HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH 🫶🏾 We’re celebrating the histories, resilience and contributions of Black communities, while reflecting on how we can build more inclusive, equitable and anti-racist relationships and sex education (RSE). This means challenging structural racism and taking an intersectional approach to our teaching. From addressing sexual health inequalities to ensuring education is culturally responsive and representative, RSE has a vital role in supporting joyful relationships and sexual experiences for all. At Split Banana, anti-racist practice is an ongoing commitment. Here are some recent experiences that are shaping our work: 🫶🏾 A guided conversation with African Activities and Shameem Sadiq-Tang, on how we can protect and support communities in hostile environments where racism and misogyny can occur. 🫶🏾 Taking part in the Abolitionist Futures reading group, which explored the work of Black abolitionists and created space for us to consider how we might develop prevention education centred on relationships, care and accountability, rather than punishment and control. 🫶🏾 Attending a workshop with Anti Racist Cumbria where they shared their key pillars of resistance: embodiment, comradeship, rest, grief and collective care as essential to sustainable activism. We recommend reading Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey if you want to learn more about this! We can put this into practice by supporting Black RSE practitioners, creators and organisers. Here are some brilliant Black-led organisations to learn more about: ❤️ Reproductive Justice Initiative who work at the intersection of racial justice and sexual and reproductive health. ❤️ SHERO who do community-level work in London empowering Black women and young people around reproductive wellness and tackling stigma. ❤️ Black Men's Health UK, who are dedicated health advocacy platform addressing the stark inequalities faced by Black men in the UK - from sexual health and STI testing disparities to prostate health, mental health and healthy relationships.
Split Banana Education C.I.C.
Civic and Social Organizations
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Award-winning non-profit reshaping Relationship and Sex Education (RSE).
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Split Banana delivers Relationship, and Sex Education (RSE) in three ways: by running workshops with young people; by training educators; and by consulting with schools and community organisations on their RSE provision. We combine this support into transformative whole-school RSE packages that help young people build healthy relationships with their minds, their bodies and each other.
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⭐ Only 10 days left to apply to our Relationships & Sex Education Leadership Programme ⭐ Starting November 2026 | Hampshire • Sussex • Isle of Wight • Dorset • Whitshire Designed for educators in mainstream secondary schools and colleges, this year-long programme will give you the knowledge, skills and confidence to lead inclusive, high-impact RSE across your setting. Over the year, you’ll get: 📍 3 in-person training days 💡 Inspiring keynote sessions from RSE experts 💬 1:1 strategic support tailored to your setting 🍎 Access to our expert faculty ✏️ Resource Hub membership with practical tools and resources 🤝 An ongoing regional network of educators to learn and collaborate with Find our more and apply at https://lnkd.in/e8WJKPqq
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Missed our How To training sessions? 👀 We’ve got you! Two of last year’s webinars are now available on demand, so you can catch up whenever it works for you. Both sessions are packed with practical ideas, useful resources and evidence-based insight to support your work with young people. 💻 How To: Build Literacy Around Pornography with Matilda Lawrence-Jubb Explore how we can support young people to critically understand pornography, its influence and the messages it can communicate. 💻How To: Deconstruct Misogyny with Young People with Tasha Mansley and Tim Squirrell Explore how misogyny shows up in young people’s lives and ways to help young people question and unpack harmful attitudes and beliefs. 👉 Find out more and get access at https://lnkd.in/eU4jtEEw
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🍂 Meet our new facilitators! Three fantastic facilitators have joined us for another year of inclusive, relevant RSE that changes lives! They each bring a brilliant mix of experience, creativity and passion for working with young people. Foxy is a facilitator and sex and relationship educator who works in schools, communities and youth justice organisations. Her favourite part of working with young people on RSE is hearing the questions they’ve been dying to ask! When she’s not working in classrooms, you can find her in theatres and on sets, where she works as an Intimacy Director and Coordinator. Shanika is a theatre-maker and creative facilitator who uses her skills to enable tough conversations and exciting learning to take place. She is passionate about making sure young people have access to great relationships and sex education, so that we can help create a safer, fairer and more enjoyable world for new generations to grow up in. Henn Mossery-Golan has been teaching relationship and sex education and working in community-focused sexual health advocacy for over eight years. They believe RSE is important because it helps build confidence and empathy in young people, while giving them the tools to make informed decisions about their bodies. Join us in welcoming them!
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Celebrate good times, come on! 🎉🥳✨ Last week, our founders Anna and Matilda headed to London for a lovely day celebrating 10 years of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Youth Fund with all the brilliant organisations it has supported that are making a difference for young people. We’re especially grateful to Paul Hamlyn Foundation, who were the first funder to support Split Banana back in 2019, when we received our first funding through the Youth Fund. Their continued backing has helped us grow in ways we could not have imagined. With their support, we were able to develop our RSE Leadership Programme, a year long programme giving educators the time, practical support and community they need to develop their practice. It has also helped us deepen our work in SEND, working with young people with disabilities and making sure more young people’s experiences and needs are at the heart of what we do. If it wasn’t for the Youth Fund believing in our mission, alongside all the other generous funders who have supported us since, we would not be able to say that we have impacted over ONE HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND YOUNG PEOPLE since we started in 2019! We are so grateful to the people who believed in Split Banana from the beginning, and to everyone who continues to make this work possible. 🫶
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✨ We’re ready for the new term and excited to make a positive impact. Are you? At the start of the month, we brought our whole facilitator team together for a day of training, sharing and getting ready for the new term. As part of the day we refreshed our sexual health knowledge and a few stats from the day particularly stood out: 📉 Bacterial STI diagnoses among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men decreased overall between 2024 and 2025. 💉 Between 2020 and 2024, no women in their early 20s were recorded as having died from cervical cancer in England, highlighting the impact of programmes including HPV vaccination for girls. 📊 Most STIs are diagnosed among people of White ethnicities, but some ethnic minority groups experience disproportionately higher diagnosis rates. 🖼️ We also looked at the bigger picture...Did you know that the Public Health Grant allocations for sexual health services have decreased by 20% since 2015? That’s why high-quality, inclusive and accessible sexual health education in schools matters. Find out how we can support your whole school at https://lnkd.in/eX5jTCsF
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What an inspiring day celebrating 10 years of the Youth Fund with the Paul Hamlyn Foundation 💫 I was in a room with over 100 people dedicated to building better futures for young people across education, criminal justice, wellbeing, mental health and more. There were so many vital discussions shared and a big sense of solidarity in the room. The whole youth sector has faced immense challenges over the last decade so leaving the space feeling joyful, hopeful and uplifted meant a lot. My favourite part was participating in a guided discussion led by Anti Racist Cumbria who spoke about organisational acts of resistance and how vital collective rest, grief and care are in their work. Thank you to PHF for being in our corner for many years - supporting us with an Ideas and Pioneers grant when we were baby-faced in 2019 and a Youth Fund grant in 2024. We won't stop pushing for better, more inclusive RSE for all young people! 🌱
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There’s nothing better than hearing that students have really enjoyed our workshops!❤️ We were so pleased to receive such lovely feedback about our Year 10 Sexual Health workshop. It’s always great to know that students found the session engaging, informative and, most importantly, relevant to them. From Year 7 through to Year 13, our age-appropriate, interactive workshops are designed to make RSE meaningful, engaging and accessible for every student. If you’re planning your RSE provision for the year ahead, we’d love to work with you. 🍌 Find out more at https://lnkd.in/ezUAYsxe
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Our Impact Report is out! I'm so proud of the work we do with young people and professionals at Split Banana. This is my first impact report as Programme Coordinator, which meant I had a first-hand view into the whole process; not just the design, but the strategic ways we collect, use, and present the information gathered from the work we do across the year. My favourite part was diving into the qualitative data. for some context We surveyed 1,869 students this year and ran a thematic analysis on their feedback. The themes that emerged weren't just interesting, they were moving. 'Overcoming awkwardness' was one of the strongest theme. Students reported expecting sessions to be "awkward" or "embarrassing," but left feeling safe enough to take part. Our facilitators were mentioned positively over 100 times. One Year 7 student put it perfectly: "It was worrying at first but now I am calm and okay with talking about the changes during puberty." But what really struck me was how the themes connected. Young people weren't just absorbing information they were leaving with practical life skills, talking about boundaries and confidence in their everyday relationships. And they were moving beyond rules into genuine reflection on ethics, care, and respect for themselves and others. As the report says, "qualitative is queen." The numbers show our scale, but these insights show our depth. What makes our impact report stand out is not just how beautiful it looks, but how honest and reflective we are as a team. So please take a moment to enjoy the visuals, the pictures and art, and engage with the work we've completed and reflected on over the past year. link to all our resources and Impact report can be found on the Split Banana Education C.I.C. website : splitbanana.co.uk
📢 Our Impact Report 2025/26 is here! 📢 We can’t quite believe that, since starting in 2019, we’ve now reached over 110,000 young people! A huge thank you to every student, educator, school, funder and supporter who has helped make our work possible. We’re so lucky to have such an amazing team and such brilliant supporters behind us, we couldn’t do it without you! 🍌 splitbanana.co.uk
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🍌 In case you forgot, it’s Sexual Health Week! ❤️🔥 Have you ever wondered how much we can trust the reproductive health advice we see on social media? Former Split Banana Youth Advisor Muminah explores the myths and misinformation around periods, hormones, cycle-syncing, diet and contraception, while sharing practical tips for finding reliable health information online. With so much advice about sex and relationships on social media, it’s important to pause, check our sources and take what we see with a pinch of salt, especially when it comes from non-qualified content creators. Read Muminah’s blog at https://lnkd.in/e2w8snj4 Part of Brook's 2026 #SexualHealthWeek: "Let's Connect!"
