Vacancy: Sessional Online Counsellor
Think2Speak are recruiting for a sessional Counsellor to join our team working online at an hourly rate with children, young people and adults.
£80,000 Funding Boost
Think2Speak is celebrating after being awarded £80 000 in National Lottery funding to support its work with children and young people. The funding boost for the organisation, whose head office is in Marshall’s Yard Gainsborough, comprises of £10000 to provide wellbeing support to children and their families, and £70000 from the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, distributed by The National Lottery Community Fund to develop their unique LGBTQ+ peer support programme.
Calling out racism
For those who cast doubt on systemic racism in education: this picture was in a 2017 psychology textbook written by teachers, published by an educational publisher, approved by an exam board and used within schools. It literally doesn’t get more systemic than that.
ROAR - Youth Social Action
ROAR group is Think2Speak’s social action group for young people in the Gainsborough area. As a group young people look at what the issues and concerns might be for themselves and other young people and come up with ways they might be able to do something about them.
Say it loud. Say it proud.
In celebration of Think2Speak’s 5th birthday we share our latest collaboration with illustrator Rebecca Strickson; PROUD t shirts.
Free Superhero Certificates for the Children of Key Workers
Think2Speak helps you say thank you to the children of key workers! The social enterprise, based in Gainsborough, have created Superhero Certificates with artwork designed by celebrated illustrator Rebecca Strickson.
1500 Donated Wellbeing Packs head out to children in poverty
Gainsborough social enterprise Think2Speak has teamed up with celebrated artist Rebecca Strickson to create the Conversation Colouring Book – and we’re giving thousands free to locked-down families in need.
‘Conversation Starter’ Colouring Book to Boost Children’s Mental Health
Buy one, donate one books will also help families in need.
The colouring books are full of creative activities, postcards and ideas to encourage families to chat and spend time together. They are being sold with a ‘buy one donate one’ approach so that for every book purchased, a child experiencing food poverty will get a book for free.
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