BRAVO for Airplay Youth Project
The Airplay Youth Project operating
in Carterton has recently added
two RAF Brize Norton BRAVO
awards to its name. The first of
which was awarded to the team for
its outstanding contribution to the
community. The second comes in the
form of a Youth Worker of the Year
Award for Hayley Phillips.
“I’ve always done youth work,” Hayley
says. “My husband is in the RAF and
he was posted to Brize. We decided
that the children and I would make
the move with him. We wanted our
children to have Dad around as much
as they did Mum. When I moved I was
looking to do something along the
same lines as what I had done before.”
She began as an Airplay sessional
worker in Carterton and has been
Station Youth Worker for the last
15 months.
“I didn’t even know I’d been
nominated,” she admits while
discussing her award with the Crier.
“I just received a phone call to say I’d
won. I was majorly surprised. I’m still in
shock now to be honest.”
How important is the youth club to
Carterton? “It’s essential because it’s
somewhere young people can call
their own,” she says. “All the sessions
are planned around their needs.
So they’re continually asked and
consulted on what we run and what
they’d like to see in the programme. In
the last year we’ve been more focused
on what our young people want, and
our numbers have really picked up.”
The club, running a junior session
on Mondays (8-11 yr olds), an
intermediate one on Wednesdays
(11-13 yr olds) and a senior one on
Thursdays (14+), is host to a lot of arts
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