making Scotland the best place for
LGBTQ+young people to FLOURISH AND THRIVE
making Scotland
the best place for
LGBTQ+ young people
to FLOURISH
AND THRIVE
We are Scotland’s national charity for LGBTQ+ young people, aged 13-25. We support young people in all aspects of their lives through the provision of amazing youth work, and we support them to use their voice to create change in equality and human rights.
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Pridonia: The Chronicles of the Forest
Oh no, it isn’t
Oh yes, it is
These were the cries from the audience on Monday 16th December, the night we premiered our one night only, online pantomime – Pridonia: The Chronicles of the Forest.
Pridonia was not only written by one of our incredibly talented young people but they also directed and starred in the show alongside 2 other young people who attend our youth groups and 2 members of the digital youth work team.
It was an incredible evening of booing the baddy and cheering the heroes.
Alan Massie
- Scotland Wide
Our Stirling youth group took part in a session on the lead up to the 16 days of Activism.
The session discussed gendered based violence and the importance of hearing LGBTQ+ voices within the discussions around providing support services and campaigns.
The Stirling young people then created their own campaign poster to promote how to get help in a dangerous situation.
If you ever need support go to your youth workers or turn to other trusted adults.
Lou
- Stirling
We have just begun our Financial Empowerment fund work with our young people in the Forth Valley with a session focusing on Budgeting and the impact of having disability on your finances.
This session included how to budget, how much they need to survive monthly and then how little a budget the average disability benefit is if you don’t have the knowledge to apply for other funds.
“I learned how grateful i am to be in my situation. I learned how bad a lot of people have it.”
Lou
- Falkirk
On the lead up to Halloween our Stirling youth group spent some time creating their own Scooby Doo villains! They were tasked with designing the way their villain would look, how they would commit their various spooky crimes, how they would hide their crimes (their true identity as everyone know in Scooby Doo its always someone the Gang has met), and finally how the gag would take them down.
We have very talented young people both in their ability to tell stories and to draw them!
- Triangle
Young people from the GLOW group when on a trip to The Enchanted Forest as part of our GLOWing Oot and Aboot Project. Everyone had a great time and one young person summed up their experience saying ‘I really enjoyed the projections on the water, they were really cool and quite amazing to look at. If we hadn’t gone as a group I wouldn’t have gone as I wouldn’t have been able to afford it and had no one to go with.’
GLOW
- Pitlochry
We hosted a pre-Halloween crafting and movie night at our Vada Youth Group in Edinburgh. The movie the young people had previously chosen was Hocus Pocus. I had brought some baby pumpkins along to the group and thought it would be fun to get our young people to decorate their pumpkins using a range of pens, stickers, glue, ribbons.
We had a great night and the film was a big hit
Bryan
- Edinburgh
Involved have been learning all about red squirrels the last few months: we’ve made squirrel feeders, had a pride picnic with a squirrel search, and for our final session, we made stop motion animations about what we’ve learned. With the help of a few plushie animal friends and some natural set dressing out at the Haining, we made a video about a squirrel finding some food and another about a family of squirrels making a nest while also protecting themselves from predators.
Taylor
- Scottish Borders
Team (Un)Seen, (Un)Heard had a wonderful couple of days at Wigtown Book Festival, running a workshop at the first Young People’s Delegate Day and hosting a drop-in session in the historic County Buildings. As well as overseeing a lot of fabulous badge making, they were able to tell people about their archive, gather some submissions for it, and have some really important and insightful conversations across the generations about the experiences of young LGBTQ+ people in Scotland.
(Un)Seen, (Un)Heard
- Wigtown
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