This course sought to encourage students to develop a greater sense of self-respect as well as consider how they could respect other people involved in their lives. All students and group leaders on the course agreed to do The Big Cold Turkey Programme as a way of developing self-respect. The Foundation provided Big Cold Turkey packs and the posters, which were placed around the school asking for volunteers willing to give up a habit or addiction for 42 days. We suggested a variety of things that could be given up ranging from smoking, drugs, truancy, biting nails, being on school report, over eating and not eating enough. Twelve students came forward and asked to join a group to help them with their particular addiction or habit. The youth workers encouraged the young people to consider that if they could gain control over one habit or addiction they could take control of other areas of their lives that they wanted to change. At the end of the course five students and staff had completed 42 days with another five people still continuing. (During the course some people gave in to their habit or addiction but they were encouraged to start again. The definition of failure was not giving in to temptation but not trying again).

We might support a local charity whose work is synonymous with our philosophy of giving hope. Family Space is a charity local to The Big Cold Turkey Foundation offices. Family Space supports families in disadvantaged areas.