Voice Against Violence

Voice Against Violence want to thank our political allies for their amazing help and support throughout our journey. Last night, at the Philip Laurence Awards hosted by MSP Sandra White, we were thrilled to see Cabinet Secretary Alex Neil, Minister Dr Alastair Allan and Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People Tam Ballie.

The support provided by our political allies is invaluable and hugely instrumental in the success of our equal relationship. This allows us to target the people at the top in power and make the greatest impact!

Thank you for supporting VAV and we hope this support extends into the future and beyond!

In February, VAV met with a fabulous group of children and young people who we wanted to talk to so that we could learn what they thought about participating in the Big Bang Event. It’s really important that we evaluate what the young people thought about asking questions to the people in power as it is vital that they felt confident and empowered by the experience.

We held an exciting workshop to explore our journey with the other young experts to review the different preparation sessions we had all participated in. It was really fun and the views we gathered were invaluable!

Here is a photo of Jack busy preparing the sessions. There are some incredible ‘cut-outs’ of some of the young people we worked with in the background 🙂