Esteem

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We are delighted to share that, despite the challenges of Covid-19, we reached 2,248 students in Southwark between January and December 2021. We significantly exceeded our target of 1,500 as we were able to continue delivering our sessions online via live video link during the school lockdown in the Spring term.

With the help of our amazing donors, we have been able to scale up our online offer to youth workers during the pandemic to enable them to reach their young people with quality materials that would improve their relational and emotional wellbeing.

Amazing news - The Garfield Weston Foundation has awarded us £20,000 for core costs of the Esteem programme!

Established over 60 years ago in 1958, the Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded, grant-making charity which supports causes across the UK and, in the most recent financial year, gave over £99million. Since it was established, it has exceeded donations of more than £1billion, of which well over half has been given in the past ten years.

We are thrilled to welcome two new Schools Workers to the team, who bring a wealth of experience with them as well as sharing our passion for relationships and sex education.

Michelle will be working with us for 2 days a week, delivering RSE in London schools and developing our new racial identity project.

"Hi, my name is Michelle and I am really happy to be part of the team. I am a South East London girl and, before joining acet UK, have worked alongside children and young people of all ages from many backgrounds as a teacher, nurse, and schools worker.

In spite of COVID, this academic year has been a significant year of training expansion for us. By rapidly adapting to the lockdowns and offering our accredited training online (with agreement from Open College Network West Midlands), we have been able to deliver relationships and sex education (RSE) training to an increased number of people and are delighted that we have been able to smash our targets!

Our accredited course covers a range of topics which are split across the 6 sessions as below.

When we run the course in person, the topics are covered over 4 longer sessions, so the order of the course will differ slightly.

Session 1:

• An introduction to relationships and sex education (RSE) and related legislation
• Child development and puberty
• Body image and the influences and pressures on young people from the media

Session 2:

The AIM Qualifications Level 4 Accreditation for “Teaching relationships and sex education” will equip learners with the attitude, knowledge, and skills to provide high-quality relationships and sex education (RSE) in creative, relevant, and effective ways. During this accreditation, you will find out more about different topics in the field and different educational approaches with a view to providing excellent RSE.

Objectives of the accreditation 

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

What a fortnight! The Champions for Children appeal has come to a close and together we have raised £10,000 in 14 days! 

We'd like to extend a HUGE thank you to everyone who gave during the two weeks and also to our wonderful pledgers and the amazing Childhood Trust who provided the funding which doubled all the donations made during the appeal.