The Juno Project

Is there a girl or young women in your West Sussex based household aged 13-18? Can you help us to help young women, by asking her to fill in the survey below about services for girls and young women? There are 6 questions and it takes 3 minutes!!! We really want to hear from you!! https://forms.office.com/e/PpMgtkyxMv

We will be running HAF sessions this year for young women in the following locations, dates and times below! The sessions will include crafts but have a wellbeing focus and will support young women with challenges like anxiety, friendship issues and self-esteem. All sessions will run from 11am- 3pm and include lunch. Get booking!

Horsham (likely venue Park Barn)
When - The 1st/8th/15th and 20th of August

Chichester (likely venue The New Park centre)
When - 31st July, 7th, 14th and 21st August.

Bognor Regis (likely venue 9 Youth Club)
When - 31st July, 6th/13th/23rd August

Littlehampton (likely venue Southfields Jubilee Centre)
When - 2nd/9th/16th and 23rd August)

Spreading the word that there is an exciting event coming up for Make Music Day in Crawley. Make Music Day is a huge celebration of music making around the world on 21 June.

On Friday 21 June, Crawley Town Centre BID is bringing you a line up of fantastic local musicians, solo artists, duos, buskers and bands of a variety of genres, across stage settings, open spaces and indoor venues, throughout the town centre from 11am through until the evening with High Street venues given the opportunity to take the music inside after eight.

Audio Active are running a stage at Crawley Leisure Park 4-9 pm with a vast range of amazing musicians and artists performing making music across all genres!! Do go along and support!

Every week is Mental Health Awareness Week at The Juno Project!

We support young women experiencing significant challenges, most often with their mental health. Through our coaching, girls and young women will be supported to:

🙂 grow their confidence and self-esteem
⚙️ learn tools to regulate their emotions
🫂 improve their relationships
🪴grow their aspiration

Find out more about we do, and the impact we make: ➡️ https://www.thejunoproject.co.uk/our-impact

Happy IWD from all of us, to all of you.
Thank you to all the wonderful young women we have the honour of walking with and to all of our female funders and supporters! Here's to a world that invests in women. A gender equal world! Please see our website donation button if you'd like to make a contribution to our work today, or click on the Just Giving link in the post below. 🙏

The Juno Project is now a proud member of the Girls'Rights Collective, a UK wide network of organisations and professionals who work with girls and young women. I was part of a fabulous conversation yesterday in one of their 'sparks sessions' which left me feeling inspired and invigorated! What has left you feeling good this week? Please let us know - we would love to hear!

We are £49 away from our target! PLEASE give what you can! We appreciate you

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We are just £53 away from hitting our target!!!!
Please help us do that by sharing or donation.
Thank you. We appreciate you

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A HUGE thank you to a new funder for us - Masonic Charitable Foundation, who have made a generous contribution to our core funds! Thanks for believing in us!

Please follow this link to check out their work: https://mcf.org.uk/

A lovely Spotlight blog post on the wonderful Helen, who is one of our facilitators!

Spotlight on our facilitators: Helen Cowper — The Juno Project Helen joined the team in 2023 and is a coach and facilitator specialising in Emotional Intelligence. We caught up with her as she started to deliver her first programmes for the Juno Project in autumn.

We can't thank you enough for your generous donations to our REALationships project, designed to help keep young women safe from domestic abuse. We have reached a staggering 88% of our target of £449!!! Special thanks to Outstandard, London, for their generous donations and publicity. Please, please help us to hit 100%. Every penny will go directly to the administration and delivery of workshops. Please like, share or donate!

Link below:

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The Juno Project is proud to announce that we are now part of the fantastic SisterShips network, run by the amazing women's team at Lewes FC! They have done some pretty impressive work for equality in football, using football as an agent for social change. Check out the SisterShips page, for more information:
https://lewesfc.com/our-supporters/sisterships/

Thanks to the outstanding generosity of Outstandard, our corporate sponsors, we are almost at halfway with our target, but there is some way to go. PLEASE can you donate, like, or share, or maybe all 3? There is so little preventative work for young women happening around domestic abuse!!!

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Shopping online this festive period? Raise FREE donations for The Juno Project when you shop at one of 6,000+ stores online using Give as you Live Online! Give as you Live are partnered with 6,000+ stores as well as dozens of providers across insurance, energy and broadband. Because of this relationship, when you visit a retailer via Give as you Live Online and make a purchase, they give us a reward as a "thank you".
PLEASE follow the link to register! https://www.giveasyoulive.com/join/the-juno-project/1176628/0?utm_source=charitytoolkit&utm_content=223661&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=CTChristmasShoppingCampaign20

In response to rising rates of domestic abuse amongst young women, and the questions they are asking in group sessions, we are proud to announce our new one day workshop REALationships. Please see our Just Giving page for more information about the workshop and how YOU can help us reach the young women who need it. In short, you can 1) donate whatever you can afford and 2) share the campaign widely in all your networks. Thanks in advance!

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We still need your help - voting is open for Stronger Starts funding in Tesco stores! Please give us your tokens!

Cast your vote for The Juno Project - Tesco Community Grants — The Juno Project We are bidding for a cash boost from the Tesco Stronger Starts initiative. Tesco works with community charity Groundwork to run its community funding scheme, which sees grants of up to £1,500, £1,000 and £500 awarded to local community projects, with a particular focus on children and young peopl...

It's nearly October! Get your token fingers ready!

WE NEED YOU! If you shop in any of the following Tesco stores, please take the time to vote for our project to receive Stronger Starts funding - ALL the funding we raise will directly support the girls and young women who need us the most. We will be listed in the month of OCTOBER 23!

Billinghurst Express; Storrington express; Pulborough Express; Chichester Tesco Extra; East Wittering Express; South St Chichester Express; ALL Crawley Express stores and Crawley Tesco Extra.

A summary of what really works for young people in terms of social and emotional learning. Great to see research backing up our programmes - 'The report found strong and consistent support for the impact of social and emotional skills programmes implemented in the school setting.'

Social and emotional learning: Skills for life and work This overview report provides a summary of the findings from a three-part review undertaken by independent researchers. These three reports together make clear what social and emotional skills are, how very important they are, and what can be done to improve these skills in children and young people...

WE NEED YOU! If you shop in any of the following Tesco stores, please take the time to vote for our project to receive Stronger Starts funding - ALL the funding we raise will directly support the girls and young women who need us the most. We will be listed in the month of OCTOBER 23!

Billinghurst Express; Storrington express; Pulborough Express; Chichester Tesco Extra; East Wittering Express; South St Chichester Express; ALL Crawley Express stores and Crawley Tesco Extra.

Follow the link to read the fantastic interview about her work with The Juno Project from our wonderful Lead Facilitator, Ruth Gregory. In addition to being a superb facilitator, and a great lead, Ruth has quite the way with words! https://www.sussexlearningnetwork.org.uk/news/273/83/Meet-Ruth-Lead-Facilitator-for-The-Juno-Project

The summer has gone so quickly! If you, or your child, is feeling nervous about the new school year, there are some lovely hints and tips here to help you prepare: https://www.youngminds.org.uk/young-person/blog/tips-for-dealing-with-back-to-school-anxiety/

A HUGE thank you to a new funder for us - Another Way Women's Foundation, who have made a generous contribution to our project funds! Please follow this link to check out their work: https://www.anotherwaywf.org/

A HUGE thank you to the wonderful Sussex Community Foundation for our recent grant award!! They have been incredibly supportive of our work over the years, and we are beyond grateful - on behalf of all the young women and girls we support - thank you!

Here at The Juno Project, we are really conscious that exam season is underway. This can be a really stressful time both for young people and their families. Some great tips here for parents and carers from Young Minds:

Exam Time & Exam Stress | Parents Guide To Support Exams are a stressful time for any young person, if you're worried about how your child is coping read our tips and advice on how to help.

The amazing Audio Active project (https://audioactive.org.uk/) are hosting an event - poster below. Go and see some of their practitioners and up and coming young music leaders perform! Home grown talent at its best!

The Juno Project is seeking fabulous new facilitators in the Crawley/Haywards Heath and Chichester areas, to deliver our inspirational workshops. This is an ideal role for a freelance trainer, teacher or coach who would like the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives or girls and young women in West Sussex.

Follow the link for more information, or feel free to make initial contact through messenger: https://www.thejunoproject.co.uk/news/2023/1/9/join-us-as-a-facilitator Please share in your networks!

More and more young people are suffering from poor mental health. That’s why Pudsey’s removed his
bandana, to show that mental health issues are often less visible and to encourage conversations
that can help. The Juno Project is proud both to be a recipient of BBC CIN funding, and to support ’s ‘Behind the Bandana’ campaign. You can find out more about it at bbc.co.uk/pudsey

A huge, warm welcome to our 3 wonderful new facilitators Amy Sayer, Kate Avery and Rebecca Bean! All 3 bring a range of skills and talents in working with young women. We are so happy to have them working with us!

Find out more about them here, on our website:

Who we are — The Juno Project She founded The Juno Project with the purpose of helping girls to reach their potential, and wrote our flagship programme This Is Me as a result of her own life experiences; as well as having seen the need for early intervention in her work in education and enterprise.

"The programme has been incredibly positive, with participants commenting on how much they have got out of the sessions and how much they have learnt about themselves." - Tanbridge House School

It's feedback like this that makes every second worthwhile; helping to transform the lives of young girls through , and . ✊

See what THS has to say about the implementation of our programme for their year 10 female students!


🔗 https://www.tanbridge-house-sch.co.uk/News/The-Juno-Project-delivers-This-is-Me-project-for-T/

It's generous donations like this that make our work possible. With one grant at a time, we can continue to help transform the lives of young girls in need.

Our sincere gratitude goes to the Shanly Foundation for enabling us to support year 6 girls during a daunting transition from primary to high school. We will be encouraging them to build bonds in order to feel more supported, allowing them to work through any fears around transition. 🪄 ✨

We can't wait to get to work!