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September 23, 2024
Knocking Out Anxiety

What if you stopped fighting against anxiety and instead fought WITH it? One of the most common reasons young people request support from GRIT is to help them manage their anxiety. For anyone who has experienced anxiety they will know how consuming it can be, how paralysing and sometimes life sucking its presence can be. […]

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July 22, 2024
R.E.S.P.E.C.T

“Find out what it means to me” Aretha Franklin One of the great privileges of doing this work is having the opportunity to meet and learn from others doing incredible work with young people. Recently, I had the pleasure of an online meeting with Dr Deborah Jump, a Criminologist at Manchester Metropolitan University and Deputy Director […]

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May 16, 2022
The Fight You Don’t See

When we think of boxing, we think of the fight that happens within the ring. That’s put on for our own entertainment under the lights and in front of an audience. We don’t often think of the fights that happen in the background, of the boxers own personal journeys and internal battles.

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November 18, 2021
Anxiety versus Fury

I’m sticking with the boxing theme as we were treated to a second great fight in a matter of weeks between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder. For someone who is very capable of getting back up no matter how many times he is knocked down it wasn’t really a surprise to me that Fury rallied form being dropped twice to win by a sensational knock out in the eleventh round.

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October 29, 2021
Welcome to our new Blog :)

We are now halfway through a new term and Autumn is definitely upon us. The last 18 months have been anything but predictable so we are delighted that it finally feels like we are returning to something resembling normality.

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