Protected: Four Years of Building What Lasts: Celebrating our partnership with the Harry Kane Foundation
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October 19, 2026
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The Happy Schools Index helps schools listen to how children feel about their lives. But listening is only the beginning. Explore how insight can help strengthen psychological fitness, relationships and the wider school community — for pupils, staff and families.
We have become increasingly good at noticing when children are struggling. But prevention has to mean more than finding problems earlier. It also means noticing the strengths, skills and capacities children are developing through everyday life — including the small struggles that help them discover what they can do.
We’re delighted to see Harry Kane nominated for the 2026 Ballon d’Or — not just for his season on the pitch, but for the leadership and quiet commitment we’ve seen through our Foundation partnership.
Children are not patients-in-waiting. If we frame childhood mainly through risk, symptoms and disorder, we risk missing the bigger developmental task: helping children build psychological fitness — the capacity to regulate, recover and adapt — alongside confidence, connection and growing agency.
Nearly twenty years after our first research began, Bounce Forward is still asking the same essential question: how do we help children and the adults around them build the psychological fitness to meet life? This is the story of our journey from research partner to independent charity, through challenge and change, and into a new chapter focused on building what lasts.
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