Announcements, blog and guest blogs for Respect Yourself, the guidance site for young people to help make good decisions in life. Click the title for the full article.
We will be supporting Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2012 this week, run by Norwich-based charity beat.
The theme is around breaking the silence – how important it is to take the first step and start talking to someone if you have an eating disorder, and for people who have or have had eating disorders to speak out about their experience and the support they received.
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Respect Yourself has teamed up with Money Saving Expert to gather wisdom and experience of money-savvy supporters. Money Saving Expert – the website that aims to provide the best MoneySaving guides, tips, tools and techniques – has chosen Respect Yourself as their Campaign of the Week.
Please contact us by SMS or e-mail with what messages in 2011 have been helpful to you or a friend. All the messages are stored here on the website. Let us know if we have helped you and made a difference to something in your life!
We’re hosting a children’s Christmas party in Hethersett Village Hall for 0-8 year olds, 4:30-6:30pm on Wednesday 14th December, to raise funds to continue sending texts out. It’s £5 including a party tea, there will be activities and a DJ, so please get in touch with us if you want a place.
We recently asked for stories from the young people we support – what life experiences have they had that they want others to be able to learn from? Here’s some of the messages we received. Thanks to everyone who submitted some help, we’ll turn them into messages to send out soon!
The best kind of knowledge we can give out to people is one we’ve had experience of ourselves, or know people who have lived through the situation and come out the other side. We asked for some real stories today, real life experiences we can make into messages for others to learn from, and had some great responses. Expect to see them in future messages!
We want your stories! What have you learnt from your own life and situations that we can teach others? Contact us with the details and you may see it in a future message!
The Norwich pilot for the project ran throughout September and was a great success! We asked for feedback and got floods back! The results will be published here soon.
Today please tell us (by SMS/facebook/twitter/e-mail) what subjects you want to get messages on for the next few weeks. Also let us know which texts you found useful and which ones made a difference.
NatWest CommunityForce is an initiative which works with local communities to support the people, projects and charities making a real difference where you live. It is a platform that empowers local projects and charities to raise awareness of their work and make their plans a reality with the support of NatWest and their local community.