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Bounce Forward & Harry Kane Foundation

Creating a nation where positive mental health messages help people to live mentally and emotionally well

Our mission

What's our shared mission?

To inspire and transform a generation's thinking about mental health and how to nurture psychological fitness

When it comes to mental health, prevention is better than cure. Bounce Forward & Harry Kane Foundation launched the partnership on the 10th October 2023 with a shared mission to inspire and transform a generation’s thinking about mental health and how to nurture and build mental resilience, and emotional wellbeing. 

The partnership will enable Bounce Forward to increase it’s member schools who have access to high quality, evidenced-based teaching resources. Taking away the financial burden will increase the number of schools who can teach the lessons.  

We will also increase our reach to parents, equipping them with the knowledge, personal skills, and practical resources to build and nurture resilience in their children. 

Through Harry’s influence, platforms, and networks together we aim to reach a wider audience through workplaces. 

The overall goal is to promote positive mental health across all generations.

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Kicking things off

The Harry Kane Foundation is supporting 17 schools across all nine regions of England by providing them with access to Bounce Forward's Healthy Minds training and curriculum for free. New teaching resources will be available in Healthy Minds and available to all member schools.

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Inspired Lessons

Both the member schools and Bounce Forward 's existing member schools are already gaining valuable insights from lessons inspired by Harry and Kate.

Harry's new lessons, Physical Resilience, focus on how exercise, nutrition, and sleep are linked to mental health. Meanwhile, Kate Kane who has long had an interest in mindful practice has been working with experts and teachers to introduce new lessons called 'Intentional Stillness'. These lessons aim to teach calming and focusing techniques to nurture and build positive mental health.

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“As a school we know that students can only perform academically if they are in a stable place emotionally and have the resilience to cope with the knocks of life. We believe that education is about so much more than outcomes at GCSE and we are therefore delighted to be a Bounce Forward / Harry Kane Foundation lead launch school and to get the chance to use Healthy Minds resources to continue to upskill our staff and to develop the resilience and wellbeing of our whole school community.”
Helen Mukherjee, Assistant HeadteacherUpper Wharfedale, North Yorkshire
"I am delighted that The Torquay Academy has been selected as a lead Bounce Forward school. Their partnership with the Harry Kane Foundation offers an opportunity to inspire how we support our young people to develop the resilience they need to reach their high aspirations and to achieve their goals. Bounce Forward's Healthy Minds lessons will deliver important learning for our students to complement our value that everyone succeeds, confidence with humility, the ability to overcome problems and succeed are part of who we are as a school. It gives me great pleasure to join the Bounce Forward community."
Owen Gratton, Assistant PrincipalTorquay Academy, South West
“We are extremely excited to be a lead launch school for the Healthy Minds programme supported by the Harry Kane Foundation. Young people with healthy minds are more resilient, better able to manage challenge and face failure positively. Our job is to ensure that the next generation have all the skills to be successful, and this partnership will help us to achieve that for our community."
Rebecca Moors, Deputy HeadteacherThe Garibaldi School, East Midlands
"The Grange School is "more than a school" and we are really excited to be a lead launch school for the Bounce Forward & Harry Kane Foundation partnership. As a school we aim to develop our students’ personality, talents and mental and physical abilities to their fullest potential and healthy minds will be a fantastic tool to help us do this. We promote a ‘can do’ attitude that enables our students to achieve success and fulfil their future aspirations whilst developing students values including resilience, respect, empathy and self-responsibility."
Nick Hood, Head of Humanities & PSHE LeadThe Grange School, Buckinghamshire, South East
"We are delighted to be involved in this project, as a school we have always prioritised wellbeing and mental health. We think these resources are excellent and better than any other we have seen. We are using them in lessons and are looking forward to the positive impact we think they will have."
Joanna Griffiths, HeadteacherAlder Grange School, Lancashire, North West
"Healthy Minds will become an integral part of our Personal Development programme as we build our student’s confidence, resilience and knowledge so that they can keep themselves mentally healthy. The Bounce Forward programme will help to facilitate the development of skills and qualities that will enable our students to become independent and thrive in society."
Clare Lewis, Personal Development LeadBridgwater and Taunton College MAT, Somerset, South West
"We are delighted that Manor School has been selected as 1 of the schools to be part of this incredible pilot. Resilience is the lynch pin of our school REACH values and one we know many students need support to develop. As the great Brene Brown says, "Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things happen". To teach the gift of resilience to our children and young people is a privilege and essential if we are to prepare them for life."
Dr Louise Newman, PrincipalManor School Raunds, Northamptonshire, East Midlands
"We are delighted to be a lead launch school for Bounce Forward at Nene Park Academy and we look forward to using the programme to help our students develop as successful and happy young people."
Robin Grover, PrincipalNene Park Academy, Peterborough, East of England
"We know that our mind enables thoughts, memory, movement, and emotions by complex functions. Developing and maintaining healthy minds throughout our learning journey is critical in meeting the increasing challenges educators and learners face. It is vital that we understand what mindfulness is and why it is important to become more resilient as we live well together. We are very excited to have the opportunity to partner with Bounce Forward with support from the Harry Kane Foundation to realise this essential goal."
Martin Serráo, Executive HeadteacherNorthampton International Academy, Northampton, East Midlands
"We are extremely excited to be part of the Bounce Forward project and see this as adding real value to our Personal Development offer at Aspire. The Healthy Minds resources are invaluable and provide a clear framework for supporting our students across all of our different sites. We are looking forward to developing the partnership over the coming year."
Andrew Burton, Executive HeadteacherAspire Alternative Provision, Buckinghamshire, South East
At Aylesbury UTC, we are proud of all our students and the challenges they face weather it be through their studies, friendship groups, career choices or next steps into the world of work and/or training. We believe that setting all young people up with core resilience, mindfulness and the ability to carve their own path is key to a successful future. We are very much looking forward to being a part of this new initiative.
Sarah WoodAssistant Principal Aylesbury UTC, Aylesbury, South East
As a Trust we have been determined to bring mental health into our curriculum and school communities since long before Covid. To be part of this project, bringing resilience teaching into Manor school is incredibly exciting as part of this mission. I talk a lot about our classrooms being places our children and young people can take off the crushing weight of the armour they wear. If we can teach, model and promote building resilience in our schools, we are preparing our students for the hard moments that life can bring. That is arguably the most important tool we can give them.
Matt ColemanDirector of School Improvement, Nene Education Trust, West Midlands
Here at Bourne End Academy, we are delighted to be a lead launch school for the charity Bounce Forward. It is particularly timely that the Harry Kane foundation has partnered with Bounce Forward as we live and breathe developing future leaders, encouraging students to be the best version of themselves each day, to ensure the best possible outcomes.
Kerry-Anne Leavy, Deputy HeadteacherBourne End, South East
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Postive change

By working together to build mental resilience in young people and the adults around them, we aim to support changes to the following:

UK in lowest 5%

The UK is ranked 69th out of 72 countries for children’s life satisfaction. *Healthy Minds is proven to increase this.

3 in 5 and 64%

3 in 5 parents worry about their children’s mental health*, and 64% of teachers confirm that students are turning to them at least once a week for advice about their wellbeing. *We support schools, teachers and parents.

50% starts by age 14

50% of adult mental health problems start by the age of 14. *This is why teaching and learning in schools is so important.

5 in a class of 30

Our children’s wellbeing is at it’s lowest – 5 children in a classroom of 30 are likely to have a mental ill-health problem, *and why we believe that prevention is better than cure.

Additional info

Harry Kane Foundation is uniquely positioned to influence and help transform thinking about mental health in and beyond the UK. Through Harry and Kate's profile, platforms and via strategic partnerships with select experts and organisations, Harry Kane Foundation helps enable practical support.

Bounce Forward bring expertise in building young people’s (and the adults around them) psychological fitness. We are well established to develop the next generation of children to become psychologically fit adults.

Collectively we share short- and long-term goals about how to think about mental health.

Healthy Minds is an extensively evaluated 5-year skills based curriculum. It is designed based on adolescent and neurological development and takes a spiral approach so that the learning builds and strengthens over time. Read more about Healthy Minds here.

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Drop us an email to [email protected] or give the team a call on 0330 133 0776. 

You can see more about Healthy Minds here. 

If you are from an organisation and want to join us in building a nation where positive mental health education and messaging helps people to live mentally and emotionally well. Find out more here.

Please the following list of references used on this page.

  1.  Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Jan 2022
  2. A 2023 survey carried out by Opinium, in partnership with Britvic & Bounce Forward
  3. National Comorbidity Survey Replication
  4. A 2023 survey carried out by Opinium, in partnership with Britvic & Bounce Forward

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