12/04/2026
I wasn’t planning on crying today.
(Though it doesn’t take much nowadays. A good love story, happy ending, someone being kind, being a mum has me cutting onions) 🤣😭 but this video the kids made is the reason I can’t let go of putting these clubs together for charity client FACEYOUTH Charity. It’s not a main service in Fulfil-Ment Aberdeen at all.
Out of the almost 30 clients I see weekly for hypnotherapy and coaching this is the only client I do project management for. 3 years I’ve worked in partnership with Faceyouth.
In that time FACEYOUTH and I have had hundreds of children attend the clubs. We have constantly provided safe and nurturing opportunities for them to learn about the real world around them so they can be informed and can handle the world that lies ahead for them. It’s also allowed me to develop my own little safe space and enterprise the ‘zen den’.
In the world we live in it is ESSENTIAL we give young people spaces to be safe, learn and to be themselves. So many children face poverty, bullying, exposure to adult themes, domestic violence and pressures they shouldn’t have to go through. As a child I went through many adverse experiences so I guess the work I do is for personal reasons too.
Im still getting my head round this week and the hard work that went into making it happen. And trust me so much goes into this. I spend months planning each one out, meetings on meetings with the team to coach them, make them feel encouraged and know what they are doing, make sure we are all compliant and up to date with our core training, back and forward with planners, coordinating activities with the guests that come to teach the children and my least favourite part budgeting and negotiating of prices.
As you can imagine these clubs don’t run on goodwill - how amazing would it be if they did? Maybe once upon a time.
They cost 1000’s and every penny is planned on the aim of the kids having a good time. I know because with the budget I was given this year (which was significantly less than years gone by) we have to make it work for the children even if it meant making lunch for 40 children each day until midnight to work within that budget you know I was gonna do it 🤣🤣🤣 (I won’t be defeated if you give me a task 🤣🤣🤣)
I have to do my handover and recommendations report this coming week for the board and funding partners but after watching this I don’t feel there will be much in that report now hopefully that I can think of.
‼️❤️🔥Please if you can like, share and follow this Amazing charity and my wee consultancy too. The work I do now is mainly mental health focused and therapy based but just once in a while the skills I learned being a business manager and within my first degree come in handy. ❤️🔥‼️
🌹🩷The team & volunteers - you have been nothing short of amazing this week each and everyone of you worth your weight in gold. I couldn’t do these clubs without you. Thank you for giving it your all and trusting my guidance 🩷🌹
🩷🩷Ify Anyaegbu we met 4 months before I was due to have my little boy I told you I could do this and how and I could’ve imagined it would’ve taken a big risk to agree to a heavily pregnant woman that should could run a youth club (for 50 children then) but we did it and we have never looked back despite the challenges the economic and personal climate have thrown. But I’m very grateful for your trust and to be able to take my wee big along for that ride too. Thank you darling you’re an inspiration to me and many.
I said I’ll never do another one but after this video but after this video how could I not.
