Online LGBT+ Anti-Bullying Workshop for UK schools

Aim

Professionally film our LGBT+ anti-bullying workshop to supply our service to new and rural UK secondary schools who need support online

About us

Diversity Role Models (DRM) is a LGBT+ education charity with a vision of a world where everybody embraces diversity and can thrive. 

DRM’s unique approach to embedding inclusion and building empathy is through educational workshops in schools featuring LGBT+ and ally role models. Students understand the (often unintended) impact of their language and actions, equipping them with the skills to challenge homophobic, biphobic and transphobic comments and bullying happening within the student body, triggering a whole school culture shift to celebrating and embracing difference. 

To ensure sustained change, student workshops are supplemented by training staff, governors and parents/carers.

The project

Many UK schools are unable to access our services due to location, income issues and now COVID-19 where many lessons now take place online.

We want to record our full workshop for every UK secondary school – including new, underfunded and rural schools – to support every students’ personal development as they learn to embrace and accept difference while responding to growing requests for pre-recorded lessons as a face-to-face alternative.

Why us?

DRM has been working to support students to embrace difference and end bullying using LGBT+ storytellers for over nine years. This project will advance our work tackling inequalities happening in schools through the lens of classroom bullying but also contributes to changing whole school cultures – from school staff to parents – to go on and improve local environments for all even during the COVID-19 pandemic when communities may be finding themselves struggling to connect.

This project successfully funded on 23rd March 2021