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Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Anti-bullying campaign on the move

Young women's winning poster on buses for Anti-Bullying Week

Young women are teaming up with Stagecoach Northampton and Yorkshire to spread anti-bullying messages across the region this month with a poster campaign.

Stagecoach will display anti-bullying posters on its services in Northampton and Yorkshire for YWCA.The young women's poster design was picked out from more than 100 entries in YWCA's national competition.

It will feature positive messages to help prevent bullying and will appear on Stagecoach buses from 16 to 22 November to mark Anti-Bullying Week.

Joyce Foster, YWCA's head of innovation, said: "The young women who use our services developed and led this innovative project to promote the Anti-Bullying Awareness Campaign; they fully understand that bullying happens in many places. We are delighted that Stagecoach buses have partnered with YWCA to display these posters and spread the young women's message far and wide using an environmentally sound approach"

Adam Rideout, Marketing Manger for Stagecoach said: "By providing free advertising space for this campaign we hope to take the YWCA's anti-bullying awareness campaign thousands of miles across the region.

"Community support is a key priority for Stagecoach and we are delighted to be working with the YWCA to promote positive messages to help prevent bullying."