Ah, time for a mince pie and a cuppa!

Hello Everyone,

Well, as we stagger to the end of 2010, it would seem it has been a year of upheaval and change for many people in the UK.

The last few weeks have seen growing anger and frustration amongst the student community here in Brighton around the increase in tuition fees and the continued Government failure to address bonus culture, tax evasion and other perks of being a big business in Britain.

Our community here at the Young People's Centre continue to feel uncertain of their future in the face of spending cuts, with the Connexions service awaiting the January consultation and redundancy package and many community projects needing to urgently explore their sustainability, as funding becomes more scarce.

Top Five Suggestions on Dealing with Uncertainty:

1. Focus on the solutions, on what you can do.
2. Remember, in every crisis as an opportunity
3. Explore forming partnerships with other able people or organisations in the same boat
4. Go back to the drawing boar d- what is your key aim or objective? how successful is your approach in achieving it? What could you do to be more successful? Perhaps this is a chance to refine your strategy?
5. Pray, laugh, spend time with small children, in nature and with animals, have faith.


Meanwhile in house, we have a few things to celebrate:

Our beautiful new website is up - thanks so much to web designer Steve at Hagler Media, artist Nick Adams of Neek Creative and all the team in-house.

This means that our conference is also live and those early birds among you can go a-ticket buying! www.thelifeproject.co.uk/conference.php

Our BuzzBnk crowdfunding has also gone live - https://prod.buzzbnk.org/ProjectDetails.aspx?projectId=13

We have received funding from May Gurney to roll out subsidised Find Your Vocation workshops for teachers and for students in 2011.

And we have been invited to design and roll out enterprise education projects in Africa and Asia - keep an eye on the site for more details - going international innit!

Best wishes for the season

Erica xx