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For Mental Health Awareness Week this year, we ran an assembly. More than 13,000 children watched live and a further 18,000 watched on catch-up, totalling more than 30,000 children! A huge thanks to all of the teachers and children that took part! Led by the Mental...

The founder and CEO of 52 Lives and The School of Kindness, Jaime, and the Director of Kindness, Greig, visited Buckingham Palace in May! Jaime was on the King’s Honours list in 2023 for services to charity, and received a BEM. They said Buckingham Palace was...

We've teamed up with The Happy Newspaper to bring you a very special Kind Postcard Challenge! There are lots of different ways to be kind, and we'd love to spread the word about them. We're working with our former patron, Emily Coxhead, and her Happy Newspaper to...

A huge well done to an amazing Year 4 Pupil from Delta Primary School, Enfield, who won a Kindness Bench for her school! She was the winner of our Random Acts of Kindness Week Challenge. Now her school can spread even more kindness through the incredible bench donated...

We are thrilled to announce that Donna Ashworth is now a Patron of 52 Lives. Donna is a poet and best-selling author whose words have captured the hearts and minds of millions of people around the world. Donna has been helping the charity behind the scenes in all...

With World Poetry Day coming up (21st March), we couldn't think of a better time to release our brand new lesson plan! It is based on our favourite poem by bestselling author and poet, Donna Ashworth - called 'You'. It is about the impact each one of us has on the...