Hey everyone! It’s #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and the theme this year is ‘kindness’ – so please join in with OTR as we share videos throughout the week with the hashtag #CollectiveKindness. We’d love to see your faces and hear about your experiences of kindness. In addition to that, we have another busy week of informative, useful and […]
Hi everyone, we hope you had a good Bank Holiday weekend. This week we’re presenting our most jam-packed weekly schedule yet! We’re hosting a little bit of something for everyone, including some brand new videos about experimental drawing, Ramadan and poetry. Here’s our weekly schedule of online sessions you can join with OTR: Download schedule […]
We’d like to say a big thank you to our amazing supporter, Ben Jackson, who is raising money for OTR on JustGiving over the next few days. May 10th will be the 25th anniversary of the death of Ben’s dad, David. To mark this day, Ben is planning to ride 188km on his turbo trainer […]
Written by Laura Brain, Team Leader – Participation and Engagement at OTR This blog is aimed at professionals to encourage creative thinking around participation, but hopefully it’s a useful read for anyone interested in getting involved in youth work or mental health work (or both!) At OTR, our mission statement is to ‘promote and defend […]
Hello everyone and welcome back to another OTR’s book club blog! SPOILER ALERT! Our review contains details about the storyline. This month we discussed On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. This book is written as a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. It really explores the relationship between the […]
Hello again and welcome back to the OTR Book Club blog! This month we discussed Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas. SPOILER ALERT! Our review contains details about the storyline. Catherine House is a story about a very curious student, Ines, whose rebelliousness leads her to discover a shocking secret involving an exclusive group of students […]
Hello and welcome back to another OTR Book Club blog post – a big thank you to Bryony for summarising the latest read from our Book Club. Please note that our blogs contain spoilers, so if you’re either yet to read the book and/or don’t want plot reveals, stop in your tracks! SPOILERS AHEAD! Hello […]
Hello and welcome back to another OTR Book Club blog post – a big thank you to Bryony for summarising the latest read from our Book Club. Please note that our blogs contain spoilers, so if you’re either yet to read the book and/or don’t want plot reveals, stop in your tracks! SPOILERS AHEAD! This […]
Hello and welcome back to another OTR Book Club blog post – a big thank you to Bryony for summarising the latest read from our Book Club. This month we discussed Isabel Sterling’s These Witches Don’t Burn, a young adult, fantasy, LGBTQ+ novel. The story follows a witch named Hannah, who lives in Salem! At […]
Hello everyone and welcome back to OTR’s Book Club blog! This month, Bex is kindly contributing a summary of reading Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. A pre-warning that some of our blogs contain spoilers for the books. Also worth noting that this novel deals with a really wide range of issues, so there are […]
Hello everyone and welcome back to OTR’s Book Club blog, where Bryony from the group writes up the verdict on the latest book we’ve delved into… A pre-warning that some of our blogs contain spoilers for the books Welcome back to another OTR Book Club blog! This month we looked at Douglas Adams’s classic The […]
Hello everyone and welcome back to OTR’s Book Club blog, where Bryony from the group writes up the verdict on the latest book we’ve delved into… This week was a bit of a strange one – we couldn’t get hold of a physical copy of our chosen book in time, soooo we improvised and read […]