Vanessa and I had arranged it so that there was NO WAY Tony could be late!  We got the bus to Shoreditch (Vanessa showed us her bendy bus-riding skills), and arrived on time.
 
We were at the YCN, 72 Rivington Street.  It is a fantastic space - the YCN has recently moved there and the interior has been designed by architect Tomas Klassnik.  His main aim was flexibility, so that the ground floor could be a library, events space and shop, simply by moving the furniture around.  We were all very impressed!
 
We were shown how YCN helps illustrators to work for companies, mostly to do with advertising.  They showed us various projects they have done in the past, and some of the websites they have designed.  Then it was our turn - we were given a brief: to design some kind of 'visual communication' to promote the use of parks.  We had very little time but managed to get some ideas down on paper.

 
Then Tomas Klassnik gaves us a tour of the building, pointing out specific features and problems he'd encountered in creating the office space upstairs and the ground floor.  I was fascinated by how seemingly successful the office space was, and combined with the lovely people we met, I really liked the YCN as an organisation - we all joined their library!

 
Having so enjoyed our time at the YCN, we were almost late for our workshop at PricewaterhouseCoopers!  The aim of the afternoon was to get their advice on how we should stage our event in September.  At the beginning I had no idea about what our event would be like, and at the end we had made a plan.  I can't detail any of it here though, it has to be a surprise!  We wrote down our aims for the event and then focused on ways of achieving them, and on techniques for public speaking.  It was such a helpful workshop and combined with the shortbread biscuits it was a very enjoyable afternoon!