Help raise £20K for Ukraine
You would be forgiven for thinking that when Russia invaded and war broke out, the ACET Ukraine team stopped working - but far from it - in March alone, ACET volunteers reached 950 teenagers in person with sessions on mental health and healthy lifestyles and ran 230 sessions onli
#FosteringCommunities
‘It takes a village to raise a child.’
How can Christian youth workers better talk about relationships & sex in their work with young people?
It has been increasingly clear that Christian youth workers are not always provided with the tools and support to tackle issues of relationships and sex in their work.
A poem for World Poetry Day
Today is national poetry day and so we thought we’d rhyme
a few words all together for you to read in time.
We aim to transform culture, by getting folk like you
Hentai was the global number one search term on PornHub in 2021
Warning this is a long section, you might want to get a cuppa first.
Opening doors in Slovakia
It was so encouraging to hear news from Petra, an ACET Slovakia educator from Nitra, about closed doors being opened.
Salt & Light March 2022
It’s a bit too late to say ‘Happy New year’ so instead - welcome to our first 2022 newsletter!
Kezi’s story
Trigger warning - the following story is a true account from one of our members and may be very disturbing to those who have been victims of rape or abuse. Kezi's name has been changed to protect their identity.
Just after my 19th birthday, two men tried to rape me.
The ‘cruel cut’
‘On the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, join us in calling to accelerate investment to end female genital mutilation and uphold the human rights of all women and girls.’ UN Secretary-General António Guterres, February 6th
40 years on: Gender inequality - a driver of HIV
(This story is also featured in Charity Today.)
Garfield Weston grant news
Amazing news - The Garfield Weston Foundation has awarded us £20,000 for core costs of the Esteem programme!
Please help us raise £24,016 in a week
For the first time, the Big Give has offered acet UK the full champion matched funding for the Christmas Challenge online matched funding campaign to add to our pledger’s matched funding.