The Social Impact Schools Award recognises the dedication of schools and their students in having a positive impact on the world.
The Social Impact Schools Award celebrates and showcases schools and alternative learning providers’ commitment to having a social impact and provides formal recognition of those schools placing social action and charity-work at the heart of their education.
It provides a framework & resources for teaching active citizenship, character development and social action in an easy and meaningful way.
Schools, teachers and students all see active citizenship, social action and engagement with charitable causes as critical building blocks of educating children. Parents and inspectors look for schools that adopt a holistic approach, choosing institutions that help children develop into kind, empathic and empowered young adults.
Applying to be a Social Impact School and achieving the award provides several benefits:
The Social Impact Schools Award is based on students at your school carrying out social action such as volunteering, fundraising and raising awareness.
The award is run by SuperKind Education C.I.C., a 100% not-for-profit organisation dedicated to empowering young children to make positive change happen in the world around them, through the website SuperKind.org.
When students have engaged in a social action, of any type and in any location, the action can be registered by the student or teacher on SuperKind.org to earn an online badge. This process takes just a couple minutes and teachers can log students’ action on bulk.
To achieve the Social Impact Schools Award, a school/alternative learning provider must register an average of 1 social action per student over the course of an academic year. These actions can be logged at any point throughout the academic year and we permit schools to back date actions since 1st September if you only set an account up later down the line. The award is a non-competitive accreditation and all schools who meet the award criteria across the academic year will be granted the award.
Please note, from time to time across the academic year, we may contact your school to request proof of the actions taken.
There are 12 categories of social action listed on SuperKind.
These are:
Changes to behaviour
Donating
Making a speech
Making a poster
Organising an event
Petitioning
Protesting
Raising money
Raising awareness
Starting a club
Volunteering
Writing a letter
Schools/alternative learning providers can log actions taken, and award online badges, to their students for each social action that they have engaged in. Students can also claim badges on their own by uploading details of social action that they have engaged in.
When a student first completes an action (for example, Writing a Letter), they earn the bronze version of that badge. The next time they complete the same action, they will receive a silver version and the next time a gold version.
Our Welcome Packs include suggestions and ideas for specific social actions for each badge type.
The cost to register for the award is £185+VAT for state schools & alternative learning providers, and £285+VAT for independent schools (though we have a 10% discount throughout March, reducing the fee to £166.50+VAT & £229.50+VAT respectively!). The award is run by SuperKind Education C.I.C. , a 100% not-for-profit social action platform. SuperKind has a wealth of content and resources to help schools create the next generation of change-makers. We provide this content completely free of charge to schools across the UK. As well as covering the costs of running the award, the registration fee allows us to run this educational platform and supports us in our mission to educate, inspire and empower young people. Included within your registration fee you will receive a Welcome Pack which includes, sticker sheets and certificates. You will also be able to download lesson and assembly plans and we will support you with great exclusive content across the year to help you bring social action into the classroom in a meaningful and engaging way – these resources will be specific to the age group of your school. Of course, if you are successful in achieving the award, you will also receive a physical copy of the award certificate.
Please note that with the generous support of a funder, who shares our ideals of empowering the next generation of change-makers, SuperKind is able to offer financial support to a limited number of schools to fully cover the cost of your entry to the Social Impact Schools Award. If you feel the cost is prohibitive to your school’s registration please get in touch on award@superkind.org and we will see if they can support you.
Registration for the 2025 award is open now.
To achieve the award, actions will be counted across the 2025 academic year, until 31st July 2025. Any action that has taken place since 1st September can be backdated so do not worry if you are setting up an account later in the year!
You will be notified if you have been successful in achieving the award by 1st September 2025.
To register, please fill in the registration form here.
All you will need is your establishment name, size of student population, primary contact name & email and school mailing address.
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