Salamanca Group is proud to share the announcement of its chosen charity, Bounce Forward has agreed a new and far-reaching partnership with the Harry Kane Foundation.
The partnership will provide free psychological fitness training and educational resources, designed to nurture and build mental resilience, and emotional wellbeing, proven to have positive impact. These resources will be available in schools, workplaces, and to a broader audience through Harry’s influence, platforms, and networks, with the goal of promoting positive mental health across all generations.
To date Bounce Forward has onboarded over 175 member schools, reached 14,000+ parents, and is working with the Harry Kane Foundation with the ambition to enable every primary and secondary school in the country to access its teaching resources free of charge and for it to become embedded into the core curriculum for long term impact.
To kick things off, 17 schools across nine regions of England are benefiting from the Harry Kane Foundation’s support by equipping them with Healthy Minds teaching resources that feature bespoke content co-authored by Harry and his wife, Kate Kane.
Bounce Forward CEO, Lucy Bailey, commented: “When it comes to mental health, prevention is so much better than cure, and our psychological health is as important as physical health. It is increasingly challenging to navigate our changing and complex world. For adults it is hard, for children it is even harder. We need to teach our children, as part of their core education, and there is no better way than with Healthy Minds. Teaching our children about the brain, the role of positive emotions and the value of optimism and human connection is vital learning for the world we live in. We need to help young people not only to deal well with the setbacks they will inevitably face throughout life, but also equip them to embrace opportunities around them. Its impressive evidence base includes improving attendance, which is of growing concern for schools reducing fixed term exclusions as well as improving health and wellbeing outcomes.”
Harry Kane commented: “I’m proud of the work my foundation has achieved over the last year and am excited that we will extend our reach and impact through a new partnership with Bounce Forward. Kate and I have worked closely with Bounce Forward to strengthen their curriculum. Together we have designed lesson plans that support young people to explore how resilience can help them recover from setbacks, deal with challenges and make the most of opportunities. We are supporting Bounce Forward because they are experts in their field and have developed evidence-based resources that align perfectly with our aim of promoting the benefits of positive self-belief and the connection between physical and mental health.”
Bounce Forward & Salamanca Group Chairman, Martin Bellamy, commented: “The Salamanca team and board members that have supported Bounce Forward since 2019 are incredibly proud of the positive trajectory of the charity. Their commitment to improving not just the mental health of young people across the UK but also shifting the public discourse around it is a commendable cause, second to none.
The Bounce Forward team have consistently made a huge impact in the education space relative to the size of their operations. This partnership with the Harry Kane Foundation is the latest in a series of partnerships with outstanding nationally recognisable brands that see the value in their cause. We expect this partnership to further spread the reach of the amazing work that Bounce Forward does.”
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About Bounce Forward
Bounce Forward is a national charity delivering inspiring and practical train the trainer programmes to develop the next generations of psychologically fit children who will become psychologically fit adults. Our training programmes engage teachers, parents and others around children and young people to develop psychological fitness. Psychological fitness combines mental resilience and emotional wellbeing, both key attributes needed for success in the 21st century. We provide a framework of skills, based on a development model so that young people are better placed to face the complexities of tomorrow and make the most of their future. Our core offer is a five-year, evidence-based curriculum that can be embedded in the secondary school offer. Our impact and passion go beyond the delivery of training and teaching resources – at the heart of our work is research and we are driving a movement to influence UK policy around education to form a positive system of change. (Charity number: 1170591)
Harry Kane Foundation (“HKF”) launched in October 2022 with the aim of transforming a generation’s thinking about mental health. The purpose of HKF is to help normalise conversations around mental health, promote positive habits that support mental health, tackle stigma and provide practical support.
HKF works with brands, charities, experts and strategic partners to leverage Harry and Kate’s profile, platforms and networks to inspire, educate and empower audiences of all ages.
HKF fundraises through Harry’s personal contributions, strategic partnerships, donations and fundraising activities and events. 100% of public donations will directly impact mental health charities, transformational projects and vital research supported by the HKF.
HKF is a restricted fund registered under the auspices of Prism The Gift Fund, charity number: 1099682.