Phoebe's Corner

Phoebe is returning to the UK on the 22nd to start University, here she lists some of the things she has done, memories collected;

Finishing up my time here, being at my job has been fun. I’ve been helping clean where the archives keep the old documents, having to use small hoovers to get the dust off the books and then survey their condition, I’ve been cleaning the old 1800s books, I had to use a conservation hoover and get the dust off, I’ve also been helping clean “the stack” where all the documents are kept, there’s a lot of them and you have to empty one shelf at a time, wipe it and put the stuff back, it takes hours, wiping all the shelves down also which is taking hours but we do find some hidden gems which is always fun.

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time here, exploring, wildlife watching and meeting lots of new people. It’s something I will remember forever. It’s been challenging at times like some of the culture is so different compared to the UK but nothing too much. However, I am very excited to go home and eat fresh fruit and vegetables!

I will miss the penguins, I had a penguin nibble my leg once, then I got penguin fleas, I’ve been yelled at by sealions a few times, I think the coolest thing was swimming with penguins at berthas beach, they were surfing in the waves and watching us paddle, You’re not allowed to get closer than a few metres to the animals unless they come to you, the sea lions are highly memorable, the beautiful sunsets and all the travelling, I will definitely go back one day.

Since being here I’ve visited so many places around the east and west side of the islands including Saunders Island, Whale point, Sealion island, Pebble Island, Berkeley sound, Johnson’s harbour, Volunteer point, Darwin, Goose green and Stanley of course. I’ve been lucky enough to explore Chile as well and briefly stopped at Ascension Island.

When I fly back, I get to Brize Norton first and we’re staying with some friends for a few days to recover from the flight, then I’ll go to London and then back to Weymouth from there, I’m going to try and make it to the next Weymouth space meeting when I’m back

The next step then will be to move to somewhere near London, go to college and get into a Uni, and I’ll go on from there.

Thank you all for keeping up with my newsletter, this has been a wonderful experience documenting my journey, and thank you to Charity from Space for suggesting to do this and being an amazing help as always.

Bourne Free!

Space Youth Project attended Bourne Free 2025; Bournemouth's annual pride event.

As always, Space was a part of the parade as well as the festival-style event in Meyrick Park which runs throughout the weekend which includes live music, street food, fairground games and a number of stalls run by different charities and organisations. 

Despite the heat, young people attending the event said they enjoyed the day and were pleased to have the opportunity to meet other young people from outside of their group and be a part of the parade. On the stall, we were also able to raise roughly £200 selling glitter tattoos, pride merchandise and entries to our straw game! 

We are looking forward to returning next year, for Bourne Free 2026. 

Blog post is by Sacha, Supernova Chair person

Bourne Free Banners @ SYP Poole!

At Poole group the young people made banners and placards for the Bourne Free Pride Parade. The Police attend this group and got involved with the ice breaker which was live spot the difference, one officer swapped her uniform with one of the young people as a difference which everyone loved! Then the every got creative with their art skills making the banners, the officers did a fine job of theirs 😃