Tired of nagging, cajoling, bribing your youngsters into doing their school work? Sandra (The Door’s very own and very lovely Family Support Worker) has some top tips to help you out: “Feel like you are on a study programme yourself,
Volunteers are key to The Door’s success, without them we wouldn’t be able to support so many young people and families every day. Mel and Ben have been volunteering with us for a combined time of 15 years. As part
Being creative is a great way to relive stress and boredom, so along with some new friends, The Door team have launched our very own Isolation Art projects. Supersize Rainbow! As part of our #ThoughtfulThursday series , Kathleen (Community Youthwork
“Hi, my name is Emilia, I’m 16, and I go to college in Stroud. I first came to The Door because I was struggling to control my emotions and kept getting angry, I felt very depressed and wanted to talk
Sandra’s Top Ten Tips for family life during lock down Click here to watch the videos 1. Keep Calm: slip into the lockdown stream and go with the flow; no use resisting it, it will only stress you out and
“Hi I’m Sharon, and this is my story. My daughter was having quite a lot of anxiety issues and finding getting to school really difficult. One of her teachers suggested she talk to the people at The Door to see
Matching a parent with a Mentor is often a longer process that you might think. Shona, The Door’s Family Support Team Leader, talks here about why that match is so important. “That first spark of hope we can give usually
A report released last week from the Education Policy Institute stated that 133,000 young people had been turned away from Mental Health Services across England in 2019. Stroud based charity, The Door, is all too aware of the situation currently
Hi I’m Alyssa, I’m in year 9 and I live in Wotton, When I found out about The Door, a lot of things were making me really anxious; my parents got divorced quite recently and I often felt like their
Since it started in 2015, ‘Door to The Future’, The Door’s bespoke mentoring and support scheme for young people leaving the care system, has become embedded into the work of Social Care across the District. Debbie, who manages the scheme,