London 2012 blog

I have a confession to make. I am thirty eight years old and growing older by the day. I have a sixteen year old son and a fourteen year old daughter. But it has gradually dawned on me that perhaps being old enough to have teenage children disqualifies me from advising on young people’s voices. 

I will be working with Steve Mannix, Cultural Programmes Advisor, and the rest of the Culture team to try and figure out how young people really can have a say in the way LOCOG delivers its culture programme.

So what does qualify me for this role? My work currently as Director at Creative Partnerships (Thames Gateway) and formerly with Brentwood Borough Council and Colchester Youth Arts Partnership has certainly given me something to go on. I’ve also worked with the Duke Of Edinburgh Awards scheme and with young people on ESF funded media courses. This all adds up to quite a few years of working with people less chronologically challenged than myself.  But the truth is, it’s my own children that keep the fire burning in my belly. 

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