I met Malcolm in 1998 after I landed a job managing “The Creekside Youth Action Scheme ” – the youth section of a bigish regeneration initiative in Deptford. I’d had a couple of youth work jobs before this one, but it was a big step up and had the layers of management above me not fallen apart soon after I started they would have realised just how out of my depth I was pretty quickly. As it was, as part of my “welcome to your new job” conversation where my boss informed me she was leaving in a month, she also gave me a list of people I should get to know – Malcolm was 2nd on the list. 

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