ABSTRACT
Kate Clements, the Youth and Community Worker responsible for the development of the Girls Work Unit in Lancashire, tells an important story. She was appointed to her full-time post just as the Girls Work Unit at the National Association of Youth Clubs was being closed down. One of her first ‘official appointments’ in her new post was to attend the demonstration which had been called in Leicester to coincide with the meeting where a decision about the Girls Work Unit was to be taken. The banners that were flying and the crowd of women and men who gathered seemed, both then and now, to mark a turning-point. For the Girls Work Unit at NAYC, it was a full stop. For the Girls Work Unit in Lancashire, the banners were heralding a beginning.
