2017 Annual Report

We are delighted to present our 2017 annual report full of the facts and figures from the past 12 months! Have a read and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to get in touch! 

ShoutOut Wins a Belfast Pride Award!

We're delighted to announce that ShoutOut has won a BelfastPride Award along with Cara-Friend for our LGBTQ+ Inclusive Schools Programme!

Last year ShoutOut and Cara-Friend partnered together for the use of our schools programme for schools in Northern Ireland.

For this 27 workshops we're delivered in 10 schools reaching 800+ young people.

Along with Cara-Friend we're very grateful for everyone who voted for us!

170 WORKSHOPS COMPLETE!

Today was our very last workshop of the school year! 

This marked the 170th ShoutOut workshop since September. 

170 workshops

5000 school students

67 secondary schools

17 counties

Delivered by 65 trained volunteers

This represents over 1000 working hours from our workshop facilitators and the Directorial team, all of whom volunteer their time. 

66% of our workshops took place outside Co. Dublin 

We also trained 150 secondary school teachers on LGBTQ+ issues and how to be ally to their LGBTQ+ students. 

This would not be possible without our fantastic volunteers, the wonderful teachers who welcome us into their schools, and the incredible sponsors who support us. A huge thank you to Fidelity Investments, Oracle, Ulster Bank, Dropbox, Intertech, Lush and all the individual donations which have made the above possible. 

We cannot thank everyone enough. 

Yours,

Bella, Clare, Declan & Eoin

 

Dropbox & Samantha Mumba Lend A Hand

Dropbox Dublin last night held a fab networking event for LGBT tech workers. All 100 tickets SOLD OUT and the money raised (€1k) is being donated to ShoutOut to help us reach more schools.

Special guest star of the evening was SAMANTHA MUMBA (pop icon & friend of the gays). She was delighted to attend and support the cause.

Queer Prom Honours ShoutOut :-)

The Annual Queer Prom (organised by college pride societies) took place in the Davenport Hotel February 24th 2017. A new aspect of the ball was in inclusion of an award and guest of honour. 

Eoin O'Liathain (pictured below) accepted this on behalf of the ShoutOut committee. A good time was had by all. 

DIT Pride Soc Holds ShoutOut Training

DIT LGBT Society hosted ShoutOut training this evening in their Aungier street campus.

Good thing too as we've so far done 50+ workshops this year and have many more to go! :O

Our next training is in Outhouse March 8th. 

Fidelity Donates Furniture to our Office!

THANK You to Fidelity Insurance for their donation of lovely furniture for our office. Mitchell Cash, HR Director, and personal hero, led the charge on this partnership. Previously ShoutOut has worked with Fidelity's PRIDE Employee Resource Group and Learning & Development teams giving sessions to Fidelity Parents and Allies of LGBTQ+ children. As you can see from our smiles we're delighted with the gift :)

Pictured: Mitchell Cash, Eoin O'Liathain, Clare Ni Cheallaigh, and Bella FitzPatrick.

2017: New Year, New Workshops!

We're kicking off 2017 with 40 workshops booked in January alone!

These workshops are taking place in 15 schools across 11 counties on the Island of Ireland! 

In January alone we will have reached about 1200 students with the message that it's OK to be who you are, and it's not OK to bully those who differ from you. 

We set out with one simple goal; to make it a little easier to be LGBTQ+ in secondary school. It can be a tough time for any young person and many LGBTQ+ people are struggling with their identity and the prospect of coming out.

We wanted to educate young people about language in the LGBTQ+ community so they can have respectful dialogue, and create an environment where diversity is celebrated. 

With our specially designed, interactive hour long workshops which are FREE to schools on the Island of Ireland, we are working towards this goal, one workshop at a time. 

If you want to find out how you can be involved email Bella@ShoutOut.ie

Thanks InterTech for the Fundraiser!

Last week InterTech Ireland ( a professional network of LGBTQ+ workers ) held a fundraiser for us in Oscars bar. It was very fun, and raised €1700 on the night from ticket and raffle sales. Kudos to Conor Kavanagh for being a great MC, and many thanks to all who came.

ShoutOut launches in Northern Ireland!

We are delighted to announce that ShoutOut workshops will now be available in schools across Northern Ireland, in partnership with Cara-Friend, which runs the LGBTQ+ youth service in the North. This new partnership will allow us to reach more schools and students on an all-Ireland basis, working with our partners in the North to make the secondary school experience of LGBTQ+ young people more positive and more inclusive.

Our first workshop took place on Septmber 14th in St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School in Newry, and this followed on from taking part in Newry Pride earlier this month – our first in Pride in Northern Ireland. It’s another big step for ShoutOut as we kick off our fourth year in schools, since launching in 2013. The 2016-17 school year will see us deliver workshops to tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in all corners of Ireland. We are very excited about our new partnership and about reaching more students in schools than ever before!

“We’re very excited to be bring our workshop model to Northern Irish schools in partnership with Cara-Friend” says Bella FitzPatrick, Managing Director of ShoutOut. “The workshop in Newry earlier this month is hopefully the first of many over the coming year.”

“We were delighted to have ShoutOut deliver their first workshop in the North here at St. Joseph’s” says Declan Murray, Principal. “It’s a great honour to have been the first school to have received one, and it was received brilliantly by the students involved.”

If you would like to request a workshop for your school in Northern Ireland email Declan Meehan on declan.meehan@cara-friend.org.uk to organise!