YouthNet receives £20,000 for online advice training scheme
Howard Lake | 19 July 2007 | News
YouthNet’s advice service, askTheSite, has received a grant of £10,000 from the Jack Petchey Foundation to help train young people as volunteer peer advisors. This second grant from the Foundation has been matched with a further £10,000 by v, the youth volunteering charity.
Over 120 peer volunteers have now been trained to offer advice on relationships through askTheSite. Since its launch in 2003, some 15,000 questions have been answered on general health, drink and drugs, housing, legal and rights, mental and emotional health, money, relationships and sexual health.
Through the service, young people can submit a question and within three days, get a bespoke answer from an expert. Partners providing tailored answers include the Samaritans and the Citizens Advice Bureau.
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Stephen Corriette, Grants Manager for the Jack Petchey Foundation said: “The work of TheSite.org is hugely impressive and we are delighted to support its innovative askTheSite service with this second funding award. Training young people to offer peer-to-peer advice means that more young adults will get the ./guidance they need to live their lives with confidence.”
AskTheSite is also supported by The Vodafone UK Foundation and The Bridge House Trust.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.