sounddelivery

sounddelivery has just passed an important milestone – our fifth birthday. And as we start 2012 we’ve been reflecting on our achievements to date and what we hope to achieve in the future.

Attending the recent launch of the London Youth report: Hunch: ‘A vision for youth in post austerity Britain’ I was inspired by one of the charity’s trustees, 21-year-old Francis Augusto. He came to the UK from Angola with his family to start a new life. But life was challenging and at the age of 13 he was going off the rails and was arrested for GBH. However, his life was turned around thanks to a special youth worker who supported him and encouraged him “to be the best he could be”.

As I walked along Wood Green High Street on Sunday afternoon surveying the damage of looted sports shops the overriding feeling was of sadness that young people would again be tarnished as yobs. I’ve been meaning to write a blog post on this topic for a while but the disturbances/riots which have taken place over the last few days have intensified my passion about this issue.

After many months of working in various locations – mainly Jude’s flat – we have finally taken the plunge and moved into an office of our own. Our new base is in Aldgate in East London and we’re neighbours with Happy Computers where we run most of our training courses.

We are now the proud winners of a Jodi Award for our project Podcasts from the Past : a joint project with the Museum of London, sounddelivery and VocalEyes. Our project, which won the Digital Access Online Award, involved a group of unemployed Londoners creating audio description podcasts for blind and partially sighted people for the Museum of London.