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Trust is a 10-week course designed for secondary school aged children to explore issues of healthy and unhealthy relationships. Taking place in youth centres and schools, the project facilitates discussion on the issues surrounding abuse, and uses drama and the creative arts to challenge tolerance of intimate violence.

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  • Arts/Culture/Heritage Arts/​Culture/​Heritage
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Sports/Recreation Sports/​Recreation
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)

    Situation

    The course begins with the participants completing anonymous questionnaires about their attitudes and feelings about relationships, followed by discussion and debate with the use of drama games and creativity. They create their own performances, working together to decide themes and methodology, with the aim of educating their peers around the issues of respect within relationships, good citizenship and positive communication skills. The long-term goal of the Trust project is to help young people question thier own attitudes and make violence totally unacceptable in all familial, romantic and friendship relations. We strive to to convince the young people that a primary factor in the perpetuation of violence towards women and children is the community held belief that it is acceptable in certain situations. In order to achieve this, we aim to be taking the project to 100 schools and informal education centres in Greater London and the home counties within 3 years. In the long-term we hope to influence the National Curriculum with this delivery of citizenship issues. In addition to Trust we also run a number of other projects, such as: The Trust Youth Inclusion project which combines an interactive forum play with workshops for young people to promote social inclusion through positive communication skills and healthy relationships; Playing Fair, a drama-based project that involves children in Primary schools and educates them about relationships based on equality and respect; and V-Day UK and V-Day Europe, based around Eve Ensler's award-winning play "The Vagina Monologues". V-Day draws upon a network of organisations and celebrities, and produces events and campaigns that raise the profile of violence against women amongst policy makers, the media and the legal profession.

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    Categories

  • Arts/Culture/Heritage Arts/​Culture/​Heritage
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Sports/Recreation Sports/​Recreation
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)