Campaigns and Events

NHS - Healthier Together

The Young Women's Outreach Project are working with the NHS to promote their new Healthier Together website and app which was developed locally and provides consistent, accurate health and well-being advice for parents/carers and young people all in one place.

We know that there is so much information available from well meaning friends and family, or on websites and social media, that it can be difficult to work out what we can trust and what we can’t. We know that it can be difficult for parents/carers and young people to decide when someone needs to see a Doctor, or if there is something we can do to look after them, our ourselves at home. We also know that it can be difficult to work out what is making someone feel poorly and looking after someone who isn’t well, or if we aren’t well ourselves, can be really stressful.

Healthier Together is an NHS resource and can be trusted. It can help you make an informed choice about where to go for healthcare advice, whether that be your GP or Walk In Centre, local pharmacy or even A&E. There is lots of up to date, reliable information for babies and children, but also so brilliant resources for teenagers to find out about issues that are relevant to them.

Visit www.nenc-healthiertogether.nhs.uk

A mobile app to reduce worry for parents and care givers of young children

Create a secure profile for each child.
Easily check the child’s symptoms and get advice on what to do.
Some surgery's offer direct service so you can inform them of the child's symptoms and they can contact you directly.
Lots of other parents have already downloaded the app and have found it extremely useful.

Healthier Together app features:

Walk through symptoms checker
Select symptoms from clear and easy to follow images
Useful red, amber, green traffic light system
Yes or no answers
Gives the best way to help your child

Where she was, to where she is now: Celebrating the Women and Girls Initiative

We were asked to be part of a new animation film produced as part of the Women and Girls Initiative (WGI) Learning and Impact Services and funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. Made by Leeds Animation Workshop, the film shares words and drawings from women and girls who are supported by the 62 organisations involved with the Initiative. Projects were funded to offer flexible, holistic support and the film illustrates the difference that specialist services for women and girls can make. It gives a moving insight into how important the Initiative has been in helping projects support women and girls to grow.

We are extremely proud to see our young women’s artwork be featured in this thought provoking and powerful piece of film.

You can view more about the film here

You can view our part of the video at 8:14 below

The Big Give Christmas Challenge

In December 2022, The Young Women's Outreach Project took part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge for the first time and we exceeded our target!

We raised £5298.75 including Gift Aid which is fantastic. Thank you to all of our supporters, new and old, who helped us achieve this goal.

Christmas Challenge Information

Through the Christmas Challenge we aim to raise £4,800 for our Empower Her project. This project will provide specialist Youth Work support to young women and young mothers who are living with single or complex issues in their lives. The YWOP is led by women, for young women, providing a safe and nurturing space with practical and emotional support to build on knowledge, skills, strengths and hopes.

We have secured £2,400 in Champion Funds and Pledges through the Women and Girls Match Fund which is a wonderful start to our first ever campaign. Our task now is to raise the remaining £2,400 in online donations so we can reach our target, and unlock the match funding.

Children In Need 2021

Our Young Parents Worker Tracy and Caitlin, a young parent we support, were invited to take part in a campaign video for Children In Need. They were invited to the Angels of the North's Longlox salon to get a glam makeover and to talk about the project.

Watch the video below

Women's Trust: Young Female and Forgotten

A group of young women were asked to take part in Young, Female and Forgotten, a research project conducted by the Women's Trust in London. The research looked in to young women's experiences of employment, training and education, and barriers young women face in relation to high powered employment.

The research had 3 parts, the first was an interview at the Young Women's Project, the second was a daily diary kept by the young women of everything they did for 7 days, and the third was participation in a Co-creation Event in London. The event was a workshop based event where young women and decision makers got together to explore what the outcome of the initial sections of the research are, and how we can move forward by looking at solutions to issues and barriers young women face.

The workshop included exploring live case studies that had been collected from the first stages of the research, enabling young women to voice their experiences and opinions to decision makers. This enabled decision makers to get an understanding of the barriers faced and to talk to young women to come up with solutions. One of our young women was tasked with reading out a quote from the research and she was over the moon to have completed it.

We thoroughly enjoyed the group work activities involved in the research and being able to talk to decision makers about their experiences. As we were in London we also managed to see some sights, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, Harry Potter, and St Pancras Station to name a few and the young women were also very excited to see Wicked at the Theatre.

London and Co-creation was an amazing experience for the young women as most had never been to London, or taken part in any form of consultation work. Since the event, all three young women have become members of the Women's Trust Advisory Committee and have taken part in similar activities.

To view Young, Female and Forgotten please click the download links in the embedded page below

Tall Ship Sailing on board De Gallant

In September 2017 we had the opportunity to go Tall Ship Sailing on board the De Gallant, a Dutch Tall Ship. Our group embarked at North Shields Fish Quay on a voyage that lasted for 4 nights visiting Blyth, Sunderland and North Shields. The waters were choppy and the ship bouncy, yet the group steered the ship, climbed rope ladders, coiled ropes, put up sails and getting in and out of the docks. Everyone helped out with cooking meals, looking after each other and had a great time making friends, watching the waves and walking along the beach.

#25 for 25

On March 27th 2017 we entered in to our 25th year as a charity and to celebrate we hosted 25 fundraising events over the year. We were incredibly lucky to be supported by so many people, local businesses, schools and organisations and as a result we were able to raise over £19,000 to support our vital work.

We would like to thank the following people for all of their support for our campaign

The Mayor and Mayoress of Gateshead (Pauline and Shona Dillon), LGA Foundation, Tesco Gateshead Trinity Square, Family Nurse Partnership, Body Rock Fitness, Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy, Five Strung Out, Members of the Plus Group, Emily Plant, Dunston Church, Newcastle WI, Waitrose Newcastle Eldon Square, Art from the Lens Gallery, The Barbour Foundation, The Crafthood, Low Moon Over High Town, Christine Allen, Beamish Museum, Science @ Life Centre, The Stand Comedy Club, Rob Ryan, Spirit Level Yoga, Kenspeckle, Matfen Hall, Alnwick Gardens, Next, PAssion for Fruit, Wendy's Beauty and Nails, Cheekimonkeys, Little Nippers, Mankind, Apollo Theatre London, and to all who donated baby items.

International Women's Day Celebrations

This year we celebrated International Women's Day with #beboldforchange selfies shared with our groups and on our Facebook page

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