eBay My World: joe.alftupper( 586)

by joe.alftupper(586)

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I have been involved for the past 12 years working with disaffected and underpriveleged young people in North London. I educate , mentor and counsel mainly people who have been discarded by society and schools. I am not funded by any source.

I love music and have found selling gig tickets provides a small source of income that enables me to continue my work. My track record and the results I have acheived over the years is well documented and I have references from all sources including schools, parents, young people, police, social services and criminal justice. I am not affiliated or funded from any source and my work is mainly voluntary although I do rarely work with families who can afford to pay for my services.Until recently I was running a school where in 4 years I acheived fantastic results, unfortunately we were run by a so called Charitable organisation that were misappropriating our funding and I had no option but to walk away from a wonderful small school that I had worked so hard to initiate and establish. I am now going it alone and am involved in many small projects engaging and working with the young people who are in danger of becoming disengaged from school and society in general.

Music, most of the tickets I buy are for artists I love and while selling I've met some great people and seen some fantastic gigs. E Bay has been one of the things that has kept me going through a very difficult 9 Months since my school was obliterated at the end of last year- December 2006.

Music mad, I have run music clubs in Manchester and London, Dingwalls 88- 91, Ministry Of Sound 91- 92 and Home nightclub 93-95. Shortly following this I decided to begin my work with young people and have been shocked at the extent of their exclusion and alienation which is becoming much more severe, hence the problems we are experiencing at present with gangs, drugs and exclusion. Please E Mail me at joe.alftupper@googlemail.com for more info. Cheers and thanks for listening.

English

Young people, music, football, making CD's for people and spreading my music.

Sopranos, The Wire, Futurama, don't really have much time for the telly. I really dislike soaps.

So many young people are being excluded and alienated without thought of where these people will go once excluded. It's as though many authorities are passing the buck. I can catagorically state that once a young person falls away from school or is shown the door that unless they can access a pupil referral unit they are thrown into a situation where they are open to exploitation by unscrupulous so called charities who will secure funding for them and provide very little in terms of education or facilities that these young people so desperately need. Schools are happy to offload these young people and forget about them, they normally end up in great difficulty- crime, drugs, alienation are just some of the consequences. Many have experienced difficult childhoods and come from families who are at the bottom end of the economic strata. Many are Fatherless and addiction and mental health issues very often are present in the family history.