Impact Report 2022-2023

6 ST EDWARD’S, OXFORD

Lower Sixth immersion in the community

‘Teddies has long since seen community partnership as important, but we were properly impressed by the newly launched and formalised ‘L6th Teddies Collaborates’ programme, which requires every single Lower Sixth pupil to volunteer with a local partner every week. There’s a fleet of bikes on hand to get them to where they need to be, and pupils choose partners to whom their skill sets will be most valuable - from support in a local school for children with social, emotional or mental-health difficulties to dancing and playing games with residents of a nearby care home or helping out at the food bank. It’s a long term, meaningful commitment that greatly benefits all parties, but the Warden notes that beyond the practical support pupils offer from week to week, the programme provides a longer-term public advantage in helping children to have a completely open mindset and truly understand their communities in order to use their (fortunate) positions to maximum benefit both here and beyond.’

TALK EDUCATION