More pictures from a fatastic week!

More litter pickers

THIS IS Charlotte Hayto and Becca Buckley from the Eyres Monsell team, hard at work picking litter, as part of the first day of social action.

This good enough for you Chris?

SO, OK, one of our wonderful leaders, Chris, follows me on Twitter (well, why wouldn't he?) and said he'd encourage the young people in his team to visit this blog if I mentioned him...

So, I hope this is enough of a mention for him! :)

This is a pic of our Chris taking a photo of himself!!!

What do you think, girls? Is Chris looking good...or does the facial hair need to go?

(I write this in jest, of course, Chris is a great bloke and, indeed, took some pcitures to put on this blog today. Ace job, my man.)

Social Action teams get down to work...

TODAY saw the start of the Social Action part of nCounter Summer week, as the three teams of young people went out to serve their communities.
I managed to visit two of them, the Eyres Monsell and Braunstone and the young people were doing fantastic work.
As you can see from the above picture that included litter picking, but also clearing gardens, surveying people on what they liked most about where they live and much, much more.
By the way the ladies in this pic are Lizzie Armstrong and Nicola Foster (brother of Matt and Pete!)
Well done girls!!

The nCounter Summer'09 Phlogcast...listen now!

HI EVERYONE, I've recorded an nCounter Summer phlogcast (no, it's not some contagious disease, it stands for phone podcast) and you can listen to it here:

http://www.ipadio.com/phlogs/MathewHulbert/

Thanks!

The Whole Team!

THIS IS the whole nCounter Summer team: young people, youth leaders, organisers.
Tomorrow they'll be going out to start their social action projects in Braunstone, Eyres Monsell and Netherhall.
They've received two days of training, preparing them for the important community work they're going to be doing.
That includes delivering fire safety leaflets, running fun days and much, much more.

Training to serve the community

MY THANKS to nCounter Project Manager Becky Gradden for these photos, which show many of the young people taking part in nCounter Summer being trained, ahead of going out into the community on Wednesday.
They've obviously had a fun time!

Hear an interview with nCounter Summer organiser Matt Brown

I PRESENT a weekly local news programme on Castle Mead Radio, the hospital radio station in Hinckley, called 'Hinckley This Week.'

As well as being heard on the hospital radio, it receives a wider audience as a podcast, available for download on i-tunes.

Each week it includes a special feature.

This week that's an interview with our own Matt Brown, head of Reality Youth Project, organisers of nCounter Summer.

You can hear it here: http://castlemeadradio.podbean.com/

Go on, give it a listen!

nCounter Summer'09 is off and running!

ONE OF the best weeks in Leicestershire's Christian calendar has begun...nCounterSummer.
It sees around 100 young people, from across the city and county, come together to show their faith in action and to promote God's Love.

The first three days (Sunday through to tomorrow)sees them receiving training and then, Wednesday to Friday they split up into three social action groups (in Braunstone, Netherhall and Eyres Monsell) helping to make a practical difference to their communities.

They'll be tidying up gardens, painting fences, running sports activities for local children to take part in, and much, much more.

I'm the Roving Reporter for the week and will be updating this blog, writing tweets (find them at: www.twitter.com/mathewhulbert), as well as phlogcasting, and writing a daily article for the Leicester Mercury newspaper, among other things.

So please do give them a read/listen throughout the week!