Category: News Stories

The Inspiring Barrow Kickstart Programme

The Inspiring Barrow Kickstart Programme has been supporting young children across Furness develop their skills for and has now completed it’s 8th  and final year of operation. The programme has worked  towards the development...

New Kickstart and Mentoring Programmes

The New Year marks the start of a new cohort of Year 8 Students for the Kickstart Programme and the start of a Year 6 Mentoring Programme for year 6 students. Year 6 children...

Year 8 Celebration Evening

Inspiring Barrow worked with Year 8 students from 6 Secondary schools last term , Walney School, Furness Academy, St Bernard’s Catholic High School , Chetwynde, Dowdales and Ulverston Victoria High School . The students...

Inspring Barrow Celebration Evening

76 children from 16 local primary schools in Barrow and Dalton recently took part in the Inspiring Barrow year 6 programme. (Sept -Dec 2022). The children worked extremely hard to develop the soft skills...

Year 7 Kickstart Programme May – July 2022

In April this year, our Inspiring Barrow team delivered a number of successful and well attended Year 7 Kickstart ‘taster’ sessions across five secondary schools in the Furness area. The students were identified and...

Inspiring Barrow Kickstart Programme Review

Inspiring Barrow Kickstart programme finished the academic year on a high by engaging with children across year 6 and 7 in Barrow and Furness. The programme which supported schools during lockdown with educational material,...

Inspiring Barrow 2020-2021 updates

Although school visits were not permitted into the school buildings during lockdown restrictions, Inspiring Barrow has been busy behind the scenes supporting the children of Barrow and Furness. The team supported the schools by...