Brent Centre for Young People

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Kathy Paul

Kathy Paul

My Story

I am a GP who has worked in Brent for almost 20 years. It's an interesting and rewarding place to work but for many young people it can be a challenging place to grow up in.  Mental health services are over stretched and underfunded and are not able to offer support to a lot of the adolescents and young adults who need it.  The Brent Centre for Young People (BCFYP) offers a vital lifeline to teens and beyond who need a safe place to work through their current difficulties and past traumas.  As a GP it is wonderful to be able to refer young people into this service and to know that the psychological therapy offered continues beyond the age of 18 unlike so many other children's services.

  The path from child to adulthood is so much harder now than it was when I was young and I see people struggling with it and I know how helpless those around them can feel.  BCFYP offers help to parents so that they can better nurture their children and try to keep them safe. They offer service's to the Irish Traveller Community and now also in Westminster and the Highlands of Scotland so please don't feel that if you don't live in Brent it's not worth supporting what they do.  They are also involved in research projects that mean lessons learned can be used to help adolescents far beyond the Borough of Brent.

It has been a lifelong ambition of mine to run the London Marathon and after a receiving treatment for a life changing illness in 2019 I realised I should get on with living life to the full rather than putting things off until tomorrow. I did the 10k race for life in April 2023 and then the Ealing half marathon (see picture above) in September and now I'm ready to face this next challenge. I feel hugely privileged to have been given the opportunity to achieve this goal by BCFYP and hope to raise as much money as I can for them. 

I will be sponsoring myself monthly as I pass each milestone in my training plan and to everyone out there who helps me reach my goal of raising £2000 thank you so very much. It will be money well spent.

The London Marathon has become an annual, inspiring and colourful fixture in the world’s sporting calendar since the inaugural race on 29 March 1981: a celebration of fun, fundraising and fancy dress.

Over the years more than a million people have completed the 26.2-mile course – which runs from Blackheath to The Mall, with a spectacular finish in front of Buckingham Palace, showcasing the very best that the capital city has to offer.

What’s more, these participants have raised over a billion pounds for charity and there have been countless amazing tales of human achievement throughout the event’s history – living up to its aim of helping participants ‘to have fun, and provide some happiness and sense of achievement in a troubled world’.

Brent Centre for Young People

Raising for:

Brent Centre for Young People
131%

Funded

  • Target
    £2,250
  • Raised so far
    £2,952
  • Number of donors
    72

My Story

I am a GP who has worked in Brent for almost 20 years. It's an interesting and rewarding place to work but for many young people it can be a challenging place to grow up in.  Mental health services are over stretched and underfunded and are not able to offer support to a lot of the adolescents and young adults who need it.  The Brent Centre for Young People (BCFYP) offers a vital lifeline to teens and beyond who need a safe place to work through their current difficulties and past traumas.  As a GP it is wonderful to be able to refer young people into this service and to know that the psychological therapy offered continues beyond the age of 18 unlike so many other children's services.

  The path from child to adulthood is so much harder now than it was when I was young and I see people struggling with it and I know how helpless those around them can feel.  BCFYP offers help to parents so that they can better nurture their children and try to keep them safe. They offer service's to the Irish Traveller Community and now also in Westminster and the Highlands of Scotland so please don't feel that if you don't live in Brent it's not worth supporting what they do.  They are also involved in research projects that mean lessons learned can be used to help adolescents far beyond the Borough of Brent.

It has been a lifelong ambition of mine to run the London Marathon and after a receiving treatment for a life changing illness in 2019 I realised I should get on with living life to the full rather than putting things off until tomorrow. I did the 10k race for life in April 2023 and then the Ealing half marathon (see picture above) in September and now I'm ready to face this next challenge. I feel hugely privileged to have been given the opportunity to achieve this goal by BCFYP and hope to raise as much money as I can for them. 

I will be sponsoring myself monthly as I pass each milestone in my training plan and to everyone out there who helps me reach my goal of raising £2000 thank you so very much. It will be money well spent.

The London Marathon has become an annual, inspiring and colourful fixture in the world’s sporting calendar since the inaugural race on 29 March 1981: a celebration of fun, fundraising and fancy dress.

Over the years more than a million people have completed the 26.2-mile course – which runs from Blackheath to The Mall, with a spectacular finish in front of Buckingham Palace, showcasing the very best that the capital city has to offer.

What’s more, these participants have raised over a billion pounds for charity and there have been countless amazing tales of human achievement throughout the event’s history – living up to its aim of helping participants ‘to have fun, and provide some happiness and sense of achievement in a troubled world’.