Transcript
AKKAS MIAH:
Here’s Andrew. He’s late.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
As usual.
AKKAS MIAH:
As usual for anywhere. Hello Andrew. But anyway, it blew up and then the whole.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
Anyone injured?
AKKAS MIAH:
No one was injured anyway. Hello Andrew.
ANDREW LAKE:
Hello.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
Happy Eid.
ANDREW LAKE:
Yeah, same to you. Did you have a good ‘un?
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
We did indeed.
ANDREW LAKE:
Right, I brought all the consent forms for the Eid trip.
AKKAS MIAH:
It’s the Eid trip next week, yeah.
ANDREW LAKE:
All right, ten pin bowling laser quest is what they asked for. Well, let’s go for it then. Shall we? We’ll get you on that training course eventually, when they run more of it, because every course they’ve run has been full to the brim.
AKKAS MIAH:
Oh, have you asked Sheila about any home learning.
ANDREW LAKE:
No. I see her on Thursday morning. Hello.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
Hello.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
ANDREW LAKE:
How are you? Are you all right? Good.
AKKAS MIAH:
Oh, Shams, you need to fill in the form, basically.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
AKKAS MIAH:
We’re on the streets, and we’re going to dish out the consent forms for the Eid celebration, Eid celebration will be next week. And then the week after that, we’re going to be on the streets giving out the fourth anniversary of The Factory. And then we’re going to do a showcase in Mansfield Lodge. Basically, we’re going to show a PowerPoint® presentation of all the pictures since we started, all the way ‘til now. So it’s all the pictures, and we’re going to have a meal and that. And on the fourteenth, we’re going to have a movie night down there.
SPEAKER 1:
Oh yeah, I want to go to that one, a movie night.
AKKAS MIAH:
Here you go.
ANDREW LAKE:
You should sign the back of them.
KAWSAR:
Oh shit, yeah, forgot about that.
ANDREW LAKE:
Sign the back.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
ANDREW LAKE:
No, we’re Vox Pop. Do you know what happened?
KAWSAR:
What happened?
ANDREW LAKE:
We’ve got about 100,000 pounds to build the extension.
KAWSAR:
Oh, to build the extension? He gave us some things, but he never told us what, gave him the piece of paper saying.
ANDREW LAKE:
Yeah. Well, the government minister came out last Friday to a meeting at the Moira Centre and she’s pulled the money, so there’s a 100,000 pound extension, which will be built on.
KAWSAR:
A 100,000 pound. So what happened to the other areas?
ANDREW LAKE:
No, we can’t get planning permission for them. They’re too expensive, or they’d need lots more money. It’s not feasible.
KAWSAR:
Yeah but, 100,000 pound is good enough for us.
ANDREW LAKE:
I think it’s pretty good.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
ANDREW LAKE:
What’s wrong with your job?
ZIAUR:
Not very happy with it. I want this job like you, that’s chilling isn’t it.
ANDREW LAKE:
Why are you not happy with it?
ZIAUR:
No, I am happy, but I prefer a different job. I’m going to go back to school next year, something different. I don’t want to work in a factory all my life.
ANDREW LAKE:
No, so why did you leave school so early, then?
ZIAUR:
Yeah, I know. It’s all my friends, mates and that.
ANDREW LAKE:
Peer pressure.
ZIAUR:
Yeah, I know.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
You do know you have to apply for six universities, not one?
ZIAUR:
I know, I know. That’s why I’m worried, I don’t know which one to go to.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
Yeah. Because I think Burleigh what they did with us was because I wanted to do chemistry, while I was doing my A level, they offered us a position, just to go to a uni they called it a taster course, just to follow people around who are actually doing the course, to get to actually sit in their lectures. It’s for a whole day, and you get to see a taste of that course.
ANDREW LAKE:
What about the forms, the applications?
AMIN:
I’m going.
ANDREW LAKE:
OK, right. Are you coming on the Eid trip?
AMIN:
I don’t know. Most likely.
ANDREW LAKE:
That’s clear. See you later. But you know, what about the writing of the application forms?
SHAMS:
No good.
ANDREW LAKE:
OK, well we can work on that. There’s certain ways to write them, isn’t there?
SHAMS:
Yeah.
ANDREW LAKE:
And a lot of forms are very similar. If we go down to Tescos, get a form or something, and practise on it, we’ll be all right. We can do that.
AKKAS MIAH:
So right.
ANDREW LAKE:
We’re off now.
AKKAS MIAH:
We’re off. See you guys later. See you next week, guys.
ANDREW LAKE:
See you next week if you’re on the bowling.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
ANDREW LAKE:
Are you coming on the Eid trip?
SPEAKER 2:
Yeah.
ANDREW LAKE:
Good. See you next week then.
SPEAKER 2:
Actually I’ll see you on Friday.
ANDREW LAKE:
Remember the old factory? It’s very different now, isn’t it?
AKKAS MIAH:
Very. There’s houses or flats in here now and a massive car park.
ANDREW LAKE:
All the jobs gone.
ANDREW LAKE:
What’s the matter? No tunes today?
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
AKKAS MIAH:
How are you guys?
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
Right, it’s the Eid celebration at laser quest and bowling. Are you interested, Alam?
ALAM:
I am actually.
FARUK:
Laser quest and bowling. Can you think of anything else?
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
What can you think of?
FARUK:
You all come up with the same thing all the time.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
What can you think of, Faruk? We always ask you, but you give us the same thing.
MUSLEH:
Go on, then. I want to see, what’s going on?
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
Eid celebration.
MUSLEH:
Yeah, man, put me down.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
Laser quest, bowling. Food, food. There’s food.
MUSLEH:
Yeah, put me down.
ANDREW LAKE:
Did you sort all that rent problems out? Did you top anybody off for them to pay all your bills?
PAUL:
No. I’ve paid them all.
ANDREW LAKE:
It’s good, apart from the rent. That’s sorted now?
PAUL:
Yeah, it is now.
ANDREW LAKE:
Did you do that, or did she go down there?
PAUL:
No, I did that and she did half.
ANDREW LAKE:
Did you do it the way I told you?
PAUL:
No, I worked.
ANDREW LAKE:
On the Friday to pay the rent?
PAUL:
No, a couple days a week.
MUSLEH:
I’m fully qualified, but I don’t know if I’m going to put my skills into use or not, you know what I’m saying?
AKKAS MIAH: But there’s a food and hygiene course as well.
MUSLEH: Yeah, I’m going to take that. The place I work at is like, you know I work with you as well on Fridays, and at the Shree Ram. I mean, we’re only like, the kids there, about up to 13, 14. We work with up to 25-year-olds, but it’s not always, you know what I’m saying? The detached youth work one, I don’t know, because I’ve only really done any detached youth work yet, so this is detached youth work, isn’t it?
[JAHANGIR RAPS]
ANDREW LAKE:
You want to do Mela, then?
JAHANGIR:
I’ll give it a go, yeah. Why not?
ANDREW LAKE:
You think you’ll be good?
JAHANGIR:
It’s nothing like scary, is it? It’s normal thing isn’t it.
ANDREW LAKE:
I don’t know. There’s 2000 or 3000 people there.
JAHANGIR:
So? That’ll give me more confidence about my life. If this lot can do it, I want to do it was well. I ain’t gonna back up or nothing, do you know what I mean?
ANDREW LAKE:
I’ll get the entry form.
JAHANGIR:
Yeah, nice one mate, cheers for that.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
They’re not born to be, or they’re not born to do anything.
SPEAKER 3:
They decide to be gay.
ALAM:
How can people be born gay?
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
No one said they were born gay.
ALAM:
You just said they discover that they’re gay.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
What it is, as people grow up, they go into relationships, and they explore, they try different things, and then eventually, a lot of people, they.
MUSLEH:
So do you do think it’s natural, do you think it’s right?
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
It’s right for the people who want to be gay, yeah.
MUSLEH:
I’m trying to say, is it natural? Gays are gay because of society, of media, fashion trends, that’s what I think. That’s what society is all about.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
That’s nature, nurture. That does have an effect on people.
MUSLEH:
Yeah, it has 100 per cent effect.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
It’s not 100 per cent. You’re religious, you’re against it.
MUSLEH:
No, in religion, in Islam, it doesn’t say to be against gays. It says you should respect them.
ANDREW LAKE:
See you later, then.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
See you later.
ANDREW LAKE:
Thanks for the rap. It’ll be after Christmas.
ANDREW LAKE:
That was challenging tonight.
AKKAS MIAH:
Very challenging. Describe what you are hoping to achieve in this particular session.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
To promote Eid celebration.
ANDREW LAKE:
Did we not actually plan the informal discussions? We left space for them. You can do an awful lot of activities, and then you never have any discussions, so that’s quite important. OK, one of the things on top of the form is Adulthood and Independence, and what’s really good about that session is they were learning to talk about a really difficult issue for them, which is quite complex. Now, they couldn’t do that at home, so if we add that in that bit at the bottom there. Future issues.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
First out.
AKKAS MIAH:
First out. Future issues in there.
ANDREW LAKE:
Because I know their youth worker, and he would be up for that, because it’s part of his job. All right, then?
AKKAS MIAH:
That’s about it, yeah.
ANDREW LAKE:
Signed it?
AKKAS MIAH:
That’s yours.
ANDREW LAKE:
See you later then.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
See you later.
AKKAS MIAH:
See you later.
ANDREW LAKE:
Do you want to get that light first?
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
See you later.
AKKAS MIAH:
See you week. 6.50 for the Eid trip?
ANDREW LAKE:
Yes.
KASEM CHOUDHURY:
See you then.