Social Impact School Award

The Social Impact Schools Award recognises the dedication of schools and their students in having a positive impact on the world.

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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. 

"The Social Impact School award really helped us during our recent Ofsted inspection, it allowed us to talk in more detail about what we do as a school to help care for others as well as the environment, working together to create lots of positive change. During the inspection, it helped our staff team to highlight even more how wonderful and caring our pupils truly are with their fabulous contributions and amazing work they carried out to gain this award!"
Lauren Gray
Lauren GrayStamfordham Primary School
"SuperKind is a fantastic initiative, a simple way to record pupils' social actions and help them to understand the impact of their philanthropic efforts. Since we have started using SuperKind we have seen an increase in girls suggesting ideas to make change and help others - which is fantastic!"
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Nicola MooneyPembridge Hall School
"We chose to sign up for the Social Impact Schools Award because we felt as a school we were already doing such great things to do with social impact and SuperKind was a great way to bring all our incentives together and track it. It's been a really good platform that the children can engage with and it's working out really well here at St Helen's."
St Helen`s Primary
Angela GaisieSt Helen's Primary School
"SuperKind has made me realise that I can make a difference in the world. It has made me want to make more of a change."
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StudentIngol Community Primary School
"The whole process of registering for the award and logging the social actions has been incredibly easy. We are only a third of the way through the school year and already we've hit the criteria of logging one action per student. And now we're pushing for more!"
Dan Burke
Dan BurkeSaint Christina's School
"SuperKind is a great concept and an amazing resource. It will help schools in their charity and fundraising work and it will help children and young people to learn about important causes and how they can make a genuine difference, which is an essential part of their education."
Liz Francis
Liz FrancisDirector, Alpha Plus Group Ltd (owner of 20 schools, nurseries & 6th form colleges)
“Thanks to SuperKind, we’re thinking more about how we can broaden our impact and move beyond ‘Bring in £1 for non-uniform day’. We are inspired to take bigger and bolder actions.”
Nicola Bednarzcuk
Nicola BednarzcukHarrow Lodge Primary School
“Superkind is a brilliant idea that gives pupils the skills and tools needed to make the changes that matter to them. We shall definitely be using the platform at our school!”
Jackie Chou Dain
Jackie Chou DainEducation Manager, Noel Park Primary School
"The award resources have helped the children discover, enjoy and find out what they can be doing to help others around the world."
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Jessica TaitHilden Grange Prep School
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WHY SHOULD WE APPLY TO BE A SOCIAL IMPACT SCHOOL?

Applying to be a Social Impact School and achieving the award provides several benefits:

  • Formal recognition of your school/alternative learning provision’s commitment to social impact to demonstrate to prospective parents, students, staff and inspectors.
  • A free introductory call with a member of our team to receive expert consultancy on social action at your school.
  • A welcome pack in the post including sticker sheets and/or posters, depending on the age of your students.
  • Access to SuperKind’s suite of social action tools for teachers, including the ability to award badges and track all social action in your school – a huge help in report writing and inspections. 
  • Receive exclusive monthly classroom resources/assembly packs to help embed social action within your establishment. The resources we send are specific to whether you are a nursery, infant, prep, primary, or secondary school! Alongside these we have a 40 page guide to Best Practice in Social Action.
  • Immerse your students in taking social action, which has enormous benefits including developing empathy, leadership, a sense-of agency and even enhanced well-being (Body et al 2019).
  • Celebrate and reward the incredible difference being made by your staff and students.
Body A, Lau E and Josephidou J (2019) Our charitable children: Engaging children in charities and charitable giving. University of Kent.

HOW DOES THE AWARD WORK?

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. 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.

WHAT SOCIAL ACTION CAN STUDENTS EARN BADGES FOR?

There are 12 categories of social action listed on SuperKind.

These are:

Change BehavourChanging their behaviour 

DonatorDonating

Speech MakerMaking a speech

Poster MakerMaking a poster

Event OrganiserOrganising an event

Superkind PetitionerPetitioning

ProtesterProtesting

Superkind FundraisingRaising money

Awareness RaiserSharing with others

Club StarterStarting a club

VolunteerVolunteering

Letter WriterWriting 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.

REGISTRATION AND APPLICATION

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 until 25th December, 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 2024/25 award is open now.  

To achieve the award, actions will be counted across the 2024/25 academic year, until 31st July 2025.

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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