Neighbourhood to National: Our new strategy
Today is the launch of our new strategy: From Neighbourhood to National: A Strategy to ensure every child and young person thrives.
This strategy has been co-created with our members through workshops, surveys, and conversations. It reflects the insights, priorities and ambitions of our member organisations and the young people they work with every day.
Our cross-sector alliance is needed now, more than ever. Educational inequity is one of the most urgent challenges of our time. Today, one in three children is growing up in poverty. This significantly impacts their outcomes in attainment, wellbeing and skills throughout childhood – and ultimately their life chances.
That's why our new strategy is rooted in systems change - tackling not just policies and practices, but also the resources, relationships, power and mental models that hold inequity in place.
By taking this system-wide approach, through our three core strands – Collective Voice, Collective Action and Collective Strength – we can bring lasting change.
Our Strategy: From Neighbourhood to National
At the heart of the Fair Education Alliance is the belief that lasting change comes from cross-sector collaboration, rooted in trusted relationships. We drive impact through three core strands:
Collective Voice – Amplifying insights from across our membership and creating platforms for young people to shape policy and shift national conversations.
Collective Action – Driving place-based and thematic collaborations that tackle root causes of inequity.
Collective Strength – Building the leadership, capacity and connections of organisations working to improve the lives of children and young people .
Woven through all our work are two golden threads:
Youth Engagement – Ensuring young people with lived experience co-lead change
AI & Technology – Harnessing AI to support young people and member organisations
Our work wouldn’t be possible without our lead supporter Bloomberg, our founding funder UBS, and our long-term partners A&O Shearman, Barclays LifeSkills, IG Group, Mission44, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and The Dulverton Trust. We’re grateful for their continued support and investment in improving the lives of children and young people.
Young people cannot wait. From grassroots action to national policy, we’re here to see lasting change and we’re so glad you’re a part of it.
Thank you – we can’t wait to take the next five years forward, together.
Gina Cicerone & Sam Butters
Co-CEOs, Fair Education Alliance
