Stalking Awareness Week 2026

This week (20th-24th April) is Stalking Awareness Week. The week aims to make people more aware of what stalking is and how it might affect a victim/survivor. There are many myths and misconceptions about what stalking looks like and who perpetrates it. We hope this blog helps to shed some light on the issue and combats some of the myths and misconceptions by answering some frequently asked questions.

February update from our Sexual Violence Prevention Worker

Although February is a short month plus the schools in Moray being off for the half-term break, I have still been wonderfully busy delivering Sexual Violence Prevention workshops in Milne’s High School, Elgin Academy, Forres Academy and UHI Moray. Our themes for the workshops have been a combination of Consent, Power, Understanding Sexual Violence, Pornography and Gender-based Violence.

As always, the SVPP workshops are tailored to age and stage of our young people and once again, it has been an honour to facilitate some great conversations around their knowledge, opinions and understanding of these interesting topics.

January Update from our Sexual Violence Prevention Worker

Happy New Year and best wishes for a happy and healthy 2026!

This month has been such a changeable time due to the spell of winter weather at the start of the new year, which ultimately affected Sexual Violence Prevention Workshop delivery. Student safety was paramount and I am delighted that those workshops were able to be rescheduled; thank you to Elgin Academy and UHI Moray for working through new delivery dates.

As always, it has been a joy to work with students and staff within Elgin Academy for a new round of workshops for a number of S1 and S4 participants. I also had the opportunity to be present at a lunch time meeting for those young people interested in learning more about the Equally Safe At School strategy (please click the link to be directed to the ESAS website for further information).

December Update from our Sexual Violence Prevention Worker

The Sexual Violence Prevention Programme workshops have been continuing this month, as we move ever closer to the end of term. It was especially joyful to be in classrooms during November as more Autumnal artwork was being displayed. One teacher had a giant homemade spider in their room!

November was also the month in which our Reclaim The Night March was held in Elgin to mark the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the start of the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence. It was a wonderful opportunity to bring this theme into several workshops. Giving the young people of Moray a voice and platform to strive towards the end of Gender-based Violence (GBV) in their communities is an extremely important aspect of my work in schools.

I have also been beavering away developing a PowerPoint presentation for a series of bespoke workshops for UHI Moray/Moireibh around GBV in the New Year, and I am looking forward to delivering this over all three campus sites!

December sees the start of the wind-down for 2025 giving me opportunities for training and development of my knowledge, whilst finishing up one or two workshops in school before a very busy start for January 2026!

I’d like to wish you a safe, healthy and happy holiday period.

The Sexual Violence Prevention Programme runs throughout the year during a High School’s PSE lessons. For more information about the programme, please visit our website.