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GILLIAN THOMAS: I'm hoping Junior has got some more ideas in what we can with them if we do it.

JUNIOR NELSON: Charline could possibly look at getting some video footage we've done, especially addressing the antisocial behaviour.

CHARLINE KING: Is it young people that you know of on the estate that we're going to, or is it just going to be handed out?

GILLIAN THOMAS: Could Shaquille do the leaflet and liaise with Charline? I will speak to Takeesh, All right. So first of all, I've got Tooting Grove. So if you tell me what you know.

JUNIOR NELSON: I know through the Housing Department and Vickie, because they're forwarding all the young people's names through they have problems with. They've come up with two names at the minute, two for antisocial behaviour. I think one's possibly, ASBO, they're looking at one-day ABC. The two young people that we know that attend our provision, so we need to really...

GILLIAN THOMAS: ... So you know these two young people?

JUNIOR NELSON: Yeah.

GILLIAN THOMAS: Do they actually live on Tooting Grove?

JUNIOR NELSON: Yeah.

GILLIAN THOMAS: Do you know if they go to the Tooting Grove Youth Club?

JUNIOR NELSON: I know one them definitely does.

GILLIAN THOMAS: Go to the youth club?

JUNIOR NELSON: Yeah.

GILLIAN THOMAS: OK. So what could we do?

JUNIOR NELSON: I know holiday's just gone. We had some of them through at our place, and even though they were too old, because they wanted to record some stuff in the studio. So if Takeesh was around, we could possibly bring some music equipment, for them record some stuff.

GILLIAN THOMAS: At the club?

JUNIOR NELSON: Yeah.

GILLIAN THOMAS: So are you saying then that maybe at Easter, if I try and get ahold of the people who hire out the building, we could do a day or two that, what would you like?

JUNIOR NELSON: Definitely...

GILLIAN THOMAS: ... Because I think they would like that, because I spoke to them not long ago. We had some parents in, and then I spoke to them in the evening, and music is one of the things they want to do.

JUNIOR NELSON: Because a couple of them have got a couple of groups, so they've got their songs already done. They just wanted them mastered, so.

GILLIAN THOMAS: I mean, I wouldn't mind at all paying for something to go on down this. Do you remember the thing we did at the triangle [INAUDIBLE] about a year ago? Why don't we go for something like that, where we do about three, four days?

JUNIOR NELSON: Yeah, and we'd have to split the days...

GILLIAN THOMAS: ... And Charline, you can be in charge of that.

JUNIOR NELSON: We'll have to split the days up, because if they're recording, then that's going to wholly specifically mean that group there at that time.

GILLIAN THOMAS: That's what I'm saying. For the Easter, I don't mind just going with a small project, just the music.

JUNIOR NELSON: Yeah. That's not a problem. We could do music and video, because I know Charline's around.

GILLIAN THOMAS: OK, so music and video. Charline will be your person that's going to be working down there. What do you need from me for that?

JUNIOR NELSON: In terms of equipment, we've actually got the equipment.

GILLIAN THOMAS: You've got all the equipment?

JUNIOR NELSON: Yeah.

GILLIAN THOMAS: So equipment will come from you. Apart from Charline, do you need any other staff?

JUNIOR NELSON: Yeah, we probably need staff, because it's kind of labour intensive.

GILLIAN THOMAS: OK, how many young people do you want to work with?

JUNIOR NELSON: Specifically on the music at one time, you don't really need more than eight.

GILLIAN THOMAS: So about eight young people.

JUNIOR NELSON: But we can split the music, and they've got the football pen outside. Charline could possibly look at getting some video footage we've done, especially addressing the antisocial behaviour, or maybe do a small little video, Walk around the estate, and film the video of the estate, and that can lead into talking about acceptable behaviour.

GILLIAN THOMAS: You've got your people that's going to be doing the video, the whatever. What I would like to do is I would like to ask Takeesh if she could work.

JUNIOR NELSON: Yeah, she would be one of the workers I'd like, because she's got experience with...

GILLIAN THOMAS: I find that what happens is like during the holidays, Takeesh is not able to work. I mean, that's my, that's in the past, what's been happening. So I'll ask Takeesh if she can work. If she can't work, you've got Charline. Do you need another worker or so? What do you want?

JUNIOR NELSON: If so, we probably would need another worker, because you can have a worker specifically doing music.

GILLIAN THOMAS: OK. Who's paying for the, for your workers?

JUNIOR NELSON: Me.

GILLIAN THOMAS: OK, so you're paying for your workers, and you want two workers from me, yeah?

JUNIOR NELSON: Yeah.

GILLIAN THOMAS: So Charline, that would be you and somebody else. Maybe we could look at a male worker.

JUNIOR NELSON: Because we'll have, I'll have workers actually floating, doing other stuff, as well. What I'll also do is double-check with housing, to see if there's any more names have come through the last list that we need to catch up with.

GILLIAN THOMAS: OK. It's kind of a new territory to, to be starting down. This is the first time we are going to be, it's something on there apart from the day, so should we do this one first, and then see how it goes, evaluate that?

From that, we can kind of get an idea of the needs. If we, Charline, maybe you could use one of the questionnaires with the young people down there at that point, seeing what they would like, as well, so we have an idea what they would want. And we could do something ongoing, rather than just go down there once, do something, and come out again.

JUNIOR NELSON: Yeah. I think also trying to sort some kind of holiday... it's like a spin off from Asian vibes. There's a particular group of young Asian males that are sort of like known for getting into bits of problems in the community. We're trying to set up a men's only session for them.

GILLIAN THOMAS: There's a guy called Haruf, and Haruf works, say, on Sundays in Graveney Madrasah. Haruf also work in South London, South Thames College in Wandsworth. And Haruf works with some boys, some Asian boys, in the Tooting area that's into drugs and crime, and all kinds of things, boys of that age, 11 to 19.

And Haruf has always been looking for somebody to work with in youth work, or YIP or YOT, or somebody with these young people. That's a group that we can fund through PAYP, because these boys fall into that. So if I, I could give you Haruf's number, and you could get in touch with him. He would be a good person to get in touch with.

It was good, because what I really wanted, although I had about five agenda points, I really wanted to get something going in the Tooting Grove area. And Junior, most of the young people down there, Junior and his workers know them, because they work with them in sports. So getting Junior on board with me with that was going to be crucial in the young people attending.

So yeah, it's brilliant. It's brilliant that he's come along, and he's agreed to do this project with me, and it's not going to be just a one-off project. We're going to try and continue it as long as. But we're just going to do this first one, and evaluate it, and see what happens. So yeah, I got a result.