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Students at St John the Baptist School, Woking, visited the House of Lords this week, in recognition of their work with the Young Anti-Bullying Alliance (YABA).
YABA was set up by the Anti-Bullying Alliance in 2022, to influence its project and programme work, help develop the messaging and campaign of Anti-Bullying Week, and to provide general feedback on bullying to help the organisation to include young people’s views in their work. The Anti-Bullying Alliance believes that children and young people should actively participate in decisions that affect them.
YABA gives young people the opportunity to share what is important to them when it comes to bullying issues, and contribute to projects, programmes and campaigns. They are provided with training opportunities such as social media marketing training, media training and anti-bullying training, and the chance to influence the annual Anti-Bullying Week campaign that reaches millions of children and young people across the UK.
This year, three girls from St John the Baptist contributed to the 2024 Anti-Bullying Week campaign. Both Oliwia and Teagan were invited to the House of Lords by Baroness Kidron to chair the charity's Anti-Bullying event, speaking to their patrons. This included Manchester City’s Ruben Dias and Andy and the Odd Socks band. The girls then were interviewed by BBC Bitesize.
A representative of the school said:
"We are incredibly proud of the girls and what an amazing job they did at representing the school at such an exciting opportunity!"
