UPCOMING EVENTS
Team Tender Take on Prague!
Four enthusiastic Tender supporters
are combining their energies to take on the Prague marathon in a relay on May 9th. They have been training through snow, rain and sunshine. Find out more about their efforts on their Justgiving Page (click here). You can show them some encouragement by donating to the page and all the proceeds will go towards helping Tender to prevent domestic and sexual violence.
Tender are offering a one day training: Awareness and Good Practice when working with women experiencing violence and abuse in relationships
19th May 2010 (9.45am – 4.00pm) in Central London
This training will equip participants with an understanding of the issues for women experiencing violence from men they know, the pressures on women 
to stay in violent relationships and the impact on children witnessing and experiencing domestic abuse.
The programme is designed to give participants an appreciation of the barriers experienced by abused women, which might prevent them from seeking and securing the help they need.
The day is aimed at staff in any agency who may be called upon to support, advise, treat, or otherwise assist a woman experiencing violence from a man she knows.
The cost of this training is £75. If you would like to book a place or find out more information, please contact Susie McDonald at Tender Susie@tender.org.uk; 0207 431 7227
RECENT EVENTS...
London Marathon
Irish soap star Andrew Macklin ran the London Marathon for Tender in just four hours and six minutes! hanks so much for all your support!
Capita's Domestic Violence Conference on Monday 26th April 2010 in Central London
Our director Susie McDonald will be talking about Violence Prevention with Young People in Schools and Youth Centres at the Capita's 11th National Domestic Violence Conference. The conference brings together expert speakers and practitoners to adress the challenges of combating domestic violence and to realise the aims in the cross-department strategy.
For more information click here
The National Practitioners Seminar, Wednesday 24th March 2010 (Birkbeck College, London)
Tender has partnered with Respect to host the National Practitioners’ Seminar for Those Addressing Young People’s Use of Violence in Close Relationships on the 24th of March. The forum provided a unique opportunity to learn from successful models of delivery, evaluate work with young people, network with other organisations from across the country and to explore the latest research. There has been a particular focus on education and youth-led initiatives, including peer-to-peer education and campaigning, and the methods used to train young people in the issues.
No Excuse
Tender hosted a conference on December 11th 2009 to launch the results of a two year independent evaluation of its work in secondary schools preventing domestic and sexual violence with young people. The conference took place at the Institute of Education, WC1H 0AL.
On Saturday 19th September Nikki Rummer - Tender's Education Co-ordinator - is going to walk across the Millenium Bridge on her hands. The iconic bridge is 144 metres and it will take 500 'hand-steps' to get across. It's on an incline too. This is the most difficult of all Nikki's fundraisers and with your support she hopes not only to make it across the Millennium Bridge, but that Tender will continue to engage young people in violence-prevention. Please support Nikki and Tender through her Just Giving page and come and show your support in person on the Millennium Bridge from 2pm on Saturday September 19th. Join in from the North bank via Mansion House tube station or Southwark on the South Bank. Join the team involved for relaxing drinks after. For more information send us an email.
Millenium Bridge Handstand Walk
We look forward to seeing you there, In the meantime check out these photos from Nikki's preparations.
. Watch Nikki's triumphant hand-walk across the Millennium Bridge! V-Day! There are over 50 VDay events around the UK this year. See events and our Spotlight campaign on our VDay website here PAST EVENTS BIRDS EYE VIEW FILM FESTIVAL 5 – 13th March 2009 Birds Eye View celebrates international women filmmakers with its fifth London film festival at BFI Southbank, ICA, and Picturehouse cinemas. 9 days jam-packed with over 70 events including top US indie features, hot Sundance docs, world-class shorts, exclusive director masterclasses and training, plus one-off live music-film events, moving image innovation, fashion films, parties and much much more… Click here for website.
V-Day's ambassador - Lynne Franks - nominates TENDER to become beneficiary of Celebrity Funny Women.
Funny Women celebrates International Women’s Day with a fantastic new show, Celebrity Funny Women. Hosted by Claire Sweeney, four female celebrities face the challenge of becoming a Funny Woman, coached and supported by some of Funny Women’s favourite comedians. Well-loved personalities will step out of their comfort zone and perform a short stand-up set in front of a live audience at the London Studios, in support of Tender and ActionAid. Claire Sweeney, Janet Ellis and Gaby Logan Blue Peter legend Janet Ellis is teamed with impressionist Jan Ravens. PR guru and author Lynne Franks finds her funny bone with diminutive American stand up TanyaLee Davis. And sports presenter Gabby Logan is being put through her comedy paces by Funny Women Award winner, Andi Osho. And LBC’s very own funny woman, Jeni Barnett is performing magical mayhem with comic magician Mandy Muden. The celebrities will perform short live sets, alongside footage of their learning experiences, at The London Studios, ITV’s Television production complex on the South Bank, where many of the UK’s most famous television shows are made. They will be joined on stage by professional Funny Women favourites including Funny Women Awards winner 2008 Katherine Ryan, musical double-act Adams and Rea, with further musical entertainment from Funny Women’s very own house-band, Vaginal Tap. CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY AND STAND UP AGAINST VIOLENCE TO WOMEN WITH SOME OF BRITAIN’S FINEST FEMALE COMICS Celebrate International Women’s Day with us on Saturday 8th March 2008 at NIVEA Funny Women Stand Up. Now in its fifth consecutive year with another brilliant all female comedy line up. Our fantasic line up: Jo Brand, Jo Caulfield, Nina Conti, Bridget Christie, Joanne Lau, Isy Suttie, Tanyalee Davis, Rhona Cameron & Blind Design MUSIC AND COMEDY NIGHT IN JANUARY We're celebrating our 5th Anniversary with a unique night of music and comedy on Wednesday 16th January at The Borderline, Orange Yard. Special guests include singer/songwriter Daniel Rachel; critically acclaimed female blues singer Willis; ‘comic genius’ Terry Alderton and our favourite comedian and regular supporter MC Kevin Day. Daniel Rachel will be performing his debut London headline with the release of his Tender backed single 'Let It Be Mine'. Blues singer Willis, Funny men Terry Alderton and Kevin Day Here’s just some of the praise our performers have received… Daniel Rachel: ‘...there is power here, no little insight, and some very fine songs, too' (MOJO) Willis: ‘haunting’ and ‘intoxicating’ (The Guardian) Terry Alderton: ‘…a fantastic comedy mind’ (Eddie Izzard) Kevin Day: ‘…very classy comedy.’ (Chortle, UK comedy guide) 2007 BEHIND THE SEEN' PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION A group of young Londoners will present a series of anti-violence images at City Hall from the 26th November until the 11th December. The exhibition explores young people's responses to issues surrounding domestic and sexual abuse. 'Behind the Seen' was created as part of a 4-week collaboration delivered by Tender, through the TRUST programme, and London Bubble Theatre Company. The project invited young people to work in their own time, after school, to address how violent relationships are allowed to happen. The outcome of their work is an original exhibition to promote healthy relationships based on equality and respect and to mark the international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. TRUST PERFORMANCES BY YOUNG PEOPLE Young people will be presenting their end of end-of-project performances about healthy and unhealthy relationships in boroughs across Greater London over the next 6 weeks. Tender has worked with 14 groups of young people through the TRUST project this term, a project that works in secondary schools and youth centres for the prevention of domestic abuse and sexual violence. This Autumn, young people have been actively involved in the boroughs of Barnet, Bromley, Camden, Croydon, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Kensington & Chelsea, Southwark and Waltham Forest. If you would like more information about TRUST and the upcoming performances, please contact Susie McDonald, Education Manger, at susie@tender.org.uk
THANKS TO UNDERBLING & VOW A big thank you goes out to the entire cast of Underbling & Vow's cabaret, who played to a sell-out crowd in support of Tender in Hoxton Hall in October. A grand cockney knees-up was had by all!
This year's Spotlight campaign is focussed on the women and girls of the DRC
