Latest News
- The Platform Cafe’s Cost of Living Programme Winter 2024
- Say No to the Hinton Road Development
- Social Prescribing Day with Thriving Fiveways at the Akerman Centre
- Maude and Hazel’s Craft Workshops, Tuesdays at Carnegie Library
- Thriving Fiveways Call-Out for Community Event Ideas
- LJ Neighbourhood Forum Wednesday 28 February 2024 at 7pm at The Platform Cafe
- Co-living planning application for Hinton Road has arrived
- LJAG Away Day 28th January 2024
- Cost of Living Programme at The Platform Cafe
- A Lift for Loughborough Junction Station
Youth engagement
Youth engagement is an important aspect of LJAG’s work and we work on a range of different projects.
In July 2012 LJAG volunteer, Angela Akinyemi one of our most dedicate volunteers who sadly died in October 2013, organised a Youth Forum at the Karibu Centre in Gresham Road. The aim was to introduce local young people – many of whom have dropped out of school and are not in education or training – to a range of opportunities which are available to them, even those with no academic qualifications. Providers included:
Film-maker JaJa Soze showed his film, Lessons Learnt, followed by a question and answer session.