Meet Future Foundations at Character Conferences over the coming month

Earlier this year Future Foundations were named Regional winners of the Government’s inaugural Character Awards. Whilst it’s always exciting to be recognised for your achievements, the true value of this award runs far deeper. The award has already been put to good use with the creation a Global Social Leaders bursary to enable students from 7 schools to take part in our flagship leadership programme (more on this soon!) and launch GSL Societies across the country.

The Character Awards have also elevated the very best examples of character education onto a national platform and paved the way for organisations at the forefront of developing theory and practice to help other educators and influence policy.

These awards were the brainchild of Nicky Morgan MP, for whom character education is ‘vital for preparing young people for modern life in Britain’. As Morgan put it in her speech to Conservative party conference in 2014:

Recently reinstated as Secretary of State for Education this agenda is now set to play an even greater role in the government’s education policy for the coming 4 years as one of the six key priorities of the department. Character education is being increasingly talked about by politicians, teachers, employers and parents across the world as they question whether teaching virtues such as honesty, self-control, fairness, resilience and respect can be part of the solution to the challenges facing society. Here at Future Foundations we have seen first-hand the incredible results for young people when focus value is placed on developing these traits.  Our over-arching goal to help create a generation of inspirational, confident, optimistic young people who are leaders in their lives and within society can and is only achieved through transformative character building programmes.

We’re excited to have been invited to present what we have learnt over the past 10 years at upcoming Character Conferences, alongside other winners of the Character Award. This will be an excellent opportunity to share best practice, meet educators and explore how we can enable more schools to make character education a priority for their students. Details of the conferences, which are open to teaching staff, can be found below.