OPEN are delighted to have received a grant from Viking Community Fund to employ a Trainee Peer Researcher over the next two years. Amy Calder, YouthLink Scotland and Jennifer Russell from Anderson Solutions are going to provide bespoke training for the OPEN staff team in June. OPEN’s peer research project aims to strengthen youth voice and leadership, young people will gain the skills and confidence to design and deliver community led peer research, and feel more valued and better able to influence decision makers in Shetland

Una Murray, OPEN Coordinator

I’m very grateful to have been given the opportunity to be a peer research youth worker for OPEN. I’m so excited to start in my role and looking forward to all of the experience and knowledge that I will gain from it! Every young person has the right to have their voices listened to and to have their views taken into consideration, so the fact that my role will allow me to be able to play a role in enabling this means a lot to me!”

Rhiannan Burns, Trainee Youth Worker
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