We believe that no child or young person should have to navigate the challenges of bereavement or emotional distress alone.We believe that no child or young person should have to navigate the challenges of bereavement or emotional distress alone.
Booking & Contribution Options
We are inviting secondary schools to take part in the Got Your B.A.C.K. – Going Forward campaign by raising awareness and vital funds to support bereaved young people across Northern Ireland.
We need leaders in education to help us grow this movement, equipping young people to stand together through grief, kindness, and solidarity.
Leadership pathway, not just a service
Empowering educators. Embedding awareness. Achieving recognition.
We’re inviting schools to go one step further by becoming a Got Your B.A.C.K. Champion School, equipping your staff to lead this work from within your school community, and embedding bereavement awareness, kindness, and solidarity into the heart of school life.
By choosing this option, you’ll become a true partner and changemaker in this movement.
As a Champion School, we will:
✔ Deliver Youth Bereavement Awareness Training for your school staff – building confidence, understanding, and capacity to support bereaved young people
✔ Train your staff to deliver the Got Your B.A.C.K. Awareness Workshop – we’ll walk them through the content, activities, and facilitation skills so they’re ready to deliver it in classrooms, assemblies, or form groups
✔ Provide a complete digital resource pack – including presentation slides, facilitator guide, and classroom activities
✔ Provide teen bereavement resources for students – created by young people, for young people
✔ Supply a starter pack of Got Your B.A.C.K. fundraising wristbands – to help kick-start your school’s social action campaign
By becoming a Champion School, your staff will be empowered to deliver this work year after year, building a compassionate school culture, raising awareness, and leading fundraising to support bereaved young people across Northern Ireland.
We recommend this option for schools seeking to embed bereavement awareness and peer support into their wellbeing and pastoral programme, while developing staff leadership and sustainability for the long term.
✅ Professional recognition: This isn’t just training it’s an investment in people, culture, and community. By becoming a Champion School, you’ll equip your staff with the tools, resources, and confidence to lead this vital work from the inside out.
✅ Staff CPD: Youth Bereavement Awareness training for your team
✅ Train-the-trainer: Learn to deliver the Got Your B.A.C.K. Awareness Workshop
✅ Ready-to-go delivery resources: Digital and physical materials to start immediately
✅ Fundraising starter kit: Wristbands and support to launch your first school fundraiser
✅ Recognition: Be recognised for your leadership: Your teachers will each receive professional certification recognising their achievement. This work will also help your school achieve wider wellbeing and social action goals, supporting recognition towards awards such as the Kindness Award, Take 5 Schools Gold Award, and Social Action Awards and will support your ability to demonstrate ETI wellbeing and safeguarding requirements.
A Practical, Achievable Delivery Approach
✔ Delivered as a 2-hour twilight or flexible session—fits easily into your school CPD calendar
✔ More than “just a talk”—this is staff empowerment + sustainability + action
✔ No need to take staff off timetable for a full day
Contribution
✅ Investment = sustainable, capacity-building, empowering
We ask Champion Schools to make a one-off contribution of £750 to cover:
✔ Staff training (1.5hrs)
✔ Full resource pack
✔ Student resources
✔ Fundraising starter materials
Team up for more impact: Multi-school bookings in trusts or clusters benefit from a reduced rate of £700 per school (for 3+ schools booking together).
We ask schools to commit to a minimum fundraising target of £500 as part of their participation. This can be raised through a student-led social action project, bringing the school community together to stand in solidarity with bereaved young people while raising funds to help us continue this vital work.
As part of this partnership, your school will receive:
✔ The Got Your B.A.C.K. – Going Forward Awareness Workshop facilitated by our team
Your Booking Option1
- Book our team to teach your staff how to deliver this important youth bereavement awareness campaign & workshop. FME will leave you fully equipped with a fun educator’s pack, leaving you ready to inspire and engage your students or;
- Our team will deliver this campaign workshop directly to your young people
- Want more than 1 workshop for your school – we’ve got your B.A.C.K.! Add an extra £125 target to your donation or fundraising target for every extra awareness workshop that you would like facilitated for your school.
✔ 80 Student wristbands for participants, symbolising their commitment to standing side by side with bereaved peers
✔ A school logo to showcase your involvement and achievement
✔ A decal board for your school to showcase and promote your very own Got Your B.A.C.K. – Going Forward campaign
✔ Ideas to get you going
✔ A dedicated fundraising page for your school, created by Fresh Minds Education
✔ The option for individual students to have their own fundraising page linked to the school’s campaign page
Plus:
🏆 Every school will be entered into a friendly competition to see who can raise the most. The top fundraising school will receive a special award plaque and a package of bereavement support resources for their school community.
🎨 And for students: the top individual fundraiser across all participating schools will receive a commissioned artist’s drawing of them wearing our Got Your B.A.C.K. t-shirt, a unique keepsake to honour their achievement.
Students can enter this individual challenge by completing our student fundraising page request form.
We encourage every school to aim even higher than the minimum target, knowing that every extra pound raised helps us reach more grieving young people and ensure no child faces grief alone.
Alternative option – one-off donation:
If your school is unable to commit to fundraising, you can choose instead to invest in the campaign with a suggested donation of £350 to cover the cost of the workshop and contribute to our wider work.
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