Staff

Shaun Bailey is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of My Generation, set up in May 2006, He is the author of No-Man's Land, a 63 page pamphlet analysing the social crisis afflicting our inner-cities, which draws on case studies and personal experiences from Ladbroke Grove/West London. Published by the Centre for Policy Studies, excerpts were published in the Sunday Times, and Daily Mail and he has been a regular contributor to national press writing for papers such as the Sun, the Telegraph, the Mail and Standard. He has made numerous television appearances on terrestrial as well as satellite television programmes such as BBC news, Sky News, ITV news, News Night, The London Program (No Place like Home) He also been a copresenter for a BBC Radio 4 documentary called Street Solutions and made numerous radio appearances with Radio 5 Live, LBC and Radio 4. Shaun has also been a columnist for Youth Work Now as well as often appearing in articles in the Guardian and the programmes Moral Maze and The Today Programme.

Shaun grew up in the North Kensington area. He attended Oxford Gardens Primary School and then moved on to Henry Compton Secondary School. Shaun graduated in Computer Aided Technology from South Bank University and worked as a security guard in Wembley and Leicester SquareÍs Trocadero, to put himself through university.

Shaun became a dedicated gymnast with the Childs Hill Gymnastic Club which he attended for over twenty years. He won many competitions both nationally and internationally. He was also a member of the army cadet force for fourteen years.

Shaun has been a youth worker for 18 years including 6 years in the drugs field at a variety of youth clubs. One of the key influences in his life was Barran Hulme, who served as his mentor when Shaun entered the youth work field he encouraged Shaun to push his youth work beyond entertainment and develop something that young people could benefit from in the long-term.

Lynette Charles was born in Muswell Hill North London,but moved to Ladbroke grove west London aged two years. She comes from a large family and has five siblings. Lynette was educated at Hammersmith School in White City , She then trained at Westminster college and qualified as a Chef in 1987.

In February 1989 she had her first daughter, In 1991 she attended Croydon College for three years to become a Qualified social worker, qualifying in 1994. Lynette then worked for Lewisham Social services Children and families team working in all aspects of child protection and children and families work for eight years.

In 2004 Lynette attended Thames Valley University to complete a BSC (hons) Degree in Psychology and she graduated in October 2007.

Lynette started as a Volunteer at MyGeneration in October 2007 and started to work part time as our project co-ordinator in August 2008

Jill has lived and worked in the area for over 20 years. She has been a Youth Worker at the Rugby Clubs, Seventh and Third Feathers Youth Clubs, Earls Court Youth Club and has worked for the Dalgarno Youth Partnership amongst others. More recently she has managed the SHOUT Project at the Dalgarno Neighbourhood Trust, a health initiative set up with funding from the K&C PCT. The project looked at addressing the health inequalities in the area while raising awareness of living a healthier lifestyle for local residents.

Jill is a Community Development Worker for the 4minds Project, based at MyGeneration, which has been set up to work with local BME communities to raise awareness around mental health issues.

In her own words...

My name is Julie, I live in Hammersmith and have a 20 year old son. I have just completed and passed OCN Level 3 youth work course. I have been working as a voluntary youth worker with My Generation since April 2009. I help out in the regular Job Club where young people and adults drop by for help with preparing their CV's, looking for skilled training courses, job searches, benefit queries and communication skills.

Before that I was helping out in the Skills and Learning Centre at Fulham Football Club where young people from the local area come in after School to do English and Maths activities and stadium tours learning about the Football Club.

In her own words...

Having read an inspirational article by Shaun in November 2004 I wrote to him and asked if there was anything I could do to help and so I started helping him with the embryonic Job Club. Shaun was working with the Blenheim at that point and it wasn't until September 2006 that he broke away and started MyGeneration. I haven't been able to be with the charity throughout its life but was able to start on a permanent basis about a year ago.

I have four children, now grown up, and 3 grandchildren. I have qualifications in Art and History of Art and passed a course on history which I used when acting as a guide. I enjoy reading, cinema and theatre and take pleasure in visiting art galleries.