The Make a Difference Challenge is a child-led social action programme teachers can run in their very own classroom.

Our unique programme allows primary school teachers to take students through their very own local social action project.

Over 900 schools and 26,000 children have already taken part. Join the Make a Difference Challenge this year.

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Programme Benefits

Whether for your SMSC, personal development or broader desire to develop confident, empathetic young citizens our ‘MADC’ programme has been externally evaluated demonstrating how transformational it can be for children who take part. It has been shown to develop:

• Skills including empathy, teamwork, oracy and mediating differences
• ‘Grit’, resilience and motivation to act when they see something going wrong
• Confidence for secondary school
• Awareness of voluntary groups and organisations in their local community

What are the components of the programme?

Flexibility: You access our Teachable training platform as it suits you to follow our essential trainings and access the 8 pillar lessons. The Make a Difference Challenge can be run over the entire year or one term for your students. It can be for any year group, and particularly makes a great Year 6 ‘Leave a Legacy’ project after SATs.

Core learning: It provides your pupils with an opportunity to identify and research an issue that they feel passionate about, then make a difference to it through awareness-raising, fundraising or taking practical action. Through the lessons they will get to practice skills that underpin democracy, social justice and community action to empower them for their future.

Real impact: After you take your students through the guided lessons on how to research and select their social, environmental or economic issue of choice, they work to deliver it in your community. This ranges from clothing swaps to cleaning up a community space, to campaigns for cleaner air! see our case studies here.

What does the licence include?

For just £150 per year, your licence enables you to plan and deliver the Make a Difference Challenge with your students through our online platform and resources. By completing the programme you will receive:

• CPD certificated Make a Difference Challenge online teacher training for up to three educators
• Access for up to three teachers to detailed lesson plans and PowerPoint presentations to help guide your social action
• Full lesson resources to inspire and guide you and your pupils
• An annual certificate for your school to proudly display
• Certificates to recognise your pupils’ achievements
• A digital scrapbook to enable you to record and share the work of your pupils

Sign up today

Ready to get started? Join the Make a Difference Challenge.

Looking for a secondary-level social action framework? Click here.