As Yellow Door celebrates 40 incredible years, we’re also proud to mark 25 years of the STAR Project, a quarter-century of empowering young people to challenge abuse, inequality, and harmful gender norms. From its early days to now, STAR has supported thousands of young people to build safer, healthier relationships and become powerful voices for change.
Over the years, we’ve seen huge shifts in how Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) is delivered in schools. RSE includes consent, healthy relationships, gender identity, digital safety, respect, and emotional wellbeing – topics that STAR has proudly championed from the beginning. We’re thrilled to see these areas finally embedded in national guidance, with young people encouraged to think critically and speak up.
It’s been a busy and brilliant year so far for the STAR team, spreading powerful messages, building confidence, and making classrooms across the region a little bit braver, kinder, and louder against violence and inequality.
Highlights include:
- Peer HERoes sessions empowering boys aged 13–15 to challenge harmful gender norms and promote positive masculinity.
- VAWG-focused workshops helping young people understand consent, boundaries, grooming, and how to seek help.
- Tailored sessions for SEN groups and youth provisions, ensuring every young person has a safe, accessible space to learn.
- Exploring the future: from CPD-accredited training for staff to on-demand learning resources and innovative school partnerships.
Through it all, the STAR team remains committed to what matters most: helping young people feel safe, informed, and heard.
Here’s to 40 years of Yellow Door, 25 years of STAR, and a future filled with even more learning, awareness and empowerment.
You can read more about the STAR project here.