very seldom in life do you have moments or meet people where in their absence after they've left you feel a seismic shift inside and know something has happened that has changed you.

I experienced that very moment today.

Motivational speaker Craig Pinkney volunteered his time at Staffordshire University this evening to speak to a body of students. Mesmerised by his words and gripped by his struggle we were given an educational insight into a cultre that very many of us are only aware of through the idealised tripe fed to us by the media.

Dropping a powerful stastic of 42 people whose lives have been claimed by gang violence Craig started the session with a bleak yet stark reality which many communities face daily.

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Unheard voices

Craig spoke to students about his work with disaffected youths and the active steps he has taken to improve broken communities and people living in them.

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