by Louise Kelly, Stonewall
In January 2013 Stonewall launched our latest Youth Volunteering Programme. This scheme gives fifty young people the skills and support they need to campaign against homophobia and homophobic bullying in their local schools and communities.
Over the next six months the Youth Volunteers will drive their own campaigns; helping Stonewall to reach thousands of teachers and students across the country with our powerful message to stop homophobia. We know that when young people are placed at the forefront of their campaign they are capable of making a huge impact on their peers. Youth Volunteer’s from previous years have been brave and innovative with their campaigns, and we can’t wait to see what this year’s group will achieve!
Stonewall’s Youth Volunteers are based across the country. Many identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, whilst others are motivated to get involved because they have gay friends or family members. Each Youth Volunteer receives on-going mentoring support from a specially selected and trained Youth Leader.
transgender people experiencing mental health problems. 
'LGBT Children, Young People and Families Day' took place on Tuesday February 5th organised by Young People's Voice - a campaigns action group at Allsorts Youth Project. It was the first major event of its kind to celebrate LGBT youth identity and community, with ‘Togetherness’ being the theme of the day.
Impact is the difference you make. By focusing on your impact, you can make more of a difference through your work. This means planning what impact you want to have and how best to achieve it, collecting information about your impact, assessing what impact you’re having, communicating this information and learning from it. We call this cycle of activities impact practice. This includes, but is significantly bigger than, the tasks of measuring, monitoring or evaluating impact.
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The European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) is now working on a short video to promote the launch of the results of the European LGBT Survey conducted last year. The Survey results will be launched on 17 May 2013, to coincide with the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
