Charity

Hair and Beauty students across Kirklees College’s Dewsbury and Huddersfield Centres have, through a week of fundraising events, raised £909.32 for Kirkwood Hospice, the local charity, that provides outstanding care for people with life-limiting illnesses, their families and loved ones. Kirkwood Hospice is close to the hearts of many students …

Millennium Point Charitable Trust has announced donations of more than £4.8 million to science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) projects across the West Midlands last year. All of the commercial activity that takes place in the 46,450 square metre landmark Millennium Point building feeds back into the charity, enabling it …

The NSPCC is encouraging schools across the UK to take part in their ‘Number Day’ on Friday 1st February, 2019. Number Day is a maths-inspired fundraising day for children in nursery right through to secondary school,with free downloadable activities suitable for all ages and abilities. Some of these fun curriculum-based …

A Conservative MP has returned to school in Kirkby to help broaden primary pupils’ jobs horizons and boost their career aspirations for their future. Gillian Keegan, who grew up in Knowsley and is now MP for Chichester, visited Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School in Moorfield, Tower Hill, Kirkby, …

Primary schools across the country yet to receive an NSPCC ‘Speak out. Stay safe.’ assembly are being urged to sign-up for a visit. Delivered at no cost to schools, the programme could prevent pupils suffering from abuse or neglect. Since 2011 the children’s charity has been to almost 80% of …

Bookings open on the 5th September for the world’s largest, free, youth film festival, a UK-wide, education focused event for schools, colleges, youth leaders and home educators: www.intofilm.org/festival. Taking place from November 7-23, the sixth Into Film Festival offers 2600 free screenings and events, with teaching resources, for 5-19 year-olds, …

The Department for Education has launched proposals to make health education compulsory in primary and secondary schools. The proposals aim to ensure children are taught about mental wellbeing and how to recognise when they and others are struggling with mental health and how to respond. Welcoming the news, Beat’s Director …

Children from primary schools in Merseyside have been experiencing a unique safari-themed outdoor learning adventure as part of a special project to get more children excited about reading whilst encouraging them to learn and connect to the natural world around them. The initiative was organised as part of a collaborative …

Shakespeare Schools Foundation (SSF) has been awarded the Grant for Young Artists in the 30th anniversary year of The Praemium Imperiale. Awarded by the Imperial Family of Japan on behalf of the Japan Arts Association, the global arts prize includes five categories not covered by The Nobel Prize – painting, …

The Autism Education Trust (AET) is set to help more autistic children and young people get the education they deserve following a two-year extension of its contract with the Department for Education (DfE). The Trust, which recently reached its 10th anniversary, is the leading autism training and support programme for …