- Who it is for
- Young people, addressing VAWG and healthy-relationship education.
- Setting
- Group programmes and workshops.
- Funding stream
- VAWG strategy · prevention and education spend · whole-school approaches
What this work is
Violence against women and girls is prevented upstream, in the attitudes, norms and relationship patterns young people are still forming. Work that addresses it has to be honest, age-appropriate and credible to young people — not a lecture they tune out.
We deliver VAWG-focused and healthy-relationships education to young people, opening up power, consent, respect and accountability in ways that land. The aim is genuine change in how young people understand and treat one another, not box-ticking.
How we deliver it
Our relational, trauma-informed style carries into group work. Sessions are built to be safe enough for honesty, and led by practitioners young people take seriously. The Presence · Power · Purpose ethos — meeting young people with respect and raising their sense of standard — runs through the curriculum.
Delivery is through group programmes and workshops, designed to fit schools and community settings and to complement whole-school approaches to relationships and behaviour.
What this looks like in practice
- Healthy-relationships group workshops
- Consent, power and accountability sessions
- Whole-school and community delivery
- Practitioner-led, age-appropriate content
Commissioning and referral
This is typically funded through VAWG strategy spend, prevention and education budgets, or whole-school approaches to relationships and behaviour. We deliver as a series of workshops, as a sustained programme, or as part of a wider response a school or local authority is building.
Schools, local authorities and partnership boards commission this directly. We agree the cohort, the curriculum focus and how the work joins up with existing PSHE, safeguarding and behaviour provision, so it strengthens what is already there rather than sitting apart from it.
Every service runs through our Presence · Power · Purpose programme model. You can also see the externally recognised Making Hayes Safer case study for an example of community youth-violence work in practice.
Frequently asked questions
What age groups is this suitable for?
Content is designed to be age-appropriate and is adapted to the group and setting, from secondary-age students through to older young people in community settings.
Does this fit a whole-school approach?
Yes. The group programmes and workshops are designed to complement whole-school approaches to relationships, behaviour and safeguarding rather than sit apart from them.
Who delivers the sessions?
Practitioners young people take seriously, using a relational, trauma-informed style that makes honest conversation about power, consent and respect possible.
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