Founder Profile

 

Darren Way

Direct Contact – 07841 111903

 
 
 
 

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Profile
 
Darren Way is one of the most experienced and qualified Street Intervention Workers in the field of youth work, community restoration, and neighbourhood regeneration. He was raised on one of the UK’s most socially deprived council estates in the east London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Using hard earned lessons from his own upbringing, Darren drew upon many years of navigating and negotiating environments and peer pressures associated with educational and career drop-out, postcode territorialism, group/gang violence, criminality, drugs, and associated behaviours leading to harm, poverty, neighbourhood dysfunction and welfare benefits dependency.

Darren entered the controversial field of Street Intervention in 1995, and literally took to the streets as a ‘one man’ street gang determined not to give up on those ‘sub-communities’ that many ‘one chance programme’ organisations couldn’t reach and give up on. This area of work is not easy. He is leading in one of the most controversial and often dangerous fields of community development, where he has a hard-earned reputation for being one of the UK’s leading authorities.

Darren’s approach has taken him around the world,including Australia, Holland, New York’s Bronx, North Philadelphia, Washington, Boston;winning awards nationally and internationally in the course of his travels.

Street Intervention is not for the faint hearted nor those ‘quick fixers’ who think they can simply cut and paste his model. Changing the way you and your team work takes time and can be disorientating, but Darren walks you through step by step as you re-think your approach and shift to a deeper impacting way of engaging change work through street work.

Darren works in many roles teaching what it really takes for practitioners striving to help 21st century young communities who are trapped in such environments.