Aspirations for a new start in a new year, 2023 - let’s change lives!

Have you started the year setting goals and aspirations for the year ahead? Every year we renew our promise to help change the lives of children around the world through access to education.

Can you imagine how you would keep in touch with your family and friends or do your work if you didn’t have access to WIFI? Last year we were able to support thousands of children with access to education through the development of digital classrooms and resource centres to provide access to learning resources and training for educators to improve teaching and learning. We will continue this year.



Can you imagine how tired you would be after walking 2 hours to school in the morning? Yet how keen are these children to learn, that they will do this. Last year we provided bicycles in The Gambia to ensure students can travel to school in a safe and timely manor. We are proud of everything we have achieved together, and we will continue this year.



Can you imagine reaching and age when you can no longer go to school every day because of a natural bodily function that you have no support to manage easily? We were able to support thousands of women and girls with training to make reusable period pads and manage menstrual health with dignity and pride so they can continue going to school every day. This has raised awareness of a wider range of issues preventing women and girls from accessing education, so we have been supporting training in gender-based violence education too.



By providing access to education in Cuba, Haiti, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Malawi, Uganda, Guinea Bissau, and many other places around the world we are changing lives together.


Before you launch into your new year plans and resolutions, please support us by sharing this post and the message that education matters.


  • That every child should have access to trained teachers and good quality resources.


  • That no child should miss school because they do not have transport to get to school.


  • That no girl, or young woman should miss school because she has her period.


  • That no woman or girl should ever have to experience gender inequality and gender-based violence.

                 

 

Thank you to all of our supporters, donors, partners, volunteers, ambassadors and staff for everything you did to make this work possible in 2022. With your support today we can provide access to education for thousands more students in 2023. With your support we can reach thousands more women and girls in 2023. 

 

We want to express our thanks and appreciation for your support for this coming year.

 

What a wonderful legacy that would be for every year ahead.

 


Steve Sinnott • January 10, 2023

An Education Revolution

By Ann Beatty • April 6, 2025
This week while out and about in Hertfordshire and we visited the British Schools Museum. We discovered the first school opened by Joseph Lancaster, was known as the ‘Poor Childs Friend”, was in 1810. It was his lifelong mission that all children regardless of their circumstances, should benefit from an education. Apparently, Joseph heard a small girl say, “Oh that I could read!” and this inspired him to create a simple education system that eventually would benefit children across the world. Joseph was the tenth son of a poor man himself from South London. His aim was to offer free education for everyone. However, it would be 93 years before the U.K. government finally made education free for all. There are still many countries today where education is still not free to access and it is certainly not compulsory for primary and secondary age pupils. Joseph’s mission really resonates with that of the Foundation, to support access to education for all. We enjoyed our visit and appreciated the tour given by two of the Museum’s volunteers, Angela and Clare. They described some of the challenges faced in the early years of formal education and shared some of the rules that teachers and students had to abide by with us. 

Sparks Bristol

By Ann Beatty • April 4, 2025
Sparks Bristol is a collaborative community project initially envisioned by The Global Goals Centre, (GGC) more of which below. A few years ago, GGC took over an empty Marks and Spencer store and that’s how Sparks was born. Sparks is a department store with a difference, co-created by Global Goals Centre and Artspace Lifespace. On the ground floor is a huge range of shops, installations, events and more. Upstairs is a hub for local artists, it offers affordable studios as well as rehearsal and performance space. The Global Goals Centre is a Bristol-based educational charity inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals. (SDGs). GGC believe the SDG’s or Global Goals as they are sometimes known, can be reached, with imaginative solutions and widespread education and engagement. They work with partners to promote creative solutions and deliver ground breaking projects that work towards these ambitious goals. The Steve Sinnott Foundation supported the Global Goals Centre with seed funding when it first started over 5 years ago. This month we went to visit them to see how they are getting on and we were taken aback by the volume of work they have achieved since they started. It is amazing to see how though working together with other local community groups it has grown into the vibrant centre it is today. All of the creative projects they host are linked to the SDGs. They cover topics that tackle poverty, education, climate change, fashion recycling and upcycling, to name a few.

Spring is Here! Looking Ahead!

By Ann Beatty • March 28, 2025
Spring is definitely here, daffodils, blossom and crocuses are all basking in the bright sunshine. There is still a chill in the air in the shade but it's happening and all the seeds that were sown over the last few months are coming to fruition. At the Foundation, we have been planning the year ahead and our Positive Periods and Prevention of Gender Based Violence programmes got underway this weekend in Haiti and Ghana. These projects will have a long-lasting effect on the lives of the women and girls who take part: tackling the root causes of gender-based violence and enabling girls to attend school every day when they have their period, to feel safe at school and know how to take action when they are faced with violence. These are the first of many projects planned for the year ahead as we continue to work towards Education for All children everywhere.