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Cycling the Dolomites for Step Forward
In July 2014, a team of 4 bikers will conquered the infamous alpine cycle route; the Raid de Dolomites. William Whitby, Ed Ross, Andrew Wanliss-Orlebar and Nick Ross set off from Milan on one of the most arduous road routes in the world: 7 days, 800kms, 30 summits and 20,922m of ascent. Temperatures in the…
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Taslima takes steps towards her future
My name is Taslima Begum, and I’ve completed a two weeks work experience at Step Forward. Working at Step Forward has been a very inspirational and challenging experience that has taught me many skills needed in any field of work. My first day nerves were easily erased by the friendly staff who made these two…
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7 days, 800kms, 30 summits – Cycling the Dolomites for Step Forward
This month, a team of 4 bikers will attempt to conquer the infamous alpine cycle route; the Raid de Dolomites. William Whitby, Ed Ross, Andrew Wanliss-Orlebar and Nick Ross will set off from Milan on Saturday 5th July on one of the most arduous road routes in the world. Over the years, the team have…
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Charity Of The Year!
We were really pleased to welcome Kerri and Neringa into Step Forward when they dropped by to meet the team and hand over a cheque from their fundraising efforts in the last year. Kerri and Neinga are part of the Harvey Nash CSR Team based at Heron Tower. We were voted to be their Charity…
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Supporting students to grow
[flickr id=”10965227123″ thumbnail=”medium_640″ overlay=”true” size=”medium_640″ group=”” align=”none”] We’re always very excited about working with other organisations. This time around, we were asked to develop a new innovative service for Wapping High School to support their new year 7 pupils adjust to life in their new secondary school. We’ve worked with Wapping High School before so…
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Big Thanks to Jennifer for the last 15 years
[flickr id=”6169230036″ thumbnail=”medium” overlay=”true” size=”medium” group=”” align=”none”]Last week we celebrated Jen’s 15 year anniversary at Step Forward at our annual summer celebration. It was great to see so many people turn up and join us for the fun. Jen’s relationship with Step Forward actually began some 23 years ago, way before she officially joined us…
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Stepping UP Summer activity programme
[flickr id=”6144025805″ thumbnail=”medium_640″ overlay=”true” size=”medium_640″ group=”” align=”none”] Last minute preparations are underway for our new Stepping Up Summer activity programme which runs for 3 weeks starting on the 12th August. Our programme is packed full of exciting and varied activities which will take place here at Step Forward or around East London. During our Stepping…
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Young, LGBT or Q and looking for something to do this Saturday?
[flickr id=”6144022989″ thumbnail=”medium_640″ overlay=”true” size=”medium_640″ group=”” align=”none”] Then why not join us for our launch of our fab new Step Out Culture Club here at Step Forward. At our Culture Club young LGBT or Q people can relax, meet, chat and chill together. We will meet on the 1st Saturday of every month between 1…
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Thanks To Our Fabulous Volunteers!
The 1st-7th June is Volunteers Week which gives us all an opportunity to thank all of our volunteers and reflect on the difference they make to Step Forward and the lives young people who use access our services. As well as being Volunteers Week we are also happy to announce that we have been awarded…
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Half-term Activities
[flickr id=”6869420309″ thumbnail=”medium_640″ overlay=”true” size=”medium_640″ group=”” align=”none”]This May half-term is going to be an exciting and busy time for the team here at Step Forward as we welcome young people onto a new Stepping Up activity programme. We have taken the best of our previous successful programmes and added in great new ideas suggested by…