Power2 appears on BBC1 for Red Nose Day 2019

On March 15th 2019 a Teens and Toddlers group from Hackney were featured on BBC1 as part of Red Nose Day.

The young people from Hackney New School, all aged between 13 and 15, shared their experiences alongside our Programme Lead, Dawn and the teachers from De Beauvoir Primary School, where they had been mentoring children for 16 weeks.

Click on the video above to see how they got on.

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“The programme has made me more confident to be myself. I’m very much a brand-new person and I’ve just had a fun time.”

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In school, I’ve been a lot more confident in myself. If it weren’t for Teens and Toddlers I wouldn’t have come up here [on stage] now.”

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