Active8

Active8's staff and pupils left in turmoil by closure
Evening Post (Bristol UK); 6/18/2009; 522 words; ...youngsters has ceased trading. The boss of Active8, James Fortune, has sent out redundancy...40 teenagers who had been placed with Active8, many as an alternative to being excluded...Organisations who are owed money by Active8, such as its payroll company and those...

Campaigners fight for Bristol community centre
Evening Post (Bristol UK); 6/11/2009; 594 words; ...scores of signatures of residents backing the idea. But the lease was given to Active8 Education Limited in December. Months on, the shop still lies empty, with Active8 in financial difficulties and facing administration. MAG are now hoping for...

Troy's mum tells of death crash shock
Evening Post (Bristol UK); 6/9/2009; 1225 words; ...tattoos done based on his drawings to remember him." Troy had been a student at Withywood Community School before moving to Active8 Education in Easton. Kim started a course at Ashley Down College two years ago and starts a psychology degree at UWE in September...

Elderly artists put on a show.
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 5/28/2009; 397 words; ...from Caldwell Grange, Donnithorne Avenue, and members of the Active8 group. They worked together to produce framed photographic...portraits in a vibrant collage. Rachel Flowers, who works with Active8, said: "We wanted to enable people to experience a range...

Hundreds bid final farewell to Troy
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK); 5/22/2009; 448 words; ...respected and loved by all who had the privilege of knowing him." Following readings by Troy's aunties, Martin Benjamin, of Active8 education said he had been privileged to witness Troy's "transition from boy to man". Former Withywood Community School...