Services
Watch our video of young meeting old(er)
Music and video created by the young people at Roundabout’s homeless hostel and the older people’s supported accommodation across the road at St Barnabas House. We wanted to bring the two groups together in an inter-generational project which got the two groups talking to each other and where they could then create something together. We [...]
Intergeneration Project Presentation By Chris M
Today I was asked to deliver a presentation which I have been planning for the intergenerational project. It was in front of about 50 people that was wearing suits and yesterday I would have thought that I wouldn’t have been able to present it. After I looked through it a few times I realised it [...]
Interview skills session by Damion
I found the session really helpful after the session it has gave me the confidence to go out and apply for a job so I found this to be really helpful. For example today before the session I was feeling really down and I thought I was never going to get a job but now I feel if [...]
Stencil Referral Pack
Please feel free to download Stencil’s Referral Pack. For any enquiries please contact 0114 253 6797. (Contains 5 attachments.)
London Life
When the young people at Roundabout hostel heard about the ‘Youth Choose’ fund that Community Assemblies were funding they decided to submit a bid. The fund stated they would like to receive bids that were recreational in nature and that the idea had to be something young people asked for directly – I.e. not something [...]
Transitional Housing Team
Roundabout supports 16 and 17 year old young people making the transition from either leaving care or leaving custody. The scheme provides intesive support to young people in one bedroomed self contained furnished accommodation. For more information on this scheme please contact Ben Keegan on 0114 253 6789
hostel life- nathan atkinson
The reason for me being in roundabout is for constant arguements with parents and the seriousness of the arguements increased over time and i just had to get away, from now on i seem to get on better with my parents and now i also have more independance and more responsibility for my own lifestyle [...]
dans thoughts of life on your own in a hostel
Most people sterotype young people when they say they live in a hostel but most aren’t bad most are sound. like me i was in the army and got injured and could’nt go back with parents. the day i phoned up the roundabout i was a bit nervous about moving in but its way better [...]
my future by jordan crowe
My first day in roundabout was good and i got along with the people and all of us have a laugh. We chill on the back yard and we all have a game of black jack in the lounge. All the people at Roundabout have helped me with the problems i have had since i [...]
Star & Telegraph articles 21st July 10
Roundabout residents will be in the Star & Telegraph newspapers with Paul Scrivens on 21st July 10 – please check it out! Back in November 2009, Roundabout residents were invited to apply for funding from the community assemblies Climate Change fund (also known as the ‘green pot’). They were asked to consider ideas for projects [...]
