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Recording ‘My Generation’ in Cornwall

Thanks to the amazing kindness of legendary ‘Who’ guitarist, Pete Townshend, Saltash based Livewire Youth Music will be offering local young musicians the chance to use our recording studio, free, and to learn hands-on how to use recording studio equipment. We are delighted to announce that Cornwall Music Education Hub will be financially supporting the […]

Discover why Rockstars Love Saltash ‘Livewire’

A state-of-the-art recording studio for the young people of Devon and Cornwall, championed by rock royalty including Pete Townshend of ‘The Who’ and the late Lemmy Kilmister of ‘Motorhead’, will open its doors to the public on Saturday 3 March. Based at Saltash Waterside, Livewire Youth Music incorporates traditional youth work, a youth club and […]

Mental health worker to be based at the foot of the Tamar Bridge – Plymouth Herald, Katie Timms. March 1st 2018

A specialist mental health professional is being brought in following a series of tragic deaths at the Tamar Bridge. Video interview with Andy Rance here. “The bridge is famous for a lot of things – Brunel, wonderful engineering – but unfortunately it’s also famous for being that place that some people have chosen to end […]

HEART SOUTH WEST Surprises Livewire Youth Project With £80,000 From Global’s Make Some Noise

Saltash, Cornwall. February 13, 2018: Today Heart South West Breakfast show presenters Matt and Victoria surprised Livewire Youth Project with a cheque for £80,000 raised by Global’s Make Some Noise. The charity was hoping for a grant of almost £38,000 but thanks to the generosity of listeners across Global’s radio brands, Global’s Make Some […]

Livewire Launches New Mental Health Service For Young People

Saltash, Cornwall. June 9, 2018 Livewire Youth Project’s new mental health service for young people – ‘Heart n’ Soul’, is now up and running. With generous grant funding of £80,000 from Global’s ‘Make Some Noise’, the Saltash Waterside based charity is providing an on-site Mental Health Worker for two years, with the intention of making […]

Love Saltash – Nov 2018. Another big side of Livewire

Don’t you just love it when a popular local magazine is so supportive of what we do? Thank you Karen Pilkington and ‘Love Saltash’!

Anxiety Is a Dirty Ugly Liar!

Article by Andy Rance. First published in Love Saltash – December 2018. Anxiety is that quiet voice that tells you ‘you can’t’ when you can – it tells you you’re ugly, that no one really likes you, that you’re worthless, that you’re unlikeable! Like most liars, once they’ve been found out they usually disappear, so if your […]

Christmas Came Early…

Christmas came early… …for a lucky few of our young people this weekend. They met the band ‘Enter Shikari’, when they played a gig at Plymouth University on Saturday 8th December – a massive thank you to the band and their management. It wouldn’t be true to say that Livewire can introduce our young members […]