Hello!

Hello and welcome to our first newsletter.

As we enter a new year it is four years since Freedom Foundation set up in May 2017. We could never have envisaged the rollercoaster that lay ahead of us and as we enter a new year with a new team and opportunities ahead we are excited for what our fourth year will bring.

The team have worked so hard over the last four months on the HAF programme and as we were delivering the busiest term so far in schools we were recruiting, planning and executing what has been an extremely successful summer delivery programme supporting around 250 children per day.

During 2021 we made the decision to step out of our comfort zone and take the big leap of employing people into the business full-time, Isabel has been supporting us over the last 5 months and with Lucy joining us in June and Simon starting this month we are a full-time team of five people - we are so excited to be growing in this way.

As always we could not do this work without an amazing team around us and the hard work of our facilitators who continue to learn and thrive through delivering our Freedom Foundation programmes.

Thank you to everyone involved every day in spreading our vision and supporting young peoples mental health.

This newsletter is for you, our team, to let you know what is going on, keep you updated and help you see all the work that is going on, feedback on what you would like to see is most welcome.

For now we thank you for your hard work last term and over the summer and in advance for the busy term that lies ahead and look forward to keeping you updated.

Your Freedom Foundation Founders,

Laura & Stacey xx

Spotlight!

How much do you know about co-founder Laura Grant? Here's a recent article where she talks about founding the business:
https://www.freedomfoundationuk.org/building-your-own-business/

Have you seen our full introduction video - take a moment to understand ALL that happens here at Freedom Foundation

Dates for your Diary

End of half-term facilitator meeting - 15th October at 11am
End of term team meeting - 17th December at 11am

Next Steps

Please feel free to get in touch if you have any feedback for us
Start thinking about lesson plans for programmes coming up this term