We’re a Fair Education Alliance Award Winner!
The Fair Education Alliance announced its 2023 Award Winners at a ceremony hosted by Bloomberg last night, with GoodWork among the winners of this year’s Innovation Awards. The FEA Awards support individuals to start-up and scale impactful solutions to transform the education system and make it fairer for all.
Innovation Award winners receive grant funding and a year long programme of support, with over 140 hours of technical training and leadership development to help develop, test and scale their initiative.
Caroline Rowley, Head of UK, Ireland & Middle East Corporate Philanthropy at Bloomberg said: “At Bloomberg, we are committed to improving social mobility and have been a long-term supporter and advocate of education initiatives across the UK. We are incredibly proud to support the Fair Education Alliance in its efforts to promote innovation and collaboration in the education sector, ensuring that greater numbers of students can access and thrive in education, irrespective of family income or circumstance. With the cost of living crisis threatening to entrench existing inequalities within our educational sector, the work of these incredible award winners is vital.”
Reacting to the Award, our Founder, Felicity Halstead said: “I am thrilled to be a recipient of the Innovation Award, it’s an incredible opportunity for GoodWork, to help us grow and reach many more young people who have been locked out of the labour market as a result of their experience in education.
I founded GoodWork because I believe that the way we measure success in education must change to reflect the realities of the working world. Having worked in a corporate setting running widening participation programmes, I’ve seen first-hand how challenging it can be to support young people from underserved communities through recruitment processes that are designed to exclude them. To achieve real change, we need businesses as well as educators to radically rethink how we assess talent and prepare the next generation to enter a skills-based economy. Our innovative recruitment approach allows us to find marginalised talent and through our early careers programme we support young adults to make a successful transition into the working world, with fairly paid work and holistic support being central to our approach.
After launching a limited pilot in January, we’re delighted to be working with the Fair Education Alliance to grow our programme and pursue bigger, more transformative change that will impact many more young people in the years to come.”