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National charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People is offering free educational fundraising packs to schools and groups across the UK, to educate children about deafness and encourage schools to raise funds for the Charity. Each free school pack contains fun, interactive and educational activities. These include teaching children to spell …

Brake, the road safety charity, and webuyanycar.com have raised more than £20,000 through the joint initiative, Giant Walking Bus. These funds will be directly invested by the charity into future campaigns designed to make the roads safer for the UK’s most vulnerable users, and used to support their work with …

The RAF Association, in association with National Schools Partnership, is launching High Values, a free educational programme aimed at children aged 7-12. High Values will present teachers with the opportunity to teach their pupils about four core values that are crucial to the RAF and the RAF Association: Respect, Integrity, …

Thousands of children in primary schools will be hosting the UK’s first Fairtrade Bakesale Party, to celebrate Fairtrade’s 20th birthday this autumn. The campaign has been launched by the Fairtrade Foundation, and aims to help children learn about global issues whilst raising money to increase the impact of Fairtrade. Using …

The leading education charity Future First is calling on former state school students to sign up as governors at their old school amid increasing concern at the national shortage of adults volunteering to take up the posts. Up to a quarter of school governor positions are vacant in some rural and …

As school leavers prepare to look after themselves at University for the first time from next week, new research from Sainsbury’s reveals that 17 and 18 year-olds have a Cooking Age of just 12 years old.  The first of its kind classification, similar to the national Reading Age, has been …

In October, celebrities and sports stars will join everyone from nurses to lawyers and plumbers to web designers in going back to school to support current state school students. They’re joining the national campaign by the leading education charity Future First, Back to School Week, between 13th to 18th October, which will highlight the …

Britain’s biggest newspaper has teamed up with some of the most popular children’s authors and entertainers to introduce a new weekly feature encouraging parents to read with their children. Specially written ten-minute stories from authors including David Walliams (Mr Stink), former children¹s laureate Michael Morpurgo (War Horse) and Jeff Kinney …

The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) has launched a new, free First World War learning resource, sponsored by Royal Mail, supporting learning across the curriculum for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3. Last Post: The Postal Service in the First World War, explores the role of the General Post …

Leading international development charity Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) is sending volunteer teacher trainers to Myanmar throughout August and September, marking a historic moment between Myanmar and the UK. The initiative is being undertaken in partnership with the British Council, as part of a British Council -DFID funded project, to help …