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Durex news article - release date: 03/06/2011

The Catalyst results are in...

Our Catalyst FYI Quiz and Catalyst Web Award received large numbers of top quality entrants, but each could only have one winner. If you entered and are eagerly awaiting the results, you’ll be pleased to know that the wait is over.

The judging of the FYI Quiz and Web Award entries is now complete and the winners have been selected:

Our Catalyst FYI Quiz winner is... Max Heywood, sex and relationships education (SRE) officer at Medway Sexual health

www.bishuk.com

Congratulations to Max Heywood who achieved 100% in the quiz and went on to win the tiebreaker round. He has won an FPA trainer for the day for himself and for his colleagues and we spoke to him about how he hopes to benefit from the training:

As a SRE officer working with young people, Mr Heywood has chosen the FPA course 'Fantasy versus Reality' for his training day, which trains HCPs to understand and respond to the impact of pornography on young people's SRE education. He feels that "learning how to tackle this problem and finding new solutions from the FPA trainer" will assist him and his colleagues in developing their current SRE work with young people.

Providing HCPs working in sexual health with the opportunity to reflect on how they might approach complex issues, was one of the main aims of the FYI Quiz. By helping everyone to identify their strengths and realise possible training needs, we can spread the message of good sexual health even more successfully.

With this aim in mind, our Catalyst Web Award was set up to reward the best website designed to communicate a sexual health message. The Web Award was well supported and it was very difficult to select a winner out of many close contenders.

Our Catalyst Web Award winner is... bishUK.com, developed by Justin Hancock

www.bishuk.com

Congratulations to Justin Hancock who receives £1000 to further develop his website, BishUK.com - which was designed to offer young people thinking about having sex for the first time holistic information on sex and relationships.

Justin Hancock created bishUK.com to provide young people with a comprehensive site for sex and relationship education and it was judged by the panel to do just that because:

  • Despite having very limited resources, the site offers honest, humorous and practical advice

  • The judges deemed it to be interesting, engaging and informative

  • An excellent effort has been made to offer a site that the audience can appreciate in many ways by using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to offer advice and conduct polls

  • It even offers young people the chance to download key sexual health information for their Smartphones

At DurexHCP.co.uk we are delighted with the success of the Catalyst FYI Quiz and Catalyst Web Award because, by encouraging excellent websites, awareness of sexual health issues and convenient access to relevant information, we are helping to ensure more people are given the opportunity to maintain and achieve good sexual health.