National Youth Worker of the Year Award Winners 2012

The Overall Winner of this year’s National Youth Worker of the Year Awards was New Spin Project Team from Citadel Youth Centre & Pilmeny Development Project from Edinburgh.

Please click here and visit YouthLink Scotland’s website for a full list of all the successful winners and runners up.

Remember nominations for next year’s Awards will open on 1 October 2012!

Shakti Roadshows 2012: ‘Honour Based Violence’

Shakti Women’s Aid have organised a series of road shows exploring Honour-based violence and Gender-based violence with a special focus on BME Children and Young People in different cities in Scotland.

The first road show will be held at the Auchterderran Centre in Fife on 13th June 2012

 Speakers will include:

  • Pragna Patel (Southall Black Sisters), 
  • John Fotheringham, (Lindsays Family Solicitors) who will talk about the new Forced Marriage Act
  • the FGM charity DARF on Female Genital Mutilation
  • Shakti Women’s Aid

 The event is free but booking is required: for more information & booking contact Ola on 0131 475 2399 or email info@shaktiedinburgh.co.uk