Facilitated 12 social group sessions in South Devon
Hosted 9 family-friendly activity days in Totnes, South Devon
Facilitated 22 youth group sessions in South Devon
Facilitated 11 sexual health drop-in sessions in Totnes, South Devon
Facilitated 11 action group meetings in Totnes, South Devon
Facilitated 2 disco fundraisers in Totnes, South Devon
Facilitated a Jumble Sale to raise funds for Proud2Be and Totnes Homeless Shelter
Hosted a Rainbow Flag Raising Ceremony to launch the fifth Totnes Pride. The ceremony included a performance from Newton Community Ensemble and was followed by the Totnes LGBTQ+ History Tour
Hosted the fifth Totnes Pride with the largest street procession, day event and after party yet.
Facilitated the second Proud2Be Volunteer Residential at Sandwell Barns at Eden Rise which included the delivery of Safeguarding Children and Young People Level 1 Training & Gender Identity Awareness Training to regular Proud2Be volunteers
Received support in principle from the County Council’s Highways and Traffic Orders Committee for our proposal to install Europe’s first permanent rainbow crossing in Totnes
Delivered 7 mentoring sessions to 1 young person in South Devon
Developed and delivered Anti-HBT Bullying teacher training sessions to 10 school’s in Devon, as part of the National Anti-HBT Bullying Alliance
Delivered LGBT+ Awareness workshops for 4 PSHE days at schools in South Devon
Delivered 1 Q&A Session for students at a school in East Devon
Delivered 1 LGBT+ Hate Crime workshop to young people at a youth group in rural Devon
Delivered 2 LGBT+ Awareness workshops to the charity sector
Delivered 2 Totnes Pride Volunteer Training Sessions in Totnes, South Devon
Delivered 1 Gender Identity Workshop to youth workers at Space*
Co-founder Maya was one of the keynote speakers at Torquay Boys’ Grammar School Wellbeing Event
Celebrated and promoted our work at 4 local Pride, LGBTQ+ &/or Wellbeing events
Recorded a bitesize video for LGBT Consortium on ‘involving the wider community’
2 youth group members attended the “Youth Work Works” Conference (accompanied by a youth worker) and helped to facilitate a “Hate Crime- What Is It?” workshop to youth workers
6 youth group members took part in a “mystery shopping” activity and met with counsellors from a youth charity and gave feedback on the welcome, approach and advice given
3 youth group members helped to run a Proud2Be stall at an LGBT+ Play Day in Torbay, Devon
Proud2Be youth group members redefined the Terms We Use
11 youth group members helped to run a Proud2Be stall at Exeter Pride
4 youth group members helped to run a Proud2Be stall at Plymouth Pride
1 youth group member attended the ‘Keeping Young Totnes Safe’ meeting hosted by Caring Town (accompanied by a youth worker)
Received funding from People’s Health Trust enabling Proud2Be to continue running all of it’s current community services in South Devon for the next two years
Extended Proud2Be’s craft days from 5 sessions a year to one session a month
Received funding from Awards4All and Small Grant Fund (SGF) enabling Proud2Be to pilot a fortnightly sexual health drop-in & a counselling & mentoring service for LGBTQIA+ young people
Proud2Be was awarded £400 from the ‘Boo Boost 2017’ Fund
Co-founder Max was offered a place on the School for Social Entrepreneurs Cornwall Lloyds Bank Trade-up Programme.
For those new here, welcome; here’s something I wrote fairly recently about the everyday human cost of trauma, the long cold shadows of lived experiences of poverty, and how the price of potatoes doesn’t tell the whole story about the cost of survival.
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