23/04/2026
It’s now our 32nd anniversary ❤️
The years have been full of supporting survivors, research and running our violence prevention program in schools and other settings.
We’ve held lots of lovely party’s, ran groups and lunch clubs where we’ve shared BSL (British Sign Language) knowledge and learnt to cook and more.
We will be celebrating this Saturday with a party in Forfar near our new office space 🎂🎉
Eighteen and under has now had it's 30th anniversary, last week on the 23rd of April 🥳 .
Unfortunately due to poor time keeping (by myself) this social media post about it is only now being posted 🙈.
We look forward to celebrating the anniversary next month in our centre but for now here are some words from our founder, Laurie!
30 years ago today, 18u first started life. It was called the Young Women's Project back then and it only had one part time worker, a corner of a desk in the r**e crisis office, a phone and a handful of volunteers. Our moto back then was that if we only ever helped one young person then it would all be worth it. It has been hard work but it has been worth it. In 2001 we changed our name and became known as Eighteen And Under.
Since 1994, we have helped many thousands of young people in many different ways. We have provided face to face support, activity groups, violence is preventable sessions, shadow management groups and lunch clubs. We have accompanied young people to different agencies, provided advocacy and set up this online Forum. We have worked in many nurseries, schools and communities teaching young children and teenagers about personal safety and abuse prevention. Our abuse prevention programmes have been translated into many languages and tried out in many different countries around the world. Soon our abuse prevention programme will be going into Palestine, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan thanks to the volunteers who work away behind the scenes translating and culturally adapting resources, holding meetings and developing partnerships.
