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06 September

GIRLS OUT LOUD BECOMES PARTNER IN ALWAYS #LIKEAGIRL 2017 CAMPAIGN

by: Helen in: Big Sister, Little Sisters, News Worthy, Sister Club, Sister Talk, Support Girls Out Loud, The Gossip

Hands up who likes failing. Anyone? No? Well, time to think about this differently. If we never fail we never learn and we miss out on a bucket load of resilience along the way. The alternative is to avoid risk of any kind and live a very mediocre and small life. Do we want that […]

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31 August

TIME TO JOIN THE DOTS PLEASE!

by: Helen in: Big Sister, Little Sisters, News Worthy, Role Model Relay, Sister Club, Sister Talk, Support Girls Out Loud, The Gossip, Uncategorised

BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD. Wise words but they require an incredible amount of self-awareness and self-discipline to live by. I spend my working week talking to and about the need to raise the aspirations of teenage girls in the UK. This inevitably leads to debates around self-esteem, body confidence, […]

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03 August

FUNDING NEWS

by: Helen in: Big Sister, For Fun!, News Worthy, Sister Club, Sister Talk, Support Girls Out Loud, The Gossip

Grab your tiara and challenge yourself and your girlfriends to climb Snowden on a fully guided hike to raise funds for us. This event is led by Tiara & Treks on our behalf and there are still places left for 26 August so grab your boots and head gear take a look at http://www.treksandtiaras.co.uk/girls-out-loud and […]

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26 July

EMPOWERING GIRLS TO LEARN, LEAD AND THRIVE – ARE YOU UP FOR IT?

by: Helen in: Big Sister, For Fun!, Little Sisters, News Worthy, Sister Club, Sister Talk, Support Girls Out Loud, The Gossip, Uncategorised

With positivity in mind our SHINING STARS BALL due to light up Manchester on Friday 29th September is looking fab. Big love to The Co Op for stepping up to be main sponsors and we are welcoming more awesome organisations on board as sponsors every day including Pladis Global (McVities), Kids Allowed and Enterprise Rent […]

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20 July

Rochdale Joins the Party

by: Helen in: Big Sister, News Worthy, Sister Talk, Support Girls Out Loud, The Gossip, We Salute You

Middleton Technology School in Rochdale becomes the 36th school to step up and engage Girls Out Loud. Our Big Sister programme launched in school in May following a Role Model Relay event where we introduced over 100 girls in Year 8 to 35 awesome female role models. 20 Little Sisters will now start a year-long […]

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06 July

JUMP ON THE BUS WITH HER PLEASE!

by: Helen in: News Worthy, Sister Club, Sister Talk, The Gossip

TOXIC FRIENDSHIPS Over the past 12 months I have been inundated with pleas from parents at the end of their tether as they try to support their teenage girls navigate through the complex minefield that is friendship. The most reoccurring questions are….. Why are girls so mean? What’s with these yoyo friends? How can they […]

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30 June

Girls don’t need one role model, they need a tribe

by: Helen in: Big Sister, News Worthy, Sister Club, Sister Talk, Support Girls Out Loud, The Gossip, Uncategorised

It seems like every week there’s a new study out telling us how difficult it is to be a teenage girl today. Just in the past year, we’ve heard how teenage girls in the UK are among the most miserable in the world, that their mental wellbeing is worsening and that some girls as young […]

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28 June

Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves!

by: Helen in: Big Sister, Little Sisters, News Worthy, Sister Talk, The Gossip, We Salute You

We were delighted to see an article in the Oldham Chronicle about a few of our ex Little Sisters, Ellie and Dione picking up the mantle to continue our work in their school, after our contract expired. Girls at Oldham Oasis Academy decided to establish a student-led mentoring scheme where Year 10 girls support year […]

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22 June

Endings Are As Important As Beginnings

by: Helen in: Sister Talk, The Gossip

One of our Big Sisters at Blackburn Central High School, Police Officer Louise Dunn shares her experience and personal journey of being a Big Sister to Alix… “It’s so satisfying to know that just being there for a teenage girl can have such an impact on her life. Just to notice small changes in her […]

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02 February

Our Founder Jane Kenyon gets personal on her recent blog

by: Helen in: News Worthy, Sister Talk, The Gossip, Uncategorised

YES I AM FAT AND?…….. First let me wish you all a rocking 2017 and start my year with a pretty personal blog. I never discuss my body image as I do not see it’s relevance however…. For the past week I have been in the midst of a media storm after I dared to […]

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