Unrestricted funding to support the team and ongoing projects (360G-zing-138)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, year 7’s faced unprecedented disruption to their education, either through missing learning time, school closures, or reduced engagement through virtual learning. Joel Dunn, founder of Paradigm Project, collected data on students transitioning from year six to year seven, and the teachers working with them, to better understand the impact of COVID-19, and presented his findings through: "Bridge the Gap 2021". Growing out of this report, Paradigm Project is centred around fighting social inequality and unlocking the potential in the lives of disadvantaged young people. They address complex youth issues through proactive and preventative methods at a young age, to disrupt negative cycles at the earliest opportunity. The team runs the following programmes: - "My Next Steps" focuses on the transition of students from primary to secondary school, where students co-produce their student profile (vision, goals and support needs), with follow-up mentoring through the transition to year seven where needed. - Cultural Humility Training for Educators - Bespoke training and consultancy The team has continued running numerous research projects on dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline, recruited a new trustee board, and scaled the number of partnerships. This grant is unrestricted, supporting toward areas including digital strategy development, project operational costs, and amplifying stories of their work.