Two thousand kids. This is what it looked like.

Repainting a Bronx letter box on service dayCommunity service A party game across the classroom tablesFamily events The youth band plays under the ALANY bannerStreet festivals A mentor and her mentee at the programme centreOne-on-one mentoring A mentor and mentee painting under the elevated lineCommunity service Guests at an evening receptionAround ALANY A prize won on the group outingFamily events Volunteers working the outreach tableStreet festivals Three mentees together at the talent showTalent shows Two mentees before the evening sessionOne-on-one mentoring Fresh paint, and the sign that goes with itCommunity service Lining up across the gym for warm-upsSport & fitness At the summer barbecueFamily events The finished letter boxCommunity service The team in ALANY shirts at the street fairStreet festivals A mentor with her arm around her menteeOne-on-one mentoring Paint can in hand on the cornerCommunity service Families at the bake-sale tableFamily events Face paint and programme shirts at the fairStreet festivals At the ALANY office, under the mission statementAround ALANY Laughing halfway through the jobCommunity service A mentee and his mentor outside the centreOne-on-one mentoring The queue at the bake saleFamily events A mentor and mentee on the closed streetStreet festivals An adult volunteer works alongside the menteesCommunity service A young performer takes the microphoneTalent shows A mentor and her mentee in the gymOne-on-one mentoring Reaching round the box to get the far sideCommunity service Always Motivated. Always Positive.Family events The BOOM tents at the summer street fairStreet festivals Service day on a busy shopping streetCommunity service A match that has lasted the whole yearOne-on-one mentoring The hall filled for the family dinnerFamily events The coach leads a stretchSport & fitness Beside the Bronx One-on-One Mentoring doorAround ALANY Horns and reeds — the youth band at the fairStreet festivals Work carries on as the ambulance goes byCommunity service Families eating togetherFamily events The wet-paint notice goes upCommunity service Beadwork at the after-school tableOne-on-one mentoring The crowd along the barrierStreet festivals Two mentees singing at the talent showTalent shows Two volunteers on a quiet cornerCommunity service The classroom before the holiday partyFamily events A sponsor's board at the outreach tableStreet festivals Mentees and their mentor after a sessionOne-on-one mentoring Three generations on the same letter boxCommunity service Guests at the office openingAround ALANY Guests arriving at the holiday partyFamily events Gloves, brushes and bin-liner smocksCommunity service A stall of hats and crafts at the festivalStreet festivals A mentor with her mentees at the tablesOne-on-one mentoring Painting out the tagsCommunity service The dancing startsFamily events A whole-gym fitness drillSport & fitness The photo-print van at the festivalStreet festivals Finishing the last sideCommunity service Two mentors at the reading tableOne-on-one mentoring The host hands over the microphoneTalent shows A line forms across the roomFamily events Conversation at the receptionAround ALANY A neighbour watching the workCommunity service A vendor's canopy on the closed streetStreet festivals Working through a worksheet togetherOne-on-one mentoring The whole room on its feetFamily events A mentor and mentee on service dayCommunity service Jewellery and dreamcatchersStreet festivals Working on the front of the boxCommunity service Mentors and mentees dancing in a rowFamily events Pairs at work across the classroomOne-on-one mentoring Sweets and toys along the kerbStreet festivals Done — and marked wetCommunity service Listening at the receptionAround ALANY The dance in full swingFamily events A duet closes the talent showTalent shows A mentee turns round from his deskOne-on-one mentoring Pointing out the warning signCommunity service The Mozzarepas standStreet festivals A coach with two mentees courtsideSport & fitness Laughing through the next numberFamily events The joke at the end of the shiftCommunity service One of the youngest in the roomOne-on-one mentoring Sweet corn and kebabsStreet festivals Donation boxes stacked at the centreCommunity service Everybody down for the next moveFamily events Two supporters in conversationAround ALANY Wheeling the load through the hallCommunity service The session, one pair to a deskOne-on-one mentoring Ice cream beside the inflatable courtStreet festivals Low enough for the limboFamily events A box handed over at the doorCommunity service A solo performance, mentor standing byTalent shows Full Court Press, set up in the roadStreet festivals A mentee and her mentorOne-on-one mentoring A mother and daughter carry one outCommunity service Dancing between the desksFamily events Passing a box on through the trophy roomCommunity service A break in the shade of the bouncy castleStreet festivals Arm in arm at the end of the hourOne-on-one mentoring A mentee dancing with his mentorFamily events A dribbling drill on the gym floorSport & fitness Under the ALANY signAround ALANY Loading the vanCommunity service The block behind the inflatablesStreet festivals The line danceFamily events Mentees moving boxes out to the streetCommunity service A mentee and her mentor by the whiteboardOne-on-one mentoring Waiting in the wings for their turnTalent shows Checking the route before the delivery runCommunity service A volunteer takes fiveStreet festivals Leading the floorFamily events The same pair, one frame laterOne-on-one mentoring The van packed with boxes and waterCommunity service The room at the openingAround ALANY The BOOM information tableStreet festivals Santa hats and a line danceFamily events Carrying a box away from the vanCommunity service A mentor and his mentee at the classroom doorOne-on-one mentoring Families working their way down the stallsStreet festivals The hand truck stacked highCommunity service A face for the cameraFamily events Mat work with medicine ballsSport & fitness Water going out through the doorwayCommunity service By the calendar wall after the sessionOne-on-one mentoring A full house for the BOOM talent showTalent shows The length of the street on festival dayStreet festivals The group photo at the end of the partyFamily events Looking over the before-and-after boardsAround ALANY The last of the load beside the vanCommunity service A craft workshop across the covered tablesOne-on-one mentoring The hat stall doing brisk tradeStreet festivals And the second, sillier oneFamily events Clearing up at the end of service dayCommunity service