The Reward Foundation is celebrating its second birthday today. We did this in style by completing the first ever 24-hour screen fast with volunteers from S6 (final year) at George Heriot’s school in Edinburgh. See accompanying story for more details.
Here is what we have achieved in two years:
- obtained charitable status from the Office of the Scottish Charities Regulator OSCR
- reached in person a total audience of more than 1,500 people
- have spoken at 7 conferences in Scotland, London, Turkey and Germany
- delivered 8 seminars to 194 people
- provided training to 238 professionals
- given talks to 541 pupils in secondary schools
- written 3 academic papers, all currently awaiting peer-review
- co-authored a chapter in a book on sexual offending to be published in 2016
- contributed to public consultations in the UK and Australia on the use of pornography by adolescents
- developed a substantial website for adults and professionals working with adolescents
- hosted 5 volunteers from George Heriot’s School and Edinburgh Napier University
- launched a twitter feed @brain_love_sex (please join us)
- won several awards and grant funding: social innovation incubator award – SIIA; accelerated SIAA; pitching competition; Level One award from First Port, Grow It Award from UnLtd, and a grant from an Educational Trust in England to build a site for teenagers
- Mary Sharpe became a member of subcommittee on prevention of sexual abuse of the National Organisation for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers
- Mary Sharpe has been appointed to the board of the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH) in the USA
- Lots of plans for the coming year