Goals: To provide and improve young people's sex and relationships education
Funding: The project receives funding from Surrey County Council
Three years ago, young members of the peer education team at Frimley Green Youth Centre in Surrey were unhappy about the standard of sex education taught in local schools. Most of the team, all Year 11 students, and their friends at school thought that the level of advice provided was "pants".
When they told Nick Jolly, neighbourhood youth development worker at the club, he said they could either see it as someone else's problem or change it for the young people who would follow them. So they decided to create their own workshops to educate people of their age.
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