Kids Inspire and Impetus

The need: Young people with experience of poverty have weaker SEL skills at all stages of education than their more affluent peers, resulting in poorer mental health, lower academic attainment and poorer employment outcomes. Research suggests that SEL approaches can lead to gains in academic achievement and engagement.

Our portfolio partner: Kids Inspire provides therapeutic support from trained professionals to young people and their families affected by trauma, distress or negative experiences. The organisation is dedicated to promoting self-awareness, self-resilience, and positive relationship building for young people, helping them improve mental health and subsequently re-engage in education.

Our impact: We are helping Kids Inspire to refine their impact strategy, including collecting new data to track the social and emotional development and school outcomes of the young people they serve. As they continue to deepen and monitor their impact, we will help to build on their operational foundations for growth and support as they expand into new regions in the South East.