17+

Coming to you again from a train, James is coming back from 17+ weekend!

I must admit, I'm pretty tired by now, but very very happy having spent a great weekend with some great people at Hebden Hey, for the Seventeen Plus weekend.

This is the first weekend of its kind ever done in GB, the only thing like it being an 18+ weekend in 2004. A group of about 20 people got together from every branch in GB, plus some special visitors from further afield (Germans living in GB), and we had a pretty chilled out weekend of lots of interesting thinking and fun activity. With an appearance from a Wonky Donky, and a collective realisation of our facebook dependence, we talked a lot about the theme, 'the Internet' and also more widely about the media.

The idea of a 17+ was for juniors who often get very involved in running events and activities, to come away together for a weekend and relax and have some CISV fun for themselves, to motivate and encourage them. Good times were had, with especial thanks to the brilliant 'not-staff-just-people-in-a-position-of-vague-responsibility-team', Laura Green, Jess Wanless and Helen Russell!

Where now for Team NJR? Well, in 2 weeks is the GB National Council meeting in Manchester, and James and Louisa are currently preparing some things for that. Check up in two weeks to see what happened!

With much love,
James & Louisa