Tahir’s youth mission

Peterborough youth worker Tahir Masood’s journey didn’t start auspiciously. But the only way was up and the UNISON member has been rewarded with a British Empire Medal for services to youth work.
It was 1980. “Fairly new” in the UK from Pakistan, he had left school without any qualifications. “I lacked confidence and my self-esteem was low,” he explains. He was struggling to find work.
But then he came across Louis Nassim, a community education tutor, who sugg