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Here are just some of the things we got up to last year…
Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Volunteering Award
This year Brook was one of 20 charities across the UK recognised for a unique one-off addition to the annual Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, created in honour of Her Late Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
In August 2023 the Brook Participation team organised an overnight Participation Event which was offered to the 16-19 National Participation Forum members. Our summary report provides some highlights including what happened at the event and what the young people liked about the event.
Forum members across our three National Forums were involved with:
A huge thank you to all of the forum members who continue to support Brook’s work!
Change is possible when young people come together and are passionateBrook Forum Member
Change is possible when young people come together and are passionate
This year’s Annual Consultation was focused on engaging neurodivergent and neurodiverse young people aged 16-25 years across England, to find out their views about the best ways young people would choose to use a Brook clinical service.
There were some great insights from the project- “Give people all the information they need and not assume that they know what to do or where to go”
We co-produced a series of animations about how young people can support friends in unhealthy relationships, both on and offline with young people from Wales.
The four animations explore how to deal with online pressures, as well as how to speak to friends in unhealthy relationships. They were created with support from Your Best Friend, and form part of their #FriendsCanTell campaign.
The animations were viewed by over 111,600 people, and were seen a total of 487,333 times.
Due to lower numbers of young people accessing local sexual health services since the COVID pandemic, the Brook Manchester team explored young peoples’ current attitudes towards contraception through surveys and focus groups.
User-research to inform the development of guidance to support teaching about sexual harassment within the RSHE curriculum. We consulted with 124 teachers and 57 young people using mixed-methods, and a survey completed by 616 teaching staff across England. It was a fantastic opportunity to hear from young people and teachers about how they can be supported to best learn and teach about sensitive topics.
Brook ran a national consultation to hear from boysand young men about access to online sexual health services.
Want to know more?
If you’re interested in getting involved with Participation at Brook, take a look at our vacancies.
If you want to work with us or find out more about our participation work, contact the participation team.