Over 4000 young people on waiting list to become CyberMentors
12 March 2010
Over 4000 young people have now applied to Beatbullying in the hope of becoming a volunteer on the CyberMentors programme. These are young people who have applied online, because they don't have the programme in their schools. This would seem to effectively dispel the notion that our young people aren't interested in volunteering or doing anything for their communities! Currently there are 2911 young people volunteering as CyberMentors and the latest application figures show that wanting to help your peers is clearly popular with our young people. Go CyberMentors - activism rocks!
BBC News School Report 2010 is bigger than ever!
11 March 2010
More than 700 schools from across the UK - and a number of international schools - are taking part in BBC School Report News Day today, one of them being our own CyberMentor-trained Horbury School, Wakefield. Other schools using the CyberMentors service are also taking part. Good luck to the Horbury news team!
Philip Blond's localism is radical and exciting
10 March 2010
"Blond’s platform on localism and connectivity is radical, probably prophetic and genuinely exciting. It could democratise access to services, ignite participation and fundamentally transfer power to the many from the few, if adopted pragmatically by the third sector.
"Localism isn’t new - it’s been the very thing for some time, both on the left and the right. It concerns itself with fortifying social relationships, devolving decisions and resources in absolute terms to citizens, thereby engaging the socially and politically estranged among us. Glueing society back together by empowering an army of Burke’s “little platoons”."
Read Emma-Jane's blog in the Third Sector
Mozilla release new version of Firefox for CyberMentors
04 March 2010
Our lovely partners Mozilla have just released a new version of the Firefox for CyberMentors browser. The browser has now been downloaded over 10,700 times and helps young CyberMentors organise their workflow online. The browser also has a custom built media bar which streams in video content from our YouTube channel and mp3s from our iTunes page.
Happy Birthday, CyberMentors!
03 March 2010
Unbelievable - but true! We are a year old today! It's been an eventful year for CyberMentors and a huge amount has happened.
Read a quick review of the year >>
Homophobic bullying lesson plan now available
We are currently producing a range of new lesson plans for both primary and secondary schools. More are being uploaded each week, so check back regularly.
Download the latest one on Homophobic Bullying
Click Bullying Into Touch
Click Bullying into Touch asks for action on bullying now. Beatbullying and the News of the World have launched a major new campaign together asking for:
Social Networking Sites to take responsibility for offensive posts and work to remove them within 6 hours
Senior teachers to be appointed in schools to take responsibility for anti-bullying policy and be a single point of contact for families
Funded anti-bullying policy to be a fixture in all political party manifestos
A Schools' Safety Bill making it against the law to bully a pupil or teacher in or around school
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN >>
BBMusic
Check out all the tunes from the BBMusic workshop on iTunes
Help for parents
Are you finding it difficult dealing with your child being bullied? Need help and don't know who to talk to?
Check out our online resources for parents.
Celebrity Fashion Show
We have a few tickets left for our Celebrity Fashion Show in Cardiff on 21st March! Local celebs will be taking to the catwalk to raise money for BB! Email Rebecca for more details.
Read Emma's blog
Our CEO, Emma-Jane Cross blogs for Third Sector magazine online >>
Supporters of the Click Bullying Into Touch campaign
Best Use of Digital Media
Charity Principal of the Year
