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‘High-quality education is a key factor for increasing social mobility, but more interventions are needed to translate this into meaningful employment’ – Mica Jayne Coleman Jones
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…
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The HKF Xmas Appeal
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…
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Joe Jones shares his story of how he turned his life around with the help of a HKF bursary
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…
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Helena Kennedy Foundation bursary applicants await announcement of winners following A-Level results confusion
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…
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Helena Kennedy Foundation Founder and Vice President receives honorary doctorate
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…
