Meet the FYT team

Alastair Jones

Alastair is the Chief Executive Officer of FYT. He joined the team in 2012 as team leader and has over 20 years youth work experience. He is passionate about giving a voice to marginalised young people and helping young people at risk achieve their full potential. Originally from Brighton, he now lives in Stretford, Manchester.

Chris Parker

Chris joined FYT in 2011 as an apprentice working alongside Leanne in the FYT office. Chris is currently studying for his qualification and helps keep FYT running smoothly.

Debbie Garden

Debbie is involved in training and mentoring youth workers, helping individuals and organisations to review and develop their practice, investigating and giving expression to the experiences of young people. She is motivated by the privilege of helping others to become 'more happy and more useful', particularly through commissioning, encouraging and strengthening them.

Jeannette Hewes

Jeannette is based in Colchester and leads the Out4Good Project for FYT. O4G works with young offenders providing accommodation, support, mentoring and purposeful activities reducing their likelihood of re-offending.

John Wheatley

John is part of the national StreetSpace team, working with a specific brief to develop StreetSpace projects in areas of deprivation, to undertake research into issues affecting young people, to encourage community activism, and to take an active lead in connecting the network as a movement for change. John is project leader of a StreetSpace branch in Weston-super-mare, living in community on the Bournville Estate. John is part of the Church Mission Society's Community of Mission.

Leanne Youngson

Leanne joined FYT in September 08 as the Admin and Finance Officer. She continues to support the FYT team in their valuable and fundamental work in the Birmingham office. In her ‘other lives’ she is into community work and is involved in the rescue of a ‘forgotten park’ in South Birmingham and regularly walks through this life with forgotten people!

Matt Hall

Matt Hall is based in Easterhouse, Glasgow, Scotland; an outer-urban housing scheme where he works with young people in a family and community setting. Current FYT role is to support the renewal of our work in Scotland. Matt is also involved in research and training with youth workers. Australian by birth he has lived in four separate countries enabling an appreciation of different cultures. He is passionate about evangelism; discipleship; prayer; and sport and how these are lived out in frontier mission.

Nigel Pimlott

Nigel is a National Youth Work Development Advisor. In this role, Nigel undertakes research relating to issues that affect young people, facilitates extensive training and writes resources for youth workers and speaks at conferences . His work focuses upon the well-being and spiritual development of young people, seeking to understand what mission with young people means and exploring a wide range of subjects that young people wrestle with. He is also studying for a PhD in Faith-Based Youth and Community work (see http://www.centreforyouthministry.ac.uk/Research/community/).

Richard Passmore

Richard Passmore heads up StreetSpace and Church on the edge for FYT, helping local projects engage young people in the community and collapse the gap between mission and church. He is recognised as a leading voice on detached youth work and undertakes a variety of training, including detached work training for both faith based agencies and local authorities. He writes regularly for a variety of magazines, journals and books as well as for a co-operative blog called Sunday Papers which goes some way to explain the journey around church he is on.

Shez Hewes

Shez recently joined FYT after volunteering for a year. She works with the O4G project providing support and mentoring as well as facilitating practical activities for young offenders who are in the project. Shez really enjoys her job and loves helping people while at work and in her spare time. She also has a nine year old son whom she describes as 'her world'.

About us

FYT: mission with young people at risk

Frontier Youth Trust (FYT) is working with young people at risk towards justice, equality and community; we are a Christian network dedicated to helping young people and communities experience life in all its it fullness. We work directly with young people at risk, resource youth workers through training and publications, and give a voice to those on the margins. We do all this so that young people on the margins can feel and experience God.

CEO's corner

Supporting The People With The Dreams

 
An influential Bishop and Cricketer part of FYT's founding story, David Sheppard, once said of FYT, "we must support the people with the dreams". It is an enduring call to youth work.’
 
Recently FYT has been thinking about ways to support the dreamers. Those who are dreaming of new ways to engage young people at the edge through StreetSpace; those dreaming of ways to help the church make a difference to unemployed young people; and dreaming of a way to support young people as they seek to reduce their offending among so many other dreams.
 
 
Alastair Jones (CEO Frontier Youth Trust)