Education and skills
About this theme
This theme covers all aspects of learning and training at all levels, including early years, schools, universities, adult education, apprenticeships and professional development. It is one of the eight universal themes which form our grantmaking framework and allow us to address every aspect of society. Fellows’ stories
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Fellows' updates January 2023 Fellow's update: David Stanley
Disability campaigner David Stanley (CF 2019) undertook a musical performance tour of San Diego with a group of musicians with learning disabilities.
By David Stanley, 2023
Fellows' updates January 2023 Fellow's update: Paul Ganney
Medical physicist Paul Ganney (CF 2002) has written a textbook called Introduction to Bioinformatics and Clinical Scientific Computing, published by CRC press.
By Paul Ganney, 2023
Fellows' updates January 2023 Fellow's update: Alan Hydes
Commonwealth gold medallist Alan Hydes (CF 1971) was awarded a blue plaque on Barnsley YMCA building as tribute to his leading the England Table Tennis team during a Ping-Pong diplomacy tour in China 1971.
By Alan Hydes, 2023
Fellows' updates January 2023 Fellow's update: Hilary Cooper
Girlguiding leader Hilary Cooper (CF 1979) was awarded a BEM in the 2023 New Years' Honours for services to young people and education.
By Hilary Cooper, 2023
Fellows' updates December 2022 Fellow's update: Michael Jones
An environmental project by teacher Michael Jones (CF 2015) has reached the finals of the Zayed Sustainability Prize.
By Michael Jones, 2023
Fellows' updates December 2022 Fellow's update: David Stanley
Disability campaigner David Stanley (CF 2019) released a new Christmas single, Music is Magic, in a collaboration between young people with learning disabilities and the Royal Marines Band.
By David Stanley, 2023
Blogs & conversations Music is magic for Christmas
An inspiring Christmas single has just been launched by David Stanley’s Music Man Project for learning disabled musicians, together with the Royal Marines Band.
By David Stanley, 2022
Blogs & conversations It seems like only yesterday
Fifty years ago, Olympic Gold-medallist Mary Peters was awarded the Churchill Fellowship that made it all possible. Here she reflects on what it led to.
By Mary Peters, 2022
Fellows' updates June 2022 Fellows' update: David Stanley
Disability campaigner David Stanley (CF 2019) was invited by the Minister for Disabled People to contribute a video about his charity, The Music Man Project, for the UN's Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. David’s Fellowship explored approaches to music education for learning-disabled people.
By David Stanley, 2022