Information for parents and CARERS

Girlhood Reclaimed is a community interest company that aims to disrupt the growing dominance of misogynistic narratives through feminist research, awareness training, and creating safe spaces for young women, girls, and children from marginalised genders to make sense of their experiences and reclaim joy in their girlhood.

Meet the Team

  • Rae Pears

    Founder and Managing Director

    Rae has nearly two decades of experience in youth work, women’s mental health, and working in the field of ending violence against women and girls.

    Rae specialises in delivering empathic training and youth work that is empowering and creates space for people to not only deeply understand the impact of gender-based violence but engage with its impact on their own lives and those around them.  

  • Tilly Hall

    Director of Communications and Engagement

    Tilly works across communications, marketing, coordination and data analysis spanning numerous charities working in the ending male violence against women and girls sector.

  • Tatiana Powell

    Workshop Facilitator

    Tatiana works in Youth Violence Prevention. A local Bristolian, she has with years of experience working locally with young people around harm and social research.

Why are we running workshops?

In the news and academic spaces, we continue to hear how young women, girls, and young people of marginalised genders are experiencing growing rates of misogyny and sexism in public, in educational settings, and online.

We facilitate workshops with young people which are designed to support participants in understanding and communicating their own experiences of misogyny, sexism, and sexual harassment.

We provide a collective environment of sharing and support, alongside opportunities to engage with feminist activism. Together, we explore what it might look like to reclaim joy in girlhood and how we can take action to make that a reality.

This approach helps to undo the harm caused by sexist and misogynistic narratives, present in everyday life.

What will these workshops include?

We introduce key concepts such as safety, freedom, misogyny, sexism, patriarchy, and internalised misogyny to support the group in exploring their own experiences and understanding the harm these systems create.

Together, we examine how these forces shape our sense of safety and freedom, before moving into a collective and positive exploration of girlhood and gender that celebrates our identities and helps us reclaim joy in who we are.

In these sessions, we equip participants with a deeper understanding of misogyny and its harm, but also with a renewed sense of community, encouraging empathy, shared understanding, and stronger relationships amongst the group.

These sessions are aimed appropriately and delivered separately for each age/year group.

We work closely with the school or youth centre’s safeguarding team and provide a trauma-informed and well-safeguarded space.

The workshops will last for 2 hours. When delivered in schools, these will run during lesson time.

Youth and Community group sessions are one-off sessions, with dates and times agreed upon on an individual basis.

PHOTOgraphs and VIDEOS

Keeping your child safe online is a priority for Girlhood Reclaimed.

We will never use your child’s likeness, image, or voice in any form of media (including photographs, videos, audio recordings, or written materials) where they can be identified without informed consent from you and from them.

Girlhood Reclaimed uses photos, videos, and participant testimonies to showcase our work and impact on the website, in social media campaigns, and within project material to:

  • promote the activities and impact of Girlhood Reclaimed, so we can reach more young women, girls and young people of marginalised genders

  • centre the voices and experiences of participants, sharing their feelings and thoughts exactly as they express them

Withdrawing Consent and Confidentiality

If you choose to give consent, it will remain valid indefinitely unless you specify otherwise. You may withdraw consent at any time by providing written or verbal notice to Girlhood Reclaimed.

If consent is withdrawn after materials have already been shared, it may not be possible to remove or recall items that are already in circulation.

Girlhood Reclaimed will handle all personal information in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We will not disclose personal information to third parties without consent, except where required by law.

Testimonials

  • Merchants Academy, Assistant Head Teacher

    “Merchants' Academy Secondary are incredibly grateful for the work that Girlhood Reclaimed has done with our year 9 students this academic year. The students shared that this was their favourite intervention all year. They said they felt empowered and confident. Girlhood Reclaimed focuses on making students feeling secure and creating safe spaces for difficult conversations."

  • Cotham School, Head Teacher

    “We cannot speak highly enough of our experience working with Girlhood Reclaimed. Their work with our secondary school community has been truly exceptional and has left a lasting impact on both students and staff.”