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groundwork_youth_teamChristmas SpecialHey guys! Welcome to the final episode of the 2020 (award-nominated-but-didn't-quite-win) Podcast. We have taken on board feedback from a lot of you this week as you've been asking for less info and more of our early lockdown rambles. Needless to say, we were more than happy to oblige - we all know by now how much we love to chatter on. So, if you'd like employment/training advice - please see our FB job groups or drop us a message. If you just want to hear us chatter, laugh and play some games - you are in the right place...2020-12-1728 min
groundwork_youth_teamLockdown 1 - ReviewHey guys! We hope you are all doing well. As we've now began lockdown 2 (who'd have thought we'd start numbering these occasions?!), we thought we'd have a bit of a look back on Lockdown 1 to reflect on the crazy time we been through so far. We found looking back, the podcast has really been a reflection of real life. We started out with the hope of engaging with you all, letting you know what we were finding hard or beneficial, having a bit chat about what we were doing to fill our time and generally giving you all something you...2020-11-1800 min
groundwork_youth_teamDurham Works Episode 10 - version 2Edited version of episode 10 for Durham County Council use :)2020-09-2327 mingroundwork_youth_teamEmployment SuccessHey Everyone! This week we are joined by Chelsea Mcgarrel from Optimum Skills as she tells us about the fantastic opportunities they have for our DurhamWorks clients. We also have our usual 'tip of the week' from Successful Steph and we are joined by a current Durham Works participant, Sinead, as she shares her journey on the programme so far. We also reflect on our GNR Group challenge and you'll fine out if we hit the mammoth task of completing 400 activities amongst the team... Thanks to everyone that gave us feedback on last week's podcast, we are tweaking it each...2020-09-1834 min
groundwork_youth_teamWe're back!Hi Guys!
Well... Here is week goodness-knows-what of the podcast. We've had a little break from recording these over the last couple of months as we looked at what we wanted to get out of doing this podcast for you all. We felt like the chatter of what we were doing throughout lockdown was becoming a little outdated as things have started to get back to (dare I say it) some sort of normality?
So, we're back, and we've mixed it up a little with the focus now being about getting you all back into work or training if, of...2020-08-2843 min
groundwork_youth_teamBirthday disasters and Blaydon Race mishaps...Welcome to week 537892782 of the podcast! Your guess is as good as mine on what week we are up to of all of this with days and weeks now fully merging into one. Thanks so much for coming back to listen to yet another episode of our ramblings.
This week it was mine (K) and my Mam's Birthday so you'll hear all about, what can only be described as, the most disastrous isolation Birthday celebrations ever. I mean, if you can find someone that had less luck on their Birthday, I'll personally buy you a bunch of weeds...
Lots going...2020-06-1245 min
groundwork_youth_teamKeeping busy with OLD-school jobs and sports!Hey guys, welcome to this week's podcast! Another week over and done eh?! Where's the time going? This week we're revisiting our most random jobs and hearing about Steven's love of Golf. Our Durham Works client Mia pops in for a chat about how she is finding her time in isolation while being in the shielding group, her NHS role-model and what she's been doing to stay busy. We hope you enjoy listening, as always stay safe and stay ALERT (also, wash those mitts!). Enjoy the bank holiday - Steven and Kirstie :)2020-05-2131 min
groundwork_youth_teamThe new normal and wacky zoo-keepers...Week 6 of the podcast is here ☺️! This week, we are discussing the (very slight) relaxation to isolation rules and progress towards our #260 challenge. In the usual TV review there's a magician, meth head, tiger tamer, country singer, gay polygamist, presidential candidate and convict - and that's just one character! This weeks game-of-the-week (game of the week, game of the week, game of the weeeek - I hope you sang that in your head as bad as I sound each week!) - anyway, this week's was a challenge set by our colleagues at Groundwork Tees Valley. They are running a leaderboard on t...2020-05-1442 min
groundwork_youth_teamYou laugh, you lose!Week 5 of the podcast is here! ☺️ Hoping this isolation doesn't last much longer as there's only so much more Avengers talk I can take🤣. No guests on this week so you're stuck with the two of us for a full episode - we're talking TV reviews, talent shows and fundraising challenges as well as the much anticipated 'game of the week, game of the week, game of the weeeeeeek' - I hope you sang that in your head too and I hope it sounds worse than my rendition that Steven definitely wasn't supposed to be leaving in the final cut and has...2020-05-0136 min
groundwork_youth_teamYour weekend starts right here...Week 4 of the podcast is here - where is the time going? Thanks so much everyone that is listening each week, it's certainly helping to keep us both sane and we hope it is helping some of you too. This week, we had a catch up with one of our DurhamWorks participants about how he is keeping himself busy by chatting to celebs on Zoom! Dean also challenged Steven in this week's head-to-head game of the week - with previous week's in mind, place your bets on who won that one.... We also caught up with one of our colleagues...2020-04-2438 min
groundwork_youth_teamChatter-box!Well, week 3 of lockdown is now done and dusted and it's been announced tonight that there will be a further 3 weeks of isolation in store, you know what that means?...yep, another 3 podcast episodes GUARANTEED woo hoo! I know, I know, we really do spoil you all. Last week's feedback from a few of our clients was that there was waaaay too much serious stuff in week 2, it was suggested that we keep all our Facebook posts for the serious stuff and that the podcast is just plain, simple, chattering - so, that's exactly what we have done. If you...2020-04-1640 min
groundwork_youth_teamGrand national success and spoiler for the English Games...what more could you want? (Let us know!)Hi everyone! Week 2 of the podcast is here - how quick is this time going by?! Bit of a change up already this week, few more guest speakers as it seems every man and his dog wants to get involved with the podcast (LITERALLY- check out our tik-tok videos, we actually had competition from a man and his dog!) Sooo, yeh, we had to take out a lot of our rambling this week to fit our guests parts in without it become another Hollyoaks omnibus length episode, let us know which style of podcast you prefer and we will tweak...2020-04-0942 min
groundwork_youth_teamA little bit of info and a lot of ramble..Here at Groundwork we are, like many others, getting to grips with this whole working from home malarchi! With 90% of our work being face-to-face, we wanted to think of a new way to engage with you all. Sooo, we decided to record a '5 minute' (😂) podcast just to say hi. 2 hours of laughing later, this is what we could pull from the edit. We hope you all enjoy listening as much as we did making it. Thanks so much again to our fabulous guest speakers Paige and Matthew - and thanks for going along with yet another of my random fav...2020-04-0336 min