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Grant helps provide healthy relationship advice for Felpham students

Arun Wellbeing given clean bill of health

 

 wellbeing logoStudents at Felpham Community College benefitted from healthy relationship education funded by a grant from the Arun Wellbeing & Health Partnership Small Grants Fund.

The grant of £823 enabled the Pregnancy Options Centre to deliver its programme of advice sessions to students on important issues such as healthy relationship boundaries, consent and myths and facts about sex.

The grant also helped Options provide healthy relationship education to a group of pregnant teenage mums from Bognor Regis, Felpham, Yapton and Arundel.

Catherine Kimbangi, Project Manager at the Pregnancy Options Centre said:  “In total we saw 236 students through the duration of the project. Both boys and girls benefitted from the project which also has a wider impact on their friends and family.”

Councillor Paul Wotherspoon, Cabinet Member for Communities Services, said of the grant: “Providing teenagers with honest, straightforward advice about sex and healthy relationships at this time in their lives is fundamental. The project at Felpham Community College helped to provide education to over 200 students and I am pleased the Partnership was able to support this work.”

The Pregnancy Options Centre provides free counselling and support to people within Arun and Chichester who are dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, post abortion or pregnancy loss. They also run educational programmes for teenagers through schools, which aim to reduce unplanned pregnancies. To find out more about the work they do, please visit the Pregnancy Options Centre’s website.

The Arun Wellbeing & Health Partnership’s Small Grants Fund helps local organisations who support the delivery of health and wellbeing services within the local community. Other beneficiaries of the grants in 2016 included My Sisters’ House CIC, Shopmobility and Enable Me.