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A SATURDAY night line-up that promised music from girl-band Blush UK, the chance to have photos taken by fashion photographer Ric Bower, and free fair-trade chocolate proved a real draw at the Caris Girls Night In launch party.

Over 300 girls attended the launch of the glossy new mag for girls aged 11-16, at the Greenbelt music and arts festival over the August bank holiday weekend.

“I really enjoyed the evening and thought it was really fun getting my photo taken,” said Crichelle Brice, 12. “It was great to see everyone wearing pink Caris stickers, badges and t-shirts everywhere you went throughout the festival.”

A competition to transform a Caris t-shirt saw ten groups of girls get up on stage during the event to show off their creative skills. Girls from the audience also shared their embarrassing moments and a strawberry-lace-eating competition.

Daisy Mouatt, 12, was part of one of the two winning teams in the Caris t-shirt competition. “We spent all day Saturday working on it, so we were really excited to win. Our t-shirt was kind of half-punk, half-girly.

“Everyone screamed and cheered for us to win. But my mum screamed when she found out that we’d won a month’s worth of Divine chocolate.”

The Caris Girls Night In was hosted by Rachel Gardner, a schools’ worker in Harrow and the creative director of Romance Academy, and by Jude Adam from the Greenbelt team. They rounded the evening off by giving out goodie bags and praying for the new magazine.

Over the weekend about 7,500 copies of Caris were given out, and many Greenbelters grabbed copies to take back to their schools, churches and youth groups.

Register for details of how to hold your own ‘Girls Night In’ party now by clicking here!

Readers’ panel

Thanks to those who’ve so far applied to join the readers panel. We had hoped to get this organized before the launch, but it’s been a bit hectic getting Caris ready and answering all our press calls (ha, ha)! Please keep sending us your ideas, thoughts and real life stories though – we love hearing your views and stories. We’ll get back to you about the readers’ panel very soon. We hope that’s ok!

p.s. Remember, keep letting your friends know about Caris!