Effervescent

If you’ve been involved in one of our projects, thank you. Giving young people a meaningful voice is much more common than it was twenty years ago, and together we’ve played a huge part in that. So thank you for being part of Eff’s incredible journey.

Phil is one of our Creative Producers, and Billy-Bob is his mascot! Billy-bob (err, Phil) says… “When we join forces with children and young people, we create magic!” ✨

Interested in co-production? Check out the first in our new six-part series of films on The Fundamentals of Co-production at https://eff.org.uk/the-fundamentals-of-co-production1-1/, and sign up to receive the rest in your inbox. 💛

Once again, the young people who co-designed Lonely Not Alone 2022 knocked it clean out of the park! Give them a virtual high five by sharing a Message of Support at http://lonelynotalone.org

Here we are with our wonderful partners from Save the Children UK at the end of our residential devising week. Can’t believe that this was a month ago!

We were lucky enough to work with a fabulous group of young co-designers who came up with some BIG creative ideas… putting BIG smiles on our faces! 😁

Lonely Not Alone is back for the 4th year, and it's bigger and better than ever! Head to lonelynotalone.org to send a message of support into the universe and show young people that they might be lonely, but they're not alone

How we made Lonely Not Alone 2022 You might be lonely, but you're not alone.Young co-designers from Lonely Not Alone talk about their experiences of loneliness and how we made our 2022 campai...

It’s not long until the launch of Lonely Not Alone 2022. The young co-designers have been involved in every part of the process ... this was their reaction when they saw the photographs they directed and starred in recently in Devon.

We can’t wait to share this year’s campaign!

Really excited to announce that we’re working with Save the Children UK to co-produce a campaign with young people tackling issues related to not having enough money in the UK.
Share this opportunity with young people you know-

https://eff.org.uk/news/save-the-children-and-effervescent-invite-you-to-apply-to-be-in-our-co-design-team/

Do you have a family member in the forces?

We're looking for young people from serving, reservist and veteran families in Scotland to help co-design a ground-breaking creative campaign.

Do you know a young person aged 13-19 living in Scotland? They can find out how to apply here - https://eff.org.uk/news/join-our-young-co-design-team-for-forces-children-in-scotland/

It’s not just the Eff staff team that is committed to creating social change with children and young people… Cindy Vallance is one of our new Trustees; here she shares what inspires her about children and young people.

We're looking for young people from serving, reservist and veteran families in Scotland to help co-design a ground-breaking creative campaign.

If you know someone who is 13-19 years old and living in Scotland, share this so they can apply to join our co-design team - https://eff.org.uk/news/join-our-young-co-design-team-for-forces-children-in-scotland/

We only have a few spaces left to join our next project as a co-designer!
If you know a young person who is creative and might want to be a co-designer on our campaign to tackle gender-based violence, share this so they don’t miss out.

https://eff.org.uk/news/teenagency-co-design-team-apply/

We’re holding a creative residential to co-produce a campaign tackling gender-based violence.

If you know a creative young person aged 14-19 share this opportunity so they can apply to join our co-design team.

As our recent residential was such a success we’re running our upcoming project on Gender-Based Violence as a residential too. We now have space for more young people to join our Co-Design team.

Share this with young people you know
Find out more about our project here 👉 https://eff.org.uk/news/teenagency-co-design-team-apply/

We have some great news!

You may have seen we’re going to be working on co-producing a new campaign with young people to help tackle the issue gender-based violence in Plymouth. We’ve just extended our deadline to allow even more young people to get involved and join our Co-Design team.

Share this post with a young person who cares about gender-based violence and who might want to join our Co-Design team.

Applications now close Thursday 31st March.
https://eff.org.uk/news/teenagency-co-design-team-apply/

Gender-based violence is a big problem everywhere, and something that the people of Plymouth are all too familiar with.
We’re looking for young people aged 14-19 to volunteer on our Co-Design team to develop ideas and a creative campaign.
Find out more here - https://eff.org.uk/news/teenagency-co-design/

We’re looking for young women and men aged 14 - 19 to volunteer on our Co-Design team to develop ideas and create a campaign to tackle gender-based violence.
We will work together for eight days over the Easter holidays in Plymouth, find out more here - https://eff.org.uk/news/teenagency-co-design/

Keeping young people safe online can be difficult, here are some simple steps you can take.

Get more tips and advice here https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/

One of our new Trustees Cindy shares why she loves working with children and young people.

We’re thrilled to welcome our new Trustees to the Eff team

It’s Valentine's Day, so check out this throwback to our I.AM.NOT.A.ROBOT campaign.

Our adorable robots would sing and dance when given the love and care they needed. Visitors could practice their foster caring skills – reading them stories, virtually hugging them and showing their support through social media.

The campaign delivered 120% more foster carer applications than average.

Mercedes is on a mission to help provide peace of mind for young women and men across the globe.
The app she created is completely free and available from most app stores because she believes we should all be safe and have access to health care

It's Children's Mental Health Week 🧠
Check out these free toolkits of resources for primary and secondary schools, helping children and young people to grow emotionally, and grow together as a whole school community.

https://mentallyhealthyschools.org.uk/resources/growing-together-children-s-mental-health-week-2022-toolkit-of-resources/?utm_source=sim&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=cmhw22&utm_content=toolkit&mc_cid=cb9ea27603&mc_eid=5c96f2d80a

Growing together: Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 toolkit of resources : Mentally Healthy Schools Celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 and this year's theme of 'growing together' with our free toolkits of resources for primary and secondary schools.

With young people spending over 20 hours a week online, it can be hard to help them stay safe.

These resources can help if you’re worried about a young person or need some advice on how to keep them safer online.

Childsnet: https://www.childnet.com/

Thinkuknow: https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk

Parent Info: https://parentzone.org.uk/home

NSPCC: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/ #

Uk Safer Internet Centre: https://saferinternet.org.uk/guide-and-resource/parents-and-carers

“We learned a lot from each other, different skills. Now it feels like we’re like a family.” Young co-designer

We’re getting ready for our Lonely Not Alone 2022 workshops. Learning new skills from each other is just one of the things young people love about Effervescent projects.