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Friday Mar 17, 2006
YouthNet is 10!
YouthNet is 10 years old. As way of celebration, we had an event last night in the London Stock Exchange to thank those who already work with us and woo those who could - and should - work with us.
As an organisation, we've come a long way. I joined about seven years ago and at the time there were six employees and the charity was based in a back room in the Disney offices in West Kensington. Our office was known as 'Mickey Mouse's dressing room': every now and again, someone would walk in, don a Mickey suit and walk back out, presumably to entertain visiting children. At least I hope that's what he was doing.
Now YouthNet numbers 35 fulltime staff, plus over 50 volunteers and hundreds of partners across the voluntary, public and commercial sector. Lots more people and bigger budgets, but the consistent thing has been a real commitment to doing great and useful stuff through the use of technology.
Last night's event was an opportunity to show off some of the work we do. The best way we can do this is have the people we help, speak about their experiences. We brought together a panel of users of TheSite.org and volunteers who work on the askTheSite service to talk openly about their lives and the impact YouthNet has had on them.
Below are a few photos from the event. On Monday we should have the MP3 audio files of the panel discussion available for download.
If you were at the event, it would be great if you left a comment here saying what you thought of it.
