Today is an exciting day for us at Gillingham YFC as ‘Whose Life’ can now be purchased to be used in schools and youth groups.

A while ago a group of teenage parents we support had a great idea of producing a video to show the reality of being a parent as a teenager. They had seen some videos that they felt just glamourised the issue and they wanted to show the truth through their own stories.

We got funding from the government via the Transforming Youth Work Fund and commissioned One Small Barking Dog to film the video that the girls wanted to produce. OSBD were excellent to work with; a big fear of the girls was that a production company would change their ideas etc. Pip from OSBD did not do this and a clip of the excellent result can be seen on their website.

If you want to use it please buy a copy. In Medway, the girls that are in the video are using it themselves in schools as part of an hour workshop. They have done 7 workshops already and the feedback is excellent.

As I said above – this is an exciting time for us and we are all so proud of these young women – so thanks to Claire, Rachel, Louise and Cassie.