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Get Sorted, using funding from the People’s Postcode Trust, helped 25 young people make films to get their voices heard about important subjects such as bullying, racism, moving to a new country.

One group in particular benefited from the project and reached some very positive outcomes whilst taking part in an animation activity involving bullying.

We invited a group of girls aged 13 to 15 years old to attend Get Sorted and take part in our animation project. The girl’s involved were experiencing behavioural problems at school and other negative factors such as bullying, racism and peer pressure and had become quite a challenge to engage with. Our animation project was designed to break down and discuss the issues that were having a negative impact on the girl’s lives and offer them a way to explore ways to counter these problems. The girl’s quickly became very interested in debating and sharing their opinions with the rest of the group. We used the debates to collect ideas for what we could include in our animations and the group worked together to create an animation using their own ideas and opinions about bullying. The finished work was a great display of the groups own experiences and the girls worked extremely hard at learning and improving their knowledge.

When assessing the sessions we felt that a very difficult subject had been allowed to be approached in a very accessible way by using animation and we were satisfied that we had successfully engaged everyone in the group

“The People’s Postcode Trust is the grant giving independent charitable trust of People’s Postcode Lottery” who “distribute funds to small organisations, community groups and registered charities.”

“People’s Postcode Trust is solely funded by People’s Postcode Lottery. £2 from every monthly ticket goes to charity, and to date over £12 million has been raised for good causes in the UK. The People’s Postcode Trust has received over £2.4 million to date from People’s Postcode Lottery, which has been distributed to 489 organisations across the country.

Funding is awarded to projects with one or more of the following aims; to prevent poverty, to promote, maintain, improve and advance health, to advance citizenship or community development, to advance public participation in sport, to promote, improve and advance human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation, to promote and advance environmental protection or improvement.”