Support Bully Free Zone's "Follow The Heard" Campaign!

Bully Free Zone have kicked off a new campaign called "Follow The Heard" and I thought I should tell you guys all about this.

The message behind this campaign is that basically do not suffer in silence, tell someone if you are being bullied. You tell someone what's going on, and you keep telling people until it gets sorted out.

What Bully Free Zone want is for people to tell them about experiences of being bullied where it has helped to tell someone to get it sorted...or maybe you were the bully and you realized that you have a problem and that you got help. Maybe you have a poem about your experiences that you would like to share....whatever you have it can all help in the fight against bullying.

For more details on what Bully Free Zone are doing go to
http://bullyfreeteam.blogspot.com/2009/07/as-part-of-bully-free-zones-follow.html and if you think you have something that can contribute towards this brilliant campaign then please email Kev Walsh on office@bullyfreezone.co.uk as soon as you can.

Please, if there is anything to you can do to help, then get in touch....bullying really needs to be reduced greatly...it's unlikey that bullying will ever be totally irradicated, but just stopping it little by little is nothing but a good thing.

Percy the Pigeon

People who have been following me on Twitter (if you have a twitter account, my username is @yamerias but you can look at my tweets by going to http://www.twitter.com/yamerias if you are not) may have noticed that I follow and retweet someone called @PercythePigeon (again, if you are not a Twitter member, you can look at this member's tweets by going to http://www.twitter.com/PercythePigeon). I thought it might be nice to give a bit of an explination about Percy and the cause that he supports.

Percy The Pigeon is a character who is in the book Matty-boy and the Secret Pigeon Racket written by a talented authoress called Anita Hunt. The story is about a Matty-boy, a boy who lives with foster parents, and he finds a raggedy bundle on the window ledge of what is soon to be his bedroom. The "raggedy bundle" is Percy, who helps him deal with bullying.

I think this is a brilliant idea and as well as the book there is a campaign including Percy on Twitter, he has his own website and there is even a knitting pattern so you can knit your own Percy toy...how cool is that?

Anyways, if you are interested at looking at the Percy The Pigeon site, go to http://www.areyoubeingbullied.com/ and have a look at the ideas behind the story (and you could buy a copy of the book and other various items from thier online store)...or you could download the knitting pattern for Percy The Pigeon!

I fully support this campaign and it is very close to my heart...I was bullied a lot as a child, by kids and also by my father and I felt like there was nobody to turn to and it really got to me a lot, I see now if I had maybe spoken to one of my teachers or even one of my neighbours things could have been so different.

Please have a look at this website, and please support Percy the Pigeon.