From the Independent On Sunday:
"The Hackney Museum provides an oddly appropriate backdrop to an unusual graduation ceremony. High-achieving and rather sombre-looking figures from the Victorian heyday of this once prosperous but now deprived borough in east London gaze out benignly from the portraits on the walls. The room is filled with a lively crowd of current-day residents, divided roughly equally between five-to-11-year-olds and adults. The grown-ups present are both proud parents and volunteers who have mentored the youngsters for the past 12 months. For the kids, all in their best clothes and slightly over-excited, it is probably the first time in their lives that they have been told they are a success."
The mentoring scheme was the work of Chance UK, a big favourite with Britain's Next Prime Minister apparently. Read the rest of the article here.
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