Charities

Since 2009, Georgia has been the patron of Straight Talking: a peer education organisation set up as a registered charity in 1998 by Hilary Pannack. The aim of the organisation is to educate young people through talks at schools and training programmes about teenage pregnancy and teenage parenting.

For the last twelve years, Straight Talking has expanded and now employs approximately 85 teenage mothers and young fathers. All of these young people show a very high commitment to the work and without them, the charity could not deliver the successful work in schools.

"The hardest challenge I face is the taboo and stigma that is still attached to being a young parent. The attitude from certain areas of society towards young, single mothers is: ‘You made your bed, now lie in it’."

Straight Talking is based in New Malden, Surrey. Courses are currently delivered in the London Boroughs of Kingston, Richmond, Hounslow and Barking & Dagenham as well as Birmingham and Somerset.

Their mission statement:

Straight Talking exists to reduce the high rates of teenage pregnancy in the UK and to support and empower teenage parents, so that young people achieve economic wellbeing and quality of life.

On the website, Georgia talks about the taboos and stigmas that are still attached to teenage pregnancies. "In her own words" sums up the challenges attached to being a teenage parent and can be downloaded in PDF format from the Straight Talking Website.