Projects already funded

Here's some of the projects that you've conceived, designed and made happen in the South East:

Youths Knowing Your Sexual Health

Links Youth in Medway are being funded to run a series of sexual health workshops.The group plan to use the first workshop to choose what subjects will be covered, how, by whom and where they will take place.The workshops will then be delivered by a sexual health tutor, ensuring they use accessible buildings. The group will also create small clips to be uploaded to YouTube.

HAIL HIV

The Youth Development Service, Surrey are being funded to develop an HIV case that will include fact cards, quizzes and visual resources (condoms, red ribbons, alcohol) to enable young people to learn about HIV and its relate issues. The group will visit local schools and youth centres and feedback on what young people have learnt from the case.

Sexucation

Sussex 6th form college, Brighton are being funded to run a peer education drop-in, providing a space where students can get advice about sexual health from other young people and signposting to other local sexual health services when needed. The group will market the drop-in by using posters and leaflets and ensure an appropiate service by having a drop-in code of conduct & Condom Card registration.

HYPE Drama Group - World AIDS day project

Brook in Milton Keynes are being funded to develop a street performance on HIV infection and safer sex, to be performed in the town centre on a Saturday night. The group will make a recording of the performance, as well as engage with the crowd, who will be encouraged to get involved in the production.

The S Word

Wycombe District Council, High Wycombe are being funded to develop a workshop for parents and young people to attend, to improve how each group communicates about sex & relationships. One of the planned outcomes is to produce a set of five communication goals/information cards from the workshop.

Sexaholics v Sexaphobes

Xtrax Young Peoples Centre, Hastings are being funded to run a series of parties, to provide a fun and comfortable atmosphere to talk about sex and relationships. The group will use quizzes to aid discusion and will also carry out street surveys to further their learning.

Peer Education Training Day

Brook in Milton Keynes are being funded to deliver a one-day training course for young parents, as an introductory course to SRE for peer educators. From the introductory course, those that are interested can go on to a six-week course for peer educators, before facilitating SRE to their peers.

Young Womens Sexual Health Project

Young women of Surrey Youth Development Service were funded to organise and plan a weekend residential for other young women, for which they undertook ten weeks of SRE training. Once trained, they worked with the residential participants to clarify which aspects of SRE they wanted to focused on for the residential and for the young women to deliver to their peers.

Make It Work

The Next Generation Centre group were funded to run two SRE sessions, focusing on the belief that everyone has rights, and responsibilities, in relationships to keep safe from abuse and harm. From the two sessions the group produced initial lyrics and content for the music tracks which they produced and uploaded to Myspace, enabling an unlimited number of young people to reflect on this issue. The group performed the tracks for other young people at local events.

Sexual Health Peer Mentoring

A group from YWCA, Kent were funded to run six sessions that trained the young women to be able to act as Sexual Health Peer Mentors; to help develop a young person centred service in their local area. The young women can now offer their peers sexual health information in a comfortable environment, as well as being confident to support workers who deliver sexual health to young people as peer co-facilitators. The number of opportunities to do this and reach more young people will increase month on month.

ABC HIV Peer Education Project

A group from the British Red Cross, Hampshire, Surrey & Isle of Wight were funded to build on previous work by developing a one-hour session looking at HIV/AIDS, that could be delivered to youth groups and schools by peer educators and they have already delivered it in local schools. A resource pack has been produced with session plans and methods on HIV/AIDS, to reach even more young people. The pack will be used to cascade the training to other British Red Cross peer education teams
within the region.

Peer to Peer

From Ashford North Youth Centre, Kent, this group were funded to make a DVD about young peoples’ views and experiences about sexual relationships and sexual health, with the young people, having participated in a workshop first to develop the theme and script, before filming and editing the DVD. Young people felt that the filming process and getting the emotions out of other young people were some of the best bits. The DVD will be circulated to local schools and youth groups.

ABC HIV Peer Education Project

The British Red Cross, Hampshire, Surrey & Isle of Wight group were funded to plan and participate in a one-day training course on HIV/AIDS, delivered by a facilitator experienced in HIV issues related to children and young people, to build their confidence as peer educators and increase their skills. The peer educators plan to share this expertise with over 500 other young
people in the region.

Butterfly Project

A group from Aldworth Science College, Basingstoke were funded to plan and participate in four workshops led by local sexual health professionals, to look at different aspects of sexual health, including alcohol & drugs, different kinds of love, sex and
relationships. More than 20 young people took part in the workshops, with nearly all saying they had leant something new and giving the workshops an average rating of seven out of ten.

Barton Girls Club - SRE Project

Young women of Barton Girls Club, Oxford, were funded to plan and participate in four workshops to reflect on different aspects of sexual health, led by a local sexual health specialist. The invited specialists delivered workshops focussing on sex, safer sex & teenage pregnancy to 15 young women, all of whom said that the sessions were helpful and some said that the knowledge gained would be shared with other friends.