The Kindness in Education Awards celebrate, inspire and encourage projects related to kindness and compassion in schools, colleges and universities!
See the 2023 winners below!
The 2023 Kindness in Education Awards were kindly sponsored by Agar Management Consultancy and Cheadle Hulme School!
Agar Management Consultancy
Agar aims to enable people and businesses to fulfil their potential – to be their ‘brilliant best’! They plan, implement, support and evaluate the action necessary to achieve individual, team and organisational goals. https://www.agarmanagementconsultancy.co.uk/
Cheadle Hulme School
Cheadle Hulme’s mission is to to provide a dynamic, holistic education within an inclusive, values driven environment, consistent with the School’s foundation. Compassion and Kindness is one of their core values so it’s fitting that they are supporting KindFest2023 www.cheadlehulmeschool.co.uk
Kaplan International Pathways, Dr Victoria Wilson-Crane, Kindness in Curriculum
With founder of the Kindness Factory Kath Koschel, have embedded a programme of kindness into their international student community. The kindness curriculum features 12 themes: Positivity; Compassion; Gratitude; Mindfulness; Perspective; Collaboration; Humour; Honesty; Trust; Self Confidence; Humility; Empathy. Helping international students, often under the age of 18, to survive and thrive in a new environment. Staff are now using the learning materials – spreading kindness and creating an ethos of kindness and a shared language of compassion and support. https://thekindnesscurriculum.com/
Fred Featham, Antibullying Campaign
Starting a revolution of kindness in the classroom! Working with a team of volunteers, aged 9-17 year olds to organise and implement innovative projects through literature, drama, sport, poetry for instance to combat bullying and celebrate kindness. Fundraising for children’s charities as a collective endeavour and demonstration of kindness.
Team Bertho
A global platform that publicises stories from a diverse demographic of people, providing essentials for sustainable living all around the globe. Online content includes a podcast. The team published ‘Fuelling Hope’ in 2020, a compilation of anecdotes and voices from around the globe, stories of hope which spread love and kindness.
@teambertho
Brunel University, HAPPY to Chat
Happy to chat which combats social isolation and loneliness in the student community. An inspirational programme that connects students from diverse backgrounds through the power of conversation and the creation of a ‘chatty campus’. Connecting students and making the community and campus happy by encouraging conversation, through which different support mechanisms can be channelled. Happy Chatty People!!
Professor Paul Fieldsend Danks, University Arts Plymouth
Celebrating Paul’s leadership of a strategy for impactful social justice and real change through people, culture and approach. Authenticity, fulfillment and kindness are indexical qualities in the process of thinking, making and living. Core business of: Learning through generosity and a human centred approach. Kindness in pedagogy in shaping human lives. Examples include: Daily acts of kindness to support Trevi – a charity that supports women in kindness.
https://www.aup.ac.uk/people/paul-fieldsend-danks
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Pentacell
Rachel Gould, Senior Counsellor and Wellbeing Manager; Ford Hickson, Associate Professor and Programme Director for MSc Public Health; Tom Osbourne, LSHTM alumnus and former Pentacell facilitator; Chris Conneely, Head of Alumni Relations and Regular Giving; Meron Berhanu, Alumni Engagement Officer Social boost for students starting a new year. To make connections and to encourage kindness. All incoming students are allocated to a group of five students. They meet weekly for 5 weeks and share their ideas for connection and kindness. The groups help create connection, combat loneliness, and contribute to the LSHTM community of kindness.