KCFN

18/07/2013

Highsted pupil Isabel’s toy design makes a splash at national awards:

A teenager's safe play design has led to her school getting a £1,000 award.

30/05/2013

Young homeless people are set to have a say on policy affecting them, after the government announced funding to create a Homeless Young People’s Parliament. Read more here:

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30/04/2013

A 3 year research project will be carried out to examine the personality traits of successful fundraisers.

"The three-year project, called The Formation of Fundraisers: the role of personal skills in asking for money, will explore how fundraisers’ personalities interact with their professional skills to affect the amount of money they raise for good causes." Read more below..

Beth Breeze says the three-year Formation of Fundraisers project will break new ground by examining non-technical aspects of the profession

04/04/2013

Fancy a bit of nostalgia to perk up your Thursday? Here's one of our 'back in the day' posters:

04/04/2013

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04/04/2013

Click here to read an article from the Kent Business website about the KCFN CXK merger event, it was a great success!!

by business editor Trevor Sturgess Two youth charities are joining forces with a pledge to boost services for the young. CXK - formerly known as Connexions - and KCFN (Kent Children's Fund Network) are merging to create a £14 million organisation.

04/04/2013

Oxfam hopes a new partnership with the loyalty company Nectar, which will allow people to collect points on items they donate to the charity’s shops, will raise millions of pounds for its international development work. Read more here:

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21/03/2013

Thanks to all those who attended the CXK KCFN merger on the 18th March. You can view photos from the evening here: http://s1320.photobucket.com/user/cxkltd/media/DSCF1767_zpsd2743484.jpg.html?src=pb_unauth

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07/03/2013

"More than 10,000 extra places are needed in Kent over the next few years – the equivalent of 25 primary schools." Read more here:

Comes amid the crisis surrounding the lack of places

22/02/2013

New figures revealed the extent of child poverty in Kent, with some areas seeing more than a quarter of children living in deprivation:

In some areas as high as a quarter of children

14/02/2013

Union chiefs have called a meeting of Kent’s school leaders to discuss what is called “disruption to children’s education by forcing schools to become academies”...

School leaders urged to attend Maidstone meeting

07/02/2013

Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, will announce a major climbdown over his controversial plans to scrap GCSEs in favour of a new English Baccalaureate. In a surprise statement in the Commons, Mr Gove will reveal that he is abandoning plans to introduce the new qualification in 2015.