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  • We’re Hiring a Social Media Manager

    JOB SPECIFICATION JOB TITLE:       Social Media manager – Freelance, Remote Rate: £350 per day, up to 4 days per month MAIN PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE JOB: to manage social media platforms and increase awareness of Helena Kennedy Foundation POSITION IN THE ORGANISATION Reports to:                             Director of operations Responsible for:            […]

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  • “It’s good to talk” – Iandra MacCallum Tchoudnowsky

    As a trustee of the HKF with a particular interest in psychotherapy and wellbeing, I was asked to write our July blog on “It’s good to talk”. As a charity, we have always encouraged our bursary winners to talk to us, to engage with our pastoral care system and advisers, and to sign up and […]

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  • HKF celebrating success with alumni winning national awards

    The Helena Kennedy Foundation celebrated the success of two alumni, Kirsty Young and Rosie Wainwright, for winning awards at the Festival of Learning 2021. Kirsty won the Return to Learning award and Rosie won for Outstanding Individual. The Helena Kennedy Foundation, a social mobility charity established in 1998, provides financial and pastoral support to Further […]

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  • The ‘first-gen’ experience: a reflection from a previous HKF bursary winner – Jake Marshall

    At the time, my earlier years of education felt normal. Just like the rest of the students in my area, I was learning a well-trodden curriculum in the backdrop of a seaside town. Life felt easy, problems appeared small and the world outside of my town’s bubble seemed non-existent. Fairly naïve in thought, I began […]

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  • Former bursary winner walks to raise a bursary

    Former HKF winner Kirsty Young, a mum of four children from Bridlington stepped out to raise £500 towards a bursary in April.  She walked for two hours every evening for 50 consecutive days. Having received a bursary in 2011 herself, Kirsty realised what a difference the bursaries make. She decided to help others by trying […]

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