This Christmas was heralded in to the sound of the Pineapple club back on the airwaves on BRIT FM. This is part of an ongoing project initiated by media Leading Edge manager Jon Preston. Senior citizen's from the Pineapple club teamed up with students from another ongoing Leading Edge radio project from Saint Joseph's school in Beulah Hill to give us the Family Christmas show. Saint Joseph's is an all boys catholic school and the students that have been coming into the BRIT school to work on the project are all SENCO recommendations. The senior citizens from the Pineapple project are all from the local Afro Caribbean community and they were able to team up with the St Joseph's students to pass on the skills they have picked up running previous Pineapple club shows. It is a sign of the impact of the project that not only have St Joseph's remarked on the behavioural improvement of these students but they have now embarked on a similar project of their own involving some of their local senior citizens.
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