Rubies supports girls across Middlesbrough and neighbouring Redcar & Cleveland through courses, workshops and confidence building activities, as well as bespoke programmes for schools and therapeutic support for individuals.
Rubies’ Voices from the Frontline grant will fund a campaign on girls’ social media safety. The campaign will focus on requests for explicit images, and will include making a film to show in local schools and youth settings.
Rubies was selected as this year’s recipient of the Miranda Bertram Award.This is an annual award made through Rosa’s Voices from the Frontline programme, given to an organisation whose work Miranda would have loved to support.
Says CEO Liz Edwards:
“We’re delighted to receive a ‘Voices from the Frontline’ grant and will be using it to give teenage girls an opportunity to speak out about real issues that affect their everyday lives and create safe spaces where girls are listened to. We’ll then work with a local film company to produce a campaign video that highlights how girls feel when they’re asked for explicit images by boys and men.
It’s an honour to be chosen for the Miranda Bertram Award and we hope that the film will continue her work bringing a feminist perspective to a new generation of girls and young women.”
Find out more about the 2026 Voices from the Frontline grants
Photo: Rubies girls group members in Middlesbrough. Rubies/Janette Ruddock