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More Impact, More Change: Our Strategy Refresh Journey
In this blog, our Director of Operations & Impact, Rachel, shares why we’re refreshing our strategy now and how we’re approaching it.
Innovation Award Winner - PLACE to page and practice
Sean Harris, Director of PLACE and Innovation Award Winner discusses the significance of place-based approaches to address inequality in the Tees Valley and emphasises the importance of collaboration.
Reflections from our Team Strategy Retreat
Saradia McCahon, Impact and Evaluation Manager, shares her thoughts on theory of change following our team strategy retreat.
Shadow Curriculum and Assessment Review: Voice of the Future
Work experience students Nashita and Jamal share their findings from the Shadow Curriculum and Assessment Review.
Our Spending Review Submission
The Fair Education Alliance recently submitted a bid to the Treasury in anticipation of the upcoming Spending Review. Children and young people - especially those from low-income households, who have the odds stacked against them in terms of academic outcomes, skills, and employment - must be supported to reach their potential.
What’s next for the Youth Steering Group?
On Saturday the Fair Education Alliance’s Youth Steering Group gathered in Leeds for a training day, and to take part in a session on our strategy refresh.
Angel, a Youth Steering Group member, shares her thoughts on the experience.
A ‘Child-centred Government’- what does this look like in practice?
Thomas from the Fair Education Alliance Youth Steering Group shares his thoughts after attending the recent APPG on Children to discuss the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
Innovation in Action: Highlights from our Award Winners
In September, six winners of the FEA Innovation Award embarked on their part-time incubator journey to develop and test their innovations. Having completed this transformative phase, they are now dedicating themselves full-time to their initiatives and focusing on financial sustainability, communications, and building a robust team.
Thanking Dame Julia
Thanking Dame Julia Cleverdon DCVO, CBE who has stepped down as our Trustee to take up her new role as Chair of The National Lottery Community Fund.
Leading the Future: Our Strategy Refresh
Our Director of Operations and Impact shares her insight into the journey to and the process behind the Fair Education Alliance’s strategy refresh.
Game changing: Systems and place-based change
Jacquie Bance de Vasquez from Magic Breakfast shares her views on the recent Systems and Place-Based Change workshops held by the Fair Education Alliance.
Our Team’s 2024 Highlights
As 2024 draws to a close, we took one last chance to reflect on the past year and asked our team to share their highlights.
Learning from a decade of collective impact
As we have grown to almost 300 members across this decade, we have remained committed to our values of learning and honesty. In this blog, we share are our reflections on how our beliefs have evolved and what we have learned about our role.
Conservative Party Conference 2024: Spotlight on education
This year we’re attending the Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative Party conferences. In this blog Jane Fernandes, Collective Action and Advocacy Manager, reflects on her experience of the 2024 Conservative Party Conference.
Labour Party Conference 2024: A welcome shift to tackling root causes
This year we’re attending the Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative Party conferences. In this blog Janeen Hayat, Director of Collective Action, reflects on her experience of the 2024 Labour Party Conference.