Top CyberMentor Tim@FEDZ writes up his press pack for BBC's Newsround
I am a CyberMentor for Beatbullying and was invited to meet Ed Balls and N-Dubz in London at the launch of Anti-Bullying Week.
Five months ago some members of the charity Beatbullying came to my school in Cambridge to train me and 24 other young people to become CyberMentors. CyberMentors is a website for young people to help other young people.
It was a really interesting training that meant afterwards I could talk to people about their problems and think of ways to help them with stuff like bullying and general un-happiness. After mentoring lots of people, I was asked by Beatbullying to go to the Maida Vale Studios in London and meet Ed
Balls who is Secretary of State for Children, Schools & Families, and N-Dubz who are a popular hip hop band. N-Dubz have recorded the Beatbullying Anthem "R U Cyber Safe?"
At the studios I got to meet many people from Beatbullying, and some other young people who had been involved in making some other music to promote CyberMentors. Then a car drove up with Ed Balls inside - Emma-Jane, the CEO of Beatbullying and I greeted him, and then I got to talk to him and answer some of his questions about CyberMentors - it was really interesting. I hope his interest in CyberMentors and Beatbullying will really help us to get more money for the project and so make bullying less of a problem in schools and everywhere.
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