Today, the CEO, Founder and Clinical Director of Kids Inspire, Sue Bell has been awarded an OBE in Queen's Birthday Honours.

Carole is a professionally trained Kids Inspire mentor and she makes a difference in the lives of the young people she supports via our mentoring scheme.

May is the month to talk about walking for ‘wellbeing’ its simple, free and one of the easiest ways to get active, lose weight and become healthier.

This year, our committed team of volunteers have achieved so much, see some highlights below:

How do we help EVERYONE to heal post COVID-19?

This free event is open to individuals, schools, health and social care professionals, parent/ carers, and anyone else who is interested.

Please join us.

In the run up to World Meditation Day, our Communications and Marketing Assistant, Zoe, meditated for 15 minutes a day for seven days. Hear how she found the experience…

Would you like to make a difference to the wellbeing in your community?

If so, train to become a Community Volunteer and bridge the gap for support from Kids Inspire into your community.

Last week, the Sing My Own Song project came to an end. Zoe attended the final in person session at Hargrave House. She shares how the group of eight 11-17 year olds collaborated to write a powerful song…

Equality, diversity and inclusion is an important focus in many organisations and Kids Inspire is no different. Last week was Deaf Awareness week (3-9 May) and we took the opportunity to talk to a local Resource Base for deaf pupils within a mainstream primary school.

Our services are for children, young people and their families, but the Kids Inspire community is wide-open to many more – the love and care goes on and on…

The therapeutic team make the most of the great outdoors during their sessions with service users who are experiencing anxiety, depression or other emerging mental health difficulties.

Vandals broke into children’s charity, Kids Inspire over the May bank holiday weekend.

This weekend we challenged our team to complete 100 acts of kindness acts.

Play and Music therapist Fiona, who leads our Sing My Own Song project, tells us how a recent session helped the young people, emotionally, in three different ways.

Basildon Market was a hub for community outreach on Saturday as children’s charity, Kids Inspire, spoke to local families and gave away goodies to passers by.

Between 30 April and 3 May, which would’ve been Captain Tom’s 101st birthday weekend, committed supporters have been challenged to take on a 100 of something fundraiser in support of their favourite charity. Kids Inspire have signed up to take part.

At the beginning of April, Sophie and Gregory were recognised as our Volunteers of the Month for their work on Brentwood based therapeutic project, Sing My Own Song.

Kids Inspire’s Lunch Club programme delivered 160 lunches to 22 low-income families or to families whose children may be experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties during Easter.