World AIDS Day
WORLD AIDS DAY 2007
This year Body Positive provided manned stands at Franklin College and The Grimsby Institute in Grimsby.
We provided the resources to enable Cazzie Adams, Steve Davis and Mick Charles (together with their volunteers) from the Youth Service to provide staffed stands at Havelock School, Humberstone Comprehensive, Immingham School, Lindsey Upper School and Whitgift School, all in the North East Lincolnshire area.
As in previous years, questionnaires (to assess levels of HIV/AIDS awareness in the area) were completed by staff and students at all the educational establishments hosting World AIDS Day events. It is anticipated that approximately 700 questionnaires were completed. The results will be collated and fed back in the New Year.
On 01 December 2007 a fund-raising event for Body Positive was held, in the evening, at La Rues Cabaret Bar in Grimsby. The event was well-attended and proved a great success.
Body Positive would like to thank:
All participating North East Lincolnshire schools and colleges
North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus
Cazzie Adams, Steve Davis, Mick Charles, Kath Ridley and their volunteers
Jennifer Parker and her staff at La Rues Cabaret Bar
All BP volunteers
And everybody else who very kindly donated their time and services and/or made donations or who contributed in any way on World AIDS Day
WORLD AIDS DAY 2006
Last year on World AIDS Day Body Positive visited 3 schools in the Scunthorpe area and 2 schools and a college in the Grimsby area. Questionnaires were completed by staff and students to assess levels of awareness in HIV.
A total of 701 questionnaires were completed by staff and students to assess levels of awareness in HIV and AIDS
The information given on the questionnaires has been collated and the results have been fed back to the individual schools and the college.
Body Positive was also involved, in an advisory capacity, with the North Lindsey College Drama Group, in a drama project. This was the drama group's project for World AIDS Day. Two performances were given on the day and approximately 650 students attended. It is hoped the Play will be cascaded to other schools and colleges.
An evening event was held at Body Positive's Healthy Living Centre in Scunthorpe. A humanist service, in rememberance of those who have died from AIDS-related illness, was conducted by Mark Tyack and the following extract from the works of Herbert Read was read out: “The death of each of you is in the order of things, it follows life as surely as night follows day, we can take a tree of life as a symbol, the human race is the trunk and branches of this tree and the individual man and woman are the leaves, which appear for one season, flourish for the summer and die, I too am like a leaf on a tree and one day I shall be torn off by a storm, or simply decay and fall and mingle with the earth and it’s roots. But whilst I live, I am conscious of the tree’s flowing sap and its steadfast strength, deep down in my consciousness is the consciousness of a collective life, a life of which I am part and to which I make a minute but unique contribution. When I die and fall the tree remains, nourished by my manifestation of life. Millions of leaves have preceded me and millions will follow; but the tree itself endures and grows.” After a a candlelight vigil , a social evening followed with music provided by local acoustic duo "Dha Rud".
BP would like to thank :
Schools in North and North East Lincolnshire, respective PCT's and Local Authorities, Mark Tyack & Dha Rud
and everybody else who very kindly volunteered their services and/or made donations on World AIDS Day.
