Join us for our first HKF Fireside Chat on 24 Feb! Find out how winning a bursary was transformational for HKF Alumna, Rosie Wainwright. We’ll also be joined by our Trustee Mica Coleman Jones and Elizabeth Hess from Kaplan UK. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ewJwf_t
The Helena Kennedy Foundation promotes the equality of opportunity achieved through education and training. We work with disadvantaged students in the Further Education sector, helping them to realise their potential as they move into fulfilling careers across a range of sectors. Background should not be a barrier to accessing high quality education, and all the […]
Meet James. He’s an entrepreneur, Youtuber and model, with over 14,000 followers across his social media platforms. He even appeared in the music video for Sam Smith’s song, Kids Again. All this at the age of just 22. Rather impressive, right? Not only that, but James is also a former HKF Award winner, receiving a […]
The Long Shadow of Deprivation report (2020) highlights the pay gap differences between areas of our country and between the most and least deprived sons found in the same area. The report identified that greater interventions were needed in the local labour market, and called for employers to look at ways that they can access […]
The Helena Kennedy Foundation has launched its first ever Xmas appeal to help raise funds during the 2020/21 academic year. The Foundation has set a goal of raising £3,000 over the Xmas period, which would pay for the cost of a bursary for one student. Given the impact of COVID-19 on education, it is more […]
Here at the Helena Kennedy Foundation, there is nothing better than being contacted by our previous award winners and hearing that a bursary has truly changed their life. We recently received a letter from the winner of one of our awards in 2002. Joe Jones won the Award for Achievement in Education that year, and […]
Applicants to the Helena Kennedy Foundation’s Higher Education Awards bursary scheme are awaiting the imminent outcomes of their applications. The winners of the bursaries, which include 13 university badged bursaries plus 8 other badged bursaries, will be announced this week (week beginning 24th August). The HE Awards bursaries are for current or former students at […]
Dr Ann limb CBE DL received an honorary doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University on 22 November 2019. Baroness Kennedy, the university’s Chancellor joined Ann to celebrate Ann’s honorary degree. Ann is an educationalist, a charity and business leader, Quaker and lifelong feminist with a strong commitment to improving access to education for all. When Ann […]
The Helena Kennedy Foundation is delighted to announce that we now have an office base in Birmingham. Thanks to a great welcome and generous office space from South and City College Birmingham, the Charity can firmly operate directly in the Midlands. The Foundation provides financial bursaries as well as invaluable support for up-to 100 students […]
MK College CEO & Group Principal, Dr Julie Mills, who is Chair of the Helena Kennedy Foundation – the FE sector’s influential independent charity – has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. On behalf of the Trustees, President of the Foundation, Baroness Kennedy QC said ‘Julie Mills is one of the most committed […]