Sayit

Great session today running the first of our LGBT+ Awareness Training sessions as part of our #CallItOut LGBT+ Domestic Abuse project.
Find out more about the project and sign up to our mailing list to find out about future training and events at: https://sayit.org.uk/callitout/

SAYiT YOUNG PEOPLE NEED YOUR HELP...
We are fundraising and planning for a 2 night residential for October 2019. This residential will allow us to interact with LGBT+ people from different age group and improve self-confidence through workshops and activities which will in turn have positive benefits on mental health. This residential will provide a safe space for young people to express themselves freely which will bring a sense of community.
We aim to raise a total of £200...0.00 to host the residential. This will cover all of the costs of activities, transport, accommodation and food for 35-40 young people.
Please see the link below to donate...
https://localgiving.org/sayitresidentialf undraiser
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We are wanting dancers, singers, groups, poets, bands or any other performers to perform at Sheffield's BAMER Pride.
Applications shut at the end of the week If you are BAMER and are interested please complete the application form. 🌈

SAYiT remember the 49 lives lost at #Pulse, Orlando 3 years ago in a vicious act of hatred
We stand in solidarity with our LGBT+ siblings worldwide campaigning for a world that is safe for all to live and love without fear of hate and violence
#WeRemember #WeWillNotLetHateWin

Last Friday, SAYiT’s LGBT+ Domestic Abuse development workers Heather and Elly called into the BBC studios for a chat with Paulette Edwards about the Call It Out project.
If you missed it you can listen again here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p078q5x v (from 14:20)

Our CEO Steve Slack sharing his personal views of events over the weekend.
Walking to work this morning I was reflecting on some of the alarming and upsetting events of the past weekend. Two lesbians brutally attacked on a bus in London. A vicar from Rotherham calling LGBT+ inclusive education ‘child abuse’ and tantamount to grooming. Another homophobic attack in Manchester. Someone on Facebook had posted on a friend’s timeline that if only LGBT+ people would ‘blend in’... and stop making a spectacle of themselves at Pride then maybe such things wouldn’t happen. Meanwhile the debate about LGBT+ inclusive education raged on in Birmingham and the anti-LGBT+ agitators were being offered the support of a local MP. As I turned to walk through an underpass I was greeted by graffiti which said ‘Caution faggots’. I felt for one moment that I had been transported back to the 1980’s during the awful period of Section 28 which forbade the discussion of homosexuality in schools – and legitimated the hatred and abuse of LGBT+ people. It may be 2019 but events over the past weekend only serve to remind us that in terms of equality we still have a long way to go. Equality is not something we can ever take for granted – just when we think we have it within our grasp, we discover it can evaporate much quicker than it took to win it. And when we point out this continued hatred and the fear and apprehension that many of us continue to live in – we are criticized for exaggerating, being victims, being ‘drama queens’…because ‘everyone loves the gays now, don’t they?’ And rainbow flags are hoist from hospitals, town halls and big corporations. Coffees are served in rainbow mugs and we have LGBT sandwiches in M and S. And I am reminded of why Pride still matters so much to me and our visibility is so important. And I am reminded of why charities such as SAYiT, which support LGBT+ young people and offer them safe spaces, are needed as much now as they have ever been. And I am reminded of how sad I am that so much has changed and yet so little has changed.
I’m not ready to blend-in yet and I wholly intend to continue to make a spectacle of myself – oh and I’ll be wearing a t-shirt saying ‘caution faggot!’.
- Steve Slack
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TODAY is the final day of #VolunteerWeek & we are 🎉CELEBRATING 🥳the hard work that our volunteers put in here at SAYiT!
We've included a couple of pictures of our volunteers - our volunteer lead BAMER Pride committee, and Jemma hard at work in the office.
We have 30 (😲) new volunteers supporting with everything from assisting in our groups, helping at events, and raising awareness in schools.
... If you'd love to join in with our amazing volunteers 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️(and receive full training of course 📕 ) please fill in our application form here - http://bit.ly/SAYiTvolapp or get in touch with any Qs 💻
We are especially looking for people who are interested in going into schools to deliver talks or facilitate groups!
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Register for the next RSE forum here:
The event focuses Teachers' Readiness for Statutory Relationships and RSE in September 2020

Thankyou to everyone who has booked a place
* Please note this round of training is now fully booked *
To keep upto date with the latest news and events from the Call It Out project and find out when new training dates are announced subscribe to our mailing list at www.sayit.org.uk/callitout

Youth Stop AIDS Day of Action, supported by Restless Development and STOPAIDS, is a youth-led movement campaigning for a world without AIDS. They aim engage those in power to ensure that governments, global institutions and corporations are committed to ending AIDS by 2030.
Register for their event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/youth-stop -aids-day-of-actio…

👀 Look out... our very own Steve Slack will be live in the studio for BBC Look North THIS EVENING!
Tune in at 18:30 to hear Steve talk on: - Young people & cuts to services (especially mental health support). - Our Noah Lomax fund and where it came from. ... - The need our young people have for support with and around their mental wellbeing.
BBC Yorkshire
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