Kidsrights UK

Kids Rights in Action Week

5th – 8th May 2026

To celebrate National Children’s Day on 10th May, Kids Rights in Action Week invites pupils across the UK to explore their rights through fun, meaningful activities and sponsored challenges.

Each activity helps children understand their rights in a hands on way, while also raising vital funds to support KidsRights UK’s work with young people across the UK and beyond.

The week is designed to be super easy for teachers and exciting for pupils.

Your School’s Participation

Kids Rights in Action Week gives your school an easy, meaningful way to bring children’s rights to life - helping pupils understand their rights while making a real difference to young people across the UK and beyond.

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Impact on Pupils.

• Learn about their rights in a simple, relatable and empowering way.
• Grow in confidence and self-belief as they see their actions matter.
• Develop as global citizens.
• Become changemakers, knowing they are helping support other young people across the UK and beyond.

Impact on Your School

• A complete, ready-made rights education experience, strengthening PSHE, citizenship and values.
• A unifying week with real purpose, bringing pupils, staff and families together.
• A visible commitment to children’s rights.
• The opportunity to make an impact, as pupils help raise funds that support youth programmes.

Taking Part

Kids Rights in Action Week isn’t just an activity - it’s a powerful, rights‑focused learning experience that helps your pupils grow, while helping to give a platform to children and young people across the UK and beyond.

Kids Rights in Action Week gives you the flexibility to take part in a way that works best for your school.

Each activity links a specific children’s right with a simple, fun, curriculum friendly challenge that helps pupils understand their rights in an active, meaningful way.

The Fundraising Challenges

1. Right to Education: Sponsored Read - Every child (or class) pledges to read for a set time or number of pages.
2. Right to Education: Sponsored Read - Every child (or class) pledges to read for a set time or number of pages.
3. Right to Be Heard: Pupil Voice Posters - Pupils create persuasive posters or short speeches about a right they care about and display them in school or online.
4. Right to Safety: Safety Detectives  -Pupils become “Safety Detectives” for the day, spotting good safety habits around school and then presenting one simple improvement to help keep everyone safe.
5. Right to a Healthy Life: Move-A-Thon - Steps, laps, wheel friendly movement, or dance minutes — designed to include every ability.

There are no set rules — the goal is to encourage participation and build whole school awareness of children’s rights.

You can choose to:

• Focus on one challenge for the whole week.
• Explore a different right and challenge each day.
• Assign different rights and challenges to classes or year groups.

You’ll Receive:

• one complete pack (assembly, worksheets, posters, checklists, parent comms, video for pupils).
• support to run your fundraising through SuperKind, with optional class ages to create friendly competition.
• a Kids Rights in Action Week Certificate from KidsRights UK, and a fundraising certificate from SuperKind.

Your School's Pack

Upon creating your SuperKind Profile, you’ll receive your full Kids Rights in Action Week Pack, including:

• Assembly PowerPoint (10–12 slides)
  • What the week is
  • What children’s rights are
  • The five key rights
  • What challenges you’ll be taking on
  • How fundraising works
• Pupil Worksheets
• A3/A4 Poster Templates with customisable elements and QR codes
• Parent & Staff Email Copy for quick and clear communication
• Teacher Run‑Sheet & Checklist including risk checks and permissions
• A short, child-friendly video introducing pupils to children’s rights from Children United

Everything is fully plug‑and‑play to make it as simple and accessible as possible. All you need to do is choose whether to focus on one challenge for the whole week, or do one challenge per day/ class.

Ready to Get Started? Create your fundraising campaign on SuperKind below.

Who We Are

For over 20 years, KidsRights has been at the forefront of promoting and protecting children’s rights worldwide through research, advocacy, and action. At KidsRights UK, we empower young changemakers to share their stories, ideas and experiences to ensure their voices are heard when decisions are made.

KidsRights works to advance children’s rights and encourage child participation through our global work:

• Advocacy - International Children’s Peace Prize - Awarded annually, the International Children’s Peace Prize recognises a child who courageously stands up for children’s rights and creates meaningful impact locally or globally.
• Research - KidsRights Index - Published annually, the KidsRights Index is the first and only global ranking that measures how well children’s rights are respected worldwide.
• Action - State of Youth - Through State of Youth, our global action platform, we empower young people aged 12–29 to become leaders and changemakers. This worldwide, youth-led movement provides tools, resources, and connections to take action on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, guided by children’s rights.

Your Fundraising Supports

Every donation helps create a future where every child can thrive. By fundraising for KidsRights UK you are supporting our work here in the UK and beyond.

Examples of the work you fundraising could support:

• Bana Alabed, the 2025 International Children’s Peace winner, in her fight to rebuild schools in Syria. Watch Bana’s video.
• The Smart Street School for orphans in Pakistan through the changemakers like Alyan and the Cross Crossadder Foundation. Watch the video.
• Changemakers like Aaron from Liverpool fight for children’s rights and issues in their community. Watch Aaron’s video.

Every £10 donated supports KidsRights UK fight for the rights of young people across the UK and beyond through our changemaker network, State of Youth.