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| Dan Aid has been awarded funding from both the South Yorkshire Community Foundation, Grassroots Grant and the Sheffield City Council, Small Grants Fund. This is really excellent and exciting news, which we have been working hard over several months to secure and means that our plans for the teaching "Resource Packs" can now go ahead. |
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Dan Aid delivers educational workshops to key stage 3, 4, & 5 students as part of their PSHE (Personal, Social & Health Education) educational curriculum and has recently secured funding to develop a teaching resource pack. The pack will be piloted in selected secondary schools across Sheffield from Autumn 2009 - Spring 2010. We beleive if young people are educated about body piercing and the potential health risks, they will be empowered to make better informed, personally responsible choices which could impact significantly on their health and wellbeing. This meets the Every Child Matters objectives of "Staying Safe", "Being Healthy" and enjoying the freedom to express their individuality in a safe way. Research published in the British Medical Journal (June 2008) states that around 33% of piercings result in complications, some of which require professional help or hospitalization. Failure to safeguard young people from these risks may have a profound effect and impact greatly upon their daily lives. |
| "I started out in 1977 as a Producer for the BBC making television and radio programmes for the Open University. After a brief stint as head of an industrial video unit producing mainly training films, I set up as a freelance writer, producer and director, again specialising in training and education. In that period I worked successfully for a number of blue chip companies. In 1994 I joined the University of Sheffield as head of its internal media production unit which specialised in working with university teachers to produce media to support learning and teaching across the subject range. The unit evolved skills in a wide range of on-line approaches and one of my specialisms was working with teaching staff to design media suited to need. Having left the University and now operating as a consultant in education and media, I have recently set up Moving Frame, a production company which specialise in supporting third sector organisations." |
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| Dan Aid has worked hard as an organisation since 2003 to improve the body piercing industry. During that time we have educated thousands of school children throughout Sheffield about the health risks and safety issues associated with body piercing. This important message needs to reach as many young people as possible. Securing this funding will enable us to produce an educational teaching tool accessable to those seeking to be informed and educated in this area including organisations working with young people, not just here in Sheffield, but across the UK. |
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| Moving Frame Video Production and the Dan Aid Resource Pack Project |
"My names John Stratford and I have been involved in producing educational media for many years. I have been drawn to working with Dan Aid because my professional ethos is one of having a social focus to my work, and I see Dan Aid as being a very deserving cause with which to be associated. The prospect of contributing to the resource pack is an exciting one and it is to be hoped that when completed it will allow young people, especially those who may be vulnerable to infection, to approach body piercing in a more informed way than is currently the case. It is also to be hoped that the raised awareness brought about by Dan Aid will lead to a tightening of the regulation surrounding body piercing. |
| John Stratford |
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"Moving Frame is proud to be working with Dan Aid in the design and production of its resource packs." John Stratford Moving Frame - Video Production |
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| John Stratford and Kirsten Bartlett will be designing and producing the interactive DVD that will form part of the resource pack. John explains why they wanted to be a part of this project. |
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