VOTE LGF AND HELP PREVENT SCHOOL BULLYING!
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HOW YOU ARE TAKING ACTION AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA
We’re really excited that the Enough is Enough! Campaigns Safer School Packs have been chosen as a NatWest Community Force project...now all we need is for you to vote for us!
With just the press of a few buttons you could help us win enough votes – to provide 300 Safer Schools Packs. The packs help schools challenge homophobic bullying and support young, lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Two thirds of young lesbian, gay and bisexual people report being bullied and we want this to change! You can help make that change by voting for our Safer Schools Packs. You can find out more and vote for us by visiting:
http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/3277
Voting is open now and closes on Sunday 23rd October. So what are you waiting for?
Log on and make your vote count!
The NatWest Community Force initiative provides financial assistance to local projects and charities, but also empowers communities to get involved with causes close to their hearts. As well as voting for a project you can choose to raise awareness of it and sign up to be a volunteer.
All young people – regardless of sexual orientation – have the right to learn and achieve in a safe and welcoming environment.
We need as many votes as possible and will be publicising the vote throughout October, so look out for web, twitter and facebook updates.
If you’d also like to send a Safer Schools Pack to a school of your choice, you can donate to the campaign at
Lee Wicks from Friends and Supporters of Furness LGBT Community in Barrow in Furness got in touch with Enough is Enough! to highlight why our Safer Schools Packs and other anti-homophobia projects are so important in supporting lesbian, gay and bisexual youth. Lee feels that young LGBT people in Cumbria and other rural areas are "isolated” and are vulnerable to homophobia.
"We’ve had two cases this year where young gay people or those perceived to be have taken their own lives. One, a teenage girl, had been consistently intimidated; she and her friends had been shot at with a BB gun in Barrow town centre, they were afraid to put a light on in their own flat.”
A 20 year old man then took his own life. These suicides happened within 10 weeks of each other. Lee feels that education and getting into schools is the key to challenging homophobia
Vote to make schools safer
http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/3277
There are lots of other Cumbria based projects to vote for at the above NatWest Community Force website.