Mission

We work in partnership with secondary schools to help young people to give their time, tenacity and talents to improve their local communities. Our vision is to help build a new generation of motivated and switched-on young people who want to use their skills to support local charities and make the lives of others in and around their communities better.

Category

Disability

Additional Information

The First Give Programme is delivered through a fully resourced scheme of work that is interactive and student-led. We offer this to schools free of charge. Over eight lessons, the Programme encourages an entire year group of students to identify social issues in their area and engage with local charities that address them. The students will then have the opportunity to compete for £1,500 of grant money. Teams will do this by advocating for their charity in a school competition. The scheme of work promotes many aspects of Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural education within secondary schools. It fits easily into a variety of different subject areas such as Citizenship, PSHE, RE and English. £1,500 grant money for each schoolFirst Give provides all the lesson plans and resources including PowerPoints, hard copy Student Coursebooks and video links as well as a total of £1,500 grant money for each school to award to the charities of the three winning teams. In addition to this, First Give will also deliver an Assembly and host the School Final in order to further engage and inspire students.