Projects already funded

In the East of England you've made some great projects happen. Here's a few of them:

Self Respect; Know Yourself

A series of Peer led SRE sessions aimed at increasing knowledge of peer groups, delivered in schools.

Zimbabwe Youth Project

A Sex and Relationships weekend conference aimed at empowering groups of young people who have migrated to the UK from Africa to take responsibility for their sexual health and relationships. The conference allowed these groups of young people to explore issues impacting on their ability to form positive relationships taking into account the barriers they face as young people dealing with changes in their environments and communities.

Gateway Relationships Day

A one day conference to enable young people with Learning Difficulties to explore sex and relationships and develop skills to use in negotiating their own healthy relationships. The conference used art and drama to facilitate learning.

Outreach Youth

A Street dance project to raise awareness of different relationships that exist in communities and highlight how everyone has the right to enjoy their relationships without fear of harm or bullying.

Free to Choose

Group of 6th form students received SRE training to deliver to younger students promoting the right to choose and be safe in relationships; focussing on peer pressure, contraception’s and STI’s.

North Norfolk Youth Voice

Peer led workshops focussing on teenage pregnancy and the media in relation to the impact on the perception of young people. Workshops are then to be taken to local youth groups.

INDUSTREETS

Dance project to raise awareness of the impact of drugs, alcohol and violence in relation to Sex and Relationships. The dance was filmed and made into a DVD to be made available to other youth projects in the area.

Take it from me

The project developed their peer led information service providing workshops in local schools and pupil exclusion units on sexual health and the realities of teenage pregnancy. Produced own range of information materials, period diaries and all you need for safe sex bags. The project also ran a series of sexual health awareness stalls in Great Yarmouth providing information and signposting for young people.

Sex and Relationships Q and A

Four young women design a series of workshops to deliver in house to their peers on matters surrounding safe sexual health. Sessions included contraception; myths and truths, condom demos, where to go for sexual health checks and testing and recourses for further information.

Deliverance of SRE

Students developed and delivered ‘much needed’ SRE to peers. Covering Sexually transmitted diseases; how to prevent transmitting and what to do, where to go for help and how to practice safe sex. Sessions also covered relationships and changes in male and female bodies.

LGBT Youth Group needs assessment

Two young women developed and delivered a large number of questionnaires to identify the need for an LGBT youth group in the region; they then used the evidence to justify the need and an LGBT youth group has now started up in the region.

Good Girl Gone Bad

Year 9 pupils wrote, produced and performed a play about the consequences of unprotected sex. Throughout the play they had freeze frames allowing for information on STIs to be shown and narrated. The play was supported by a SRE session before hand and the provision of a questionnaire used pre and post play along with monitoring form to evidence knowledge learnt by beneficiaries.