up against strong opposition so we must be realistic about our chances of winning. Being on the shortlist itself is a great achievement.