Programmes
Our Core Programmes
1:1 Support (YPIDVA)
Support & Advocacy
Targeted domestic and relationship abuse, sexual violence and exploitation advocacy support for girls and young women aged between 11-25 living or studying in Barnet and surrounding boroughs.
Trained YPIDVAs and Youth Workers provide support including safety planning, healthy relationships, MARAC or refuge referrals, advocacy and representation, post-separation emotional support and access to other creative and practical opportunities.
We are currently having technical difficulties to the form, so please call 078911 36851 with any referrals.
Wellbeing
Workshops
A range of bespoke, wellbeing activities for young people, chosen based on the needs and interests of those we engage
This has included healthy relationships, understanding mental health, creative arts and mindfulness, graphic design, LGBTQ+ safe spaces, financial management and much more.
Deepin DANCE
Pole fitness & Dance Classes
FREE Pole Fitness and Dancehall classes for 16-25 year old young women, prioritising survivors of abuse and violence.
Sessions are run on alternating Wednesdays.
- Pole Fitness is run from My Gravity Fitness and Dance (NW4 3JS) from 5:15pm – 6:30pm,
- Dance is run from Middlesex University, The Ritterman Building (NW4 4BT) from 5:30pm – 7pm.
Places for both classes are limited and can also be secured without or before a referral via Eventbrite for Pole Fitness HERE and Dance HERE. However, if the young woman has access needs that we should be aware of to support them safely, please submit a referral below.
Free DEEPIN DANCE classes every Wednesday, alternating between Pole Fitness and Afro/HipHop Dance for 16-25 year old young women.
Pole fitness 5:15-6:30 (doors close 5:30 sharp) at My Gravity Fitness NW4 3JS.
Dance with Jay (Afro/HipHop/Commercial) 5:30 – 7pm at Middlesex university, The Ritterman building
For further details and to sign up for the next class, visit our Eventbrite for Pole fitness or Afro/HipHop Dance.
You can watch a video from the first pole session here.
In School
Deepin
Relationships
In person or virtual Healthy Relationships, Healthy Friendships and Consent workshops for schools and youth organisations focused on increasing young people’s awareness of relationship abuse, whilst using creativity and drama to explore how to manage safe, respectful and healthy relationships, challenge abuse and access support.
We are currently offering FREE workshopshops for year 9 students, for more details or to book contact Nekhena@youthrealities.co.uk
Of 860 respondents: 90% of participants learnt more about relationship abuse, 96% enjoyed the workshop and 97% would recommend to a friend!
Youth
Facilitators
Aged 16-25 and passionate about working with young people to address relationship abuse? Join us to receive training to deliver our virtual or in-person Deepin Relationships workshop and be paid to run sessions in schools & other communities.
Youth Realities
Training for professionals focused on engaging survivors of relationship abuse, healthy relationships and working in an intersectional way – contact us for more details!
We have a team of experienced Team Leaders, Creative Facilitators and Youth Workers, ready to bring your youth-led project to life. In the past we have co-created films, podcasts and conducted research.
Previous Bespoke Projects
Generation Verified (2022)
Commissioned by Barnet Council, we worked with 10 young people aged 12-18 to create a short film that highlights the challenges faced online, and how this can impact children’s mental health.
The group learnt how to script, act, edit, produce, direct and work together as a team of completely differently experienced young people to create something that will be used to educate other young people for the foreseeable future in Barnet.
The short film also won the Young People’s Involvement in Digital Mental Health Team award for Group of the Year (2022)!
Programme (2020-2021)
From November 2020 – April 2021, three young people aged 16-19 were employed 2 days per week to work on a full organisation audit – who we are, what we do and how we do it – in order to bring fresh youth voices to our work!
The group completed peer-led research with other young people across Barnet reviewing our programmes, projects and services, as well as other core relationships and sex based services and their access to education, and established a list of recommendations that they pitched to our Board of Trustees, to influence our strategy moving forward.
This was a great opportunity to ensure we are representing, reflecting and listening to our young people; placing their voices in the centre of all we do.
You can download their full findings below!(2021)
London Youth funded sport, arts & wellbeing sessions for girls aged 9-14 until September 2021. Including creating and leading a Social Action Project with a £500 budget to go on their idea. The Social Action Project was a ‘Body Positivity’ campaign which included designing empowering t-shirts and gifting care boxes to survivors of abuse and violence.
Taboo Talks (2020)
In 2020 we partnered with Non-Violence Charity and delivered a creative podcast programme for young survivors, which trained them in podcast creation, amplified their voices through their own peer-led podcast series and had a launch event with empowering performances, friends and family.
In light on COVID-19, this project was a great opportunity to come together as a community of young women, reflect, learn and grow!
See full footage from the programme and find the episodes on Youtube, Apple Music and Spotify!
Too Little, Too Late (2019)
In 2019 we were commission by Barnet Council to lead peer-led research for their Director of Public Health’s Annual Report.
A group of 10 young people designed and ran workshops to over 60 other young people – the full research can be downloaded below.
They also created a powerful short-film, raising awareness of teenage relationship abuse. Completely acted in, scripted and narrated by the group.
What the full video below, as well as footage from our project showcase!
within Teenage Relationships (2018)
Youth Realities and a team of volunteer Psychology students produced local, peer-led research that focused on the prominence of abuse young people experience. Our findings were presented in Parliament to the Youth Violence Commission as evidence for their Youth Violence Report, later published in 2020.
We called for better Relationships and Sex Education, adequate training for professionals and funding for community relationship abuse support services.
