Freedom Youth Groups
Learn about forced marriage, FGM and Dishonour Abuse — then choose what your group wants to make, write, perform, challenge or change.
Make it yours
Not another lesson.
A Freedom Youth Group is something young people can shape for themselves. One group might start with a book. Another might sing, perform, make a film, run a podcast, sell Red Triangle badges, invite a speaker or campaign around one issue.
The point is not to make every group identical. The point is to learn well, act safely and make something useful happen.
Explore & Create
Ask questions, read together, make things, test ideas and help other young people understand the issue.
Campaign & Lead
Research, organise, present, interview, write, perform and tell Freedom what young people need adults to understand.
Pick your thing
What would your group actually enjoy doing?
Start a reading group
Use But It’s Not Fair or Cut Flowers. Write reviews, poems, letters or short pieces for Freedom.
Make something memorable
Theatre, spoken word, singing, choir, dance, art, photography, animation or film.
Ask the questions
Interview an approved guest, discuss a Freedom book or explore what young people want adults to understand.
Run an awareness action
Plan an assembly, awareness week, school display or one clear campaign around an issue.
Raise money with a message
Badge sales, book sales, performances, sponsored activities or another idea agreed with your adult lead.
Bring Freedom into school
Invite Aneeta Prem MBE or another Freedom speaker for a talk, Q&A, book session or safeguarding event.
Books can start it
Start with a story.
Reading together can make a difficult subject easier to talk about. Choose a short section, talk about the choices people face and write questions for another class or group.
You could ask your library to stock the books or run a regular lunchtime reading group.
Use what you already love
Make something people remember.
A performance, film, artwork, podcast or piece of writing can reach people differently from another lesson.
Keep it accurate and never pressure anyone to tell a personal story or recreate somebody else’s abuse for effect.
Wear the message
The Red Triangle.
With your school or youth setting’s permission, run a badge day, build a display around it or include badges in a fundraiser.
The conversation matters as much as the badge. People should know what it stands for and why the issue matters.
The Freedom Method
Know. Notice. Respond. Change.
Find out what is true and where the information comes from.
Learn to spot warning signs, myths and things that do not feel right.
If someone tells you something worrying, listen and tell the right adult. You do not need to investigate it yourself.
Use what you have learned to make something better.
Start here
Three steps are enough.
You do not need a committee, a big campaign or a perfect plan before you begin.
Find your adult lead
Ask a teacher, sixth-form lead or youth worker who can take responsibility for the group and safeguarding.
Choose one first activity
A book discussion, podcast idea, badge day, performance, assembly or another small project is enough to start.
Tell Freedom
Contact us so we know your group exists and can point you towards the right guide, speaker, resource or next step.
Freedom can come to you
Invite us in.
Ask your school or youth setting to invite Aneeta Prem MBE or another Freedom speaker for a talk, Q&A, book session or safeguarding event.
You could also take over a lunchtime club, book group, debating society, choir, drama group or art club for a Freedom session.
Sometimes the opportunity goes further
Come with Freedom.
When suitable opportunities arise, Freedom may involve young people in events, launches, campaigns or civic visits, including Parliament.
These opportunities are not guaranteed and depend on the event, age, permissions, safeguarding, access and space.
If somebody tells you something worrying
You do not have to fix it.
Listen. Stay calm. Do not promise to keep abuse secret. Do not investigate, push for details, contact family members or try to solve it yourself.
Tell your adult lead or use the safeguarding route you have been given. If somebody is in immediate danger, get adult help and call 999 if needed. Once you have passed the concern on, the next safeguarding step belongs to the responsible adult.
Your choices matter
Taking part should stay voluntary.
You never have to tell a personal story, be photographed or filmed, speak publicly, deal with the media or raise money to prove you care.
You can ask for a different way to take part and you can stop an activity if it does not feel right.
Your voice matters
Tell Freedom what adults miss.
A Youth Group should not just repeat adult messages. Tell us what young people really ask, what sounds confusing and what would make information safer or easier to use.
Ready?
Start a Freedom Youth Group.
Ask your school, sixth form or youth organisation to support the group. Your adult lead can contact Freedom and we can help you work out the right starting point.
Freedom Youth Groups · Resource version September 2026 · Published by Freedom Charity