Projects

Publicity flyer: With funding from Awards for All, members worked with Calderdale and Kirklees Careers to produce a publicity flyer with information about coming out and how to contact GALYIC so that personal advisers can give these to young people in schools who come to them for support.

Positive images: The Local Network Fund provided money to enable members to work with a local arts-based agency, HEADS to produce two posters to be distributed to schools, youth groups and other youth agencies.

Parents Project: With funding from the Parenting Support Grant (Community Foundation for Calderdale), GALYIC have launched a new project. The aim of the Parents Project is that parents of LGBT young people will have a better understanding of their children's needs and therefore be better able to meet those needs. Click here for further information.

Anne Lister Project: As part of the Vinvolved volunteering programme, the presentation group are developing a brand new presentation, Anne Lister's Diaries: The Rosetta Stone of 19th Century Lesbiansim. Click here for further information.

Media Box Project: Ryburn Valley High School contacted GALYIC to see if we wanted to get involved in a Media Box Project they were hoping to develop. The Project was about using media such as photography, creative writing and podcasting to challenge stereotypes. Several members took part in the six-month project and produced photographs and poetry. An exhibition of the Project was held in the Square Chapel. Click here for a link to project website, here for photos of Eve, and here for photos of Siobhan.