Press Release: Culture, Youth, Education, Women, Business
Inaugural Rocking Ur Teens Conference Announces Stellar Line-Up
12th March 2015
London, United Kingdom: Rocking Ur Teens CIC in association with intelligent information specialists Thomson Reuters are pleased to announce their inaugural ‘Rocking Ur Teens’ Conference on 12 March 2015 at Thomson Reuters Canary Wharf HQ.
“We aim to create a global community of teens that make change happen,” says co-founder Jenny Garrett. “We formed in response to research, which highlights lack of self-esteem, inspiration and aspiration as an epidemic among young people, and we aim to counteract this.”
The energetic and interactive day will be hosted by award winning presenter Remel London. Confirmed keynote speakers Emma Barnett (Women’s Editor of the Telegraph), Yasmin Ali (Young Woman Engineer of the Year 2013) and the Mandeville Sisters (Presenters and vLoggers) will be sharing life experiences and inspiring messages with 200 young girls aged 13-14 from all over the UK.
The conference will focus on supporting teen girls in a safe, fun, informative environment to learn, share and grow whilst providing effective tools to help them to successfully navigate their teen years.
The keynotes will be followed by a choice of 30-minute workshops on leadership, entrepreneurship, making good choices and technology. After this, there will be a panel of apprentices, graduates and interns sharing their experience of working in the corporate world.
The day continues with a second choice of 30-minute workshops. The day will end with a final session on Social Change when the girls will take a pledge to make a difference. The day ends with the music of Tendai.
The ‘Rocking Ur Teens’ conference coincides with National Apprenticeship Week, which runs from 9-13 March 2015. International Women’s Day also takes place in the same week and serves to highlight the importance of enabling young girls to find their way into the workplace and towards a fulfilling life.
‘Rocking Ur Teens’ is a community interest project co-founded by Jenny Garrett, Sandy Parris and Geoffrey Williams to inspire and increase the aspirations of young teens, to share their experiences and take an active role in defining their futures and careers.
Notes to editors:
Jenny Garrett is the award-winning coach and founder of Reflexion Associates, a leadership and coaching consultancy. She’s also the author of Rocking Your Role, a how-to guide to success for female breadwinners, creator of the online coaching programme the Happenista Project and co-founder of Rocking Ur Teens CIC.
Rocking Ur Teens CIC
Phone: 0794 606 3120
Email: info@rockingurteens.com / info@literallypr.com
Web: https://www.rockingurteens.com
Statistics for media use:
Source: UK Feminsta http://ukfeminista.org.uk/take-action/generation-f/statistics/
Violence
Sexual bullying and harassment are routine in UK schools. Almost one third of girls experience unwanted sexual touching in UK schools.
Body Image
An Ofsted survey of 150,000 children found that by the age of 10 a third of girls cited their bodies as their main source of worry.
16% of 15 to 17-year-olds have avoided going to school because they felt bad about their appearance and 20% have avoided giving an opinion in public because of it.
Sexual Objectification
A survey for the Channel 4 programme ‘Sex Education versus Pornography’ found 60% of 14 to 17 year olds agreed that “pornography might give boys or girls false ideas about sex”, and three in 10 said they learn about sex from porn.
Sports
40% of girls feel self-conscious about their bodies during PE.
26% say they ‘hate the way that they look when they exercise/play sport’.
Jobs
Nearly one third (31%) of boys believe women politicians are not as good as men.
Twenty per cent of girls said they were put off a career in science because they saw them as ‘jobs for boys’.
Source: UK Feminsta http://ukfeminista.org.uk/take-action/generation-f/statistics/
Dumbing Down
In secondary school 25% girls will dumb down to fit in.
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