Welcome back to the new term and 2026.

 

I wanted to share a capture of the journey of a student to an employee at Reach.

 

Over the years, we have had many young people come through Reach and come back to work within the service as employees. This has been so powerful and impactful. Today, we have a number of former students working within the service, both on the frontline as youth workers and within the Senior Worker/Safeguarding team.

 

I really hope collectively the team can continue to support other young people into Youth Work and connected partner services. We know that they can offer other young people so much. Our Youth Academy also enables a great route to support this with Toby, who recently completed & continued to volunteer, has now commenced a paid part-time position within the evening youth work team. He is an absolute gem!

 

For the term ahead –

 

• If you are a student at Reach – Hello and welcome back.

• If you are a school or local service, please pop in for a coffee and catch up

• If you are a parent of one of our young people, I hope the service is going well, and if you need anything, please contact Rich on duty

• If you are anyone else, please feel free to get in touch.

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Kind regards

Dan Palmer