Looking forward to 2023

Welcome to 2023!

Let’s start the year with hope, ambition for change and inspiration to get involved in building a better world.


In 2023 we follow the theme of making change, this time asking young people to think about how they might improve their education. We set the challenge - Change Makers Speak out: the school I want to live in. We are asking schools to encourage students to discuss and offer their creative ideas for education of the future, by the 1st of March to be published in Engage 26 Find out more and register here.


Continuing our access to learning with our Life Long Learning webinars – book now here.


We are expanding the gender based violence (GBV) training to Cape Verde and Senegal.


Following on from the other resource centres we have set up in Nepal, The Gambia and Haiti, we are now setting up the learning resource centre in Sierra Leone.


After the success of the digital classroom in The Gambia, and seeing the profound difference it makes to students to open up access to the rest of the world, improving their learning and attendance, we are setting up another there.


Continuing to support our colleagues in Haiti with the mother tongue literacy classes, we are going to support the sharing of local stories and books published in The Gambia and Sierra Leone.


Our positive periods training will continue to be replicated as requested.



Join us


We would like to reach out and ask you to help us, by sharing our stories and working with us to take action.


“There are some things that should never be left to chance in life and striving to achieve quality education for all of the world’s children is one.” Steve Sinnott



Wishing you all a happy, peaceful and successful year ahead.



Steve Sinnott • January 2, 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.