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http://youthconnectironwood.wordpress.com We are happy to announce our new website for Ironwood. Ironwood is one of the Youth Connect social enterprises which is 100% self-sustaining, while giving back to the community....

Currently at the Picturebook Guesthouse each morning there is a special training for former Youth Connect apprentices who are preparing to apply for new jobs.  Currently we have a group...

At the beginning of January we were very lucky to have a visit from the Grace Family Foundation and friends.  Dick and Ann Grace have been running their foundation for...

Our latest intensive session has finished and our current in school session is running as usual, that means that we have some free time to work with some of our...

The already successful Stay-in-School programme is developing a new, vocational component.  Every Friday, YC staff will visit schools with a truck-load of tools and materials.  14-15 year-olds on the course...

The Puzzlebox Art Studio ran a  fundraising  drive on Indiegogo.  And we raised $4,050!  We wanted to say a big Thank You to all those who helped and contributed.  The campaign...

December saw the Puzzlebox art studio host a very successful exhibition of works by YC artists.  Although the studio had been sure to make a large number of all the...

The Intensive course has now finished.  In January, the students started their new apprenticeship placements.  YC has accepted apprenticeships at all of our social enterprises, while other apprenticeship placements include...

YC students showed off their business skills by earning nearly 2,000 baht during the last Intensive course, through a new initiative called the ’500 baht’ project.  Working in groups, the...