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Investing in relationships to help young people thrive

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What a year for relationships. Never have we been more aware of their importance nor the strain they have been put under.
Fastn is sponsoring the Youth Relationships Award with Children & Young People Now. Picture: FRCA
Fastn is sponsoring the Youth Relationships Award with Children & Young People Now. Picture: FRCA

Families have turned homes into workplaces and classrooms, friends held onto each other through Zoom rather than hugs, children missed crowded playgrounds, and young people were denied so many rites of passage usually taken for granted. And, of course, families were left grieving at the loss of a loved one.

It’s the best of relationships that have seen us through to this point – and we must build on that fact in our determination to create communities that are better at caring and sharing.

Relationships matter to young people. 79 per cent of 16-25-year-olds polled by Fastn in September 2019 stated that being in lasting and fulfilling relationships is at least as important to them as work ambitions. Yet, almost 15 per cent felt they lacked role models for these relationships.

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