The team at Step Forward have been supporting local young people throughout lockdown. We have been able to offer all of our support services via telephone or through video calls. We are pleased to have had positive feedback from young people about this new way of connecting with us. We look forward to welcoming new …
Being kind this Mental Health Awareness Week
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week, and the theme for 2020 is kindness. Thankfully, the spread of kindness will never be stopped by a lockdown, a face mask, or a 2m social distance. So here are our top tips for how to be kinder to yourself and others this week, and always: Our top tips Make …
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Coronavirus Update
As we are all aware these are extraordinary and difficult times for everyone locally, nationally and globally. The primary purpose of Step Forward is to serve our local population by offering services which aim to improve the health, wellbeing and life chances of young people. We recognise that in order to best reach our purpose …
Annie’s Fundraising Challenge
My mother entered me for the Royal Parks Half Marathon. It was a ballot and if you didn’t get a place to run you got a Royal Parks hoodie. I have to say, I was really hoping for a hoodie. However, when I received an email confirming that I’d got a place the excitement crept …
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 …
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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Nominate us to be Sainsbury's Local Charity of the year
It’s pretty safe to say that anyone who lives locally has been to the Whitechapel branch of Sainsbury’s at one time or another, and right now, they’re asking people to nominate their favourite local charity for a year of fundraising by their staff and customers. We’d love it if you nominated us – you’ve got …
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Running the London Marathon
It’s the London Marathon this weekend and we are chuffed that our friend and supporter Jane Higgins is running the race to raise much needed funds for us again this year. You can sponsor her here. This will be the 4th marathon Jane has ran to raise funds for us in the last few years. …
Who said takeaways can't be good?
[flickr id=”8495240354″ thumbnail=”medium_640″ overlay=”true” size=”medium_640″ group=”” align=”none”] We’ve discovered the perfect way to reduce the guilt of ordering that tempting takeaway which you know just isn’t as healthy or cheap as the salad in the fridge… All you have to do is: Sign up to Give as you live (with us as your chosen charity) …
Looking for something different to do this half-term?
Following the successful October half-term programme, we are pleased to let you know that we have a brand new Positive Activities for Young People Programme from 18th – 22nd February! In October, the young people who attended PAYP had lots of fun whilst learning new skills. They shared some things about themselves through arts and …
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