Shelf (organization)

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Shelf
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Formation2007 (2007)
Type Voluntary association
Purpose Sexual health education
Location
Region served
United Kingdom
Founders
Andrew Aistrup, Charley Genever, Ciara McElderry, Abigail Sykes
Website www.shelf.org.uk

Shelf is a voluntary organisation created with the aim of bringing new levels of sexual health awareness to young people of the United Kingdom. It is unique in that it was founded by four Year 10 students of Peterborough in April 2007 and is still currently owned and operated by them. It was founded with support from members of Peterborough City Council and the Peterborough NHS Primary Care Trust. Shelf runs via a website and distributed brochures containing information on sexual health and links to local support organisations.

United Kingdom Country in Europe

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a sovereign country located off the north-western coast of the European mainland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state, the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south and the Celtic Sea to the south-west, giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world. The Irish Sea separates Great Britain and Ireland. The United Kingdom's 242,500 square kilometres (93,600 sq mi) were home to an estimated 66.0 million inhabitants in 2017.

Peterborough City and unitary authority in England

Peterborough is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 196,640 in 2015. Historically part of Northamptonshire, it is 76 miles (122 km) north of London, on the River Nene which flows into the North Sea 30 miles (48 km) to the north-east. The railway station is an important stop on the East Coast Main Line between London and Edinburgh. The city is also 70 miles (110 km) east of Birmingham, 38 miles (61 km) east of Leicester, 81 miles (130 km) south of Kingston upon Hull and 65 miles (105 km) west of Norwich.

National Health Service (England) publicly funded system of healthcare in England

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History

Shelf was originally created as a business idea to be entered into "The Big Deal", a national business and enterprise challenge run by the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY). The competition ran over 10 weeks, and required groups of students (aided by a mentor) to produce a business idea by completing weekly tasks. Over 30 groups entered the competition and then presented their ideas to a panel of judges, in the style of the BBC’s 'Dragons' Den', at an event held at Aston Business School in July 2007. The four best groups then presented their ideas again to all competitors and judges. "Team Joey"–named after the character in the US TV sitcom Friends –presented Shelf and won the competition.

National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth

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The prize was a fully funded five-star trip to New York City which took place in October 2007. As well as sightseeing, the students (accompanied by two teachers and a member of staff from the University of Warwick, England) visited the Goldman Sachs offices, where they presented their ideas once more. Staff were "said to have been extremely impressed". [1]

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An additional prize of the funding necessary to start up the enterprise was personally offered by Glenn Earle (chief managing director of Goldman Sachs Investment Bank Europe).

Service launch

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Shelf website

In December 2008, Shelf established links with members of the Peterborough NHS Primary Care Trust (CaSH), [2] Peterborough City Council and DrinkSense to discuss how best the services could be implemented and run alongside what was already in place in Peterborough.

In January 2008, a full trial of the website was run for Year 11 students (aged 15–16) in Jack Hunt School, from which feedback was ascertained, aiding the development of the website.

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Jack Hunt School is a co-educational foundation, comprehensive school and specialist language and sports college in Netherton in the city of Peterborough in the United Kingdom. Students are aged 11 to 18. Refurbishment of the premises, as part of the Peterborough Secondary School Review, increased the capacity by one form of entry in each year group, with a similar increase in the sixth form, amounting to around an extra 175 places.

Following further funding from The Youth Bank [3] of Peterborough City Council, the website was officially launched on 19 March 2008. A publicised media event was held inviting representatives from across the UK. [4] Local BBC News and magazine coverage later followed. [5]

Redesign

An updated, newly designed multi-platform version of Shelf (2.0) went live on 18 July 2009 after 3 months of development and contribution by and from students.

Search facilities, local service links and embedded content were added to leave room for future development and expansion.

Plans for future development include targeting higher and further education students, as well as young people under the age of 25.

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References

  1. New York trip is just the business - Peterborough Today
  2. CaSH Services - Shelf Link Archived 5 May 2013 at Archive.today
  3. Peterborough City Council - Youth Bank
  4. Launch Event Article - Jack Hunt School Archived 2 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Voogd, Caroline; Aistrup, Andrew; Genever, Charley; McElderry, Ciara; Sykes, Abigail (2009), "Sexual health education by young people for young people", British Journal of School Nursing, 4 (2): 92