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• 13 May 2021

Year 8 students shine in social leadership project

A group of Y8 students from our Aldridge family of schools recently took part in our first Aldridge Foundation Social Leadership Bootcamp.

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• 22 April 2021

Mentors and role models are more important than ever – can you help?

A quarter of children from the poorest backgrounds think ‘people like me don’t succeed’*. We can’t let young people think this way.

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• News
• 19 April 2021

Aldridge Junior Signature Art Prize finalists announced

The prize, now in its second year, gives young people the opportunity to enter their work into a professional exhibition.

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• News
• 26 March 2021

Aldridge Foundation’s latest ‘World of Work Week’: helping bridge the gap between schools and business

With most organisations forced to cancel work experience and internships during the pandemic, the Aldridge Foundation has been hosting a series of online careers events, connecting students with people from different industries.

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• News
• 17 March 2021

Introducing the Aldridge Foundation Youth Advisory Committee

We’re delighted to introduce the eight pupils chosen as Aldridge Foundation Ambassadors.

• News
• 12 February 2021

Why sport matters

Sports can not only improve young people’s health and wellbeing, they can help develop important life and employability skills – and, vitally, a feeling of ‘anything is possible’.

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• 11 February 2021

Change is coming

A poem that Year 8 students from different schools collectively and spontaneously created live on Zoom during today’s Social Leadership Bootcamp.

• News
• 1 February 2021

Catch-up tutoring can’t wait – we owe it to the most disadvantaged children to act now

New research shows poorer pupils struggling more than ever in the second round of school closures.

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• 5 January 2021

The Aldridge Foundation’s response to the new national lockdown

While Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement, on Monday 4 January, will not have come as a shock, it adds fresh urgency to our campaign to help young people already at a disadvantage.

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• 18 December 2020

Foundation supports Catch-Up Academy to help children whose education has been disproportionately affected by Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on so many people across the UK but millions of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds have been disproportionately affected.