THERE is no question that over the past 12 months the world stopped, and for many people this meant their livelihoods had been taken away. Youths have arguably been some of the most affected by the pandemic and it’s continuous lockdowns, with this being the prime time of their lives […]
A student-led charity is tackling poor sex education in schools. Sexpression:UK delivers lessons on sex and relationships, from consent to contraception. According to a 2017 report by Brook, a sexual health charity, 47 per cent of young people believe traditional lessons don’t cover what they need to know about sex. […]
Balance, the North East Alcohol Office, is calling for more to be done to protect young people from the harms of alcohol as new figures released today this week reveal an estimated 16,500 young people in the region are drinking every week. The 2016 ‘Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among […]
A Newcastle organisation is looking to raise funds in order to deliver period education to North East schools. For this project, the organisation, Verbal Remedy, want to educate school children in the region on menstruation, period shame and stigma as well as make them aware of how issues like homelessness […]
Cheryl and the Prince’s Trust are launching a £2M fundraising campaign to invest in more young people through various support. The singer released a statement on Twitter on Thursday 16 February about future plans of Cheryl’s Trust and the Prince’s Trust to open a support centre for disadvantaged young people in Newcastle. It […]
Google has announced the opening of a pop-up Digital Garage at the City Library in Newcastle where it will deliver free digital skills training. The pop-up, which opens today (April 22), will employ experts to provide one-to-one mentoring and digital masterclasses five days a week. The Digital Garage in Newcastle is being […]
A mental health campaigner has spoken out about his experience of antidepressants, following the release of a new study by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The study found that the number of children in the UK being prescribed antidepressants has increased by more than 50 per between 2005 and 2012. Danny Bowman, a […]
A North East mental health campaigner is setting up his own foundation. Danny Bowman, from Alnwick in Northumberland, has set up the foundation with his parents and his sister. The family have experience with mental health. Danny’s parents have been mental health professionals, while his sister, currently works in the […]
Young people with Type 1 diabetes in the North East have shown their support for new diabetes findings. A team of researchers from the University of Exeter Medical School, the University of Oslo and the network of Pancreatic Organ Donors (nPOD) found the progression of the disease is radically different in those diagnosed as teenagers […]