The Soar Foundation

Our Impact

As a result of Soar workshops, teenagers and TY's have increased self-awareness, confidence, and ability to cope and deal with challenges.

The feedback that Soar receives guides us in creating future programmes.

At the end of every workshop, teenagers are asked to complete a feedback form. We use this feedback to understand the impact of our programmes on young peoples’ well-being, assess our programme’s suitability and accessibility, and to make sure that we’re consistently adapting to the needs of the teenagers we meet.

The feedback form we use was created based on our well-being model and looks to assess developments in teenagers’ coping mechanisms and resilience, awareness and understanding of self and others.

22/23 School Year Feedback

During the 2022/23 Academic year, we received 3,693 responses to our feedback form.

What teachers have to say

  • Hugely beneficial experience for our young people. They were given the opportunity to be themselves in an honest, open, caring and warm way. This was aided by the innate warmth, compassion and decency of the facilitators.

    Teacher

  • The Soar workshop gave a safe space for students to share information about themselves in a way that was respected. The workshop gave students the confidence to talk about their emotions and challenges that they have faced or are facing. I think the workshops also helped to make students aware that every individual can be facing their own individual challenges and that they need to be mindful and respectful of this before they pass judgement on someone.

    Teacher

  • Excellent format for the workshop. Student led but facilitators were able to encourage the students to open up more. Some students spoke more in the workshop than they have done in school ever.

    Teacher

  • The team were exceptional, and developed an excellent rapport with the students from the outset. They made every effort to provide a safe space and to ensure that each individual student know that their opinions/emotions are valid and important.

    Teacher

  • The Soar team were wonderful, they immediately put the students at ease. The students felt listened to, appreciated and like they had made a real contribution to the workshop.

    Teacher

WE'RE FOR TEENAGERS

WE'RE FOR TEENAGERS

What young people have to say

How would you describe a Soar workshop?

  • Personally I didn't speak, but it's one of the healthiest things that we could have done since ty and I think it should be done more often I think it was a very good experience and I feel I gained a lot from it. It was raw but I feel like I am on a new beginning and it made me closer with people in my year.

    Student

  • It was an interesting experience that I think brought out sides of people we wouldn't typically get to see. It was nice for people to be genuinely vulnerable with each other because that's not an easy thing for anyone to do. I really appreciated this workshop

    Student

  • It was really good. For basically the first time I was encouraged and ready to open up to my class. The way problems and struggles were spoken about was amazing and I felt really safe in the environment made. I also learned a lot about both myself and classmates.

    Student

  • It was so comforting to see my whole class be so honest and not be afraid for once to open up about mental health especially the lads because we often find it hard to talk about our emotions

    Student

  • Positive. It was incredibly healing for so many of my peers.

    Student

  • It was so comforting to see my whole class be so honest and not be afraid for once to open up about mental health especially the lads because we often find it hard to talk about our emotions.

    Student

WE'RE FOR TEENAGERS

WE'RE FOR TEENAGERS

What young people have to say

Please tell us your feedback about our facilitation team.

  • Thank you for treating us like people not numbers I know not everyone loved it but me and the boys hugged for the first time on the break

    Student

  • They were amazing and did incredibly well. I'm all the workshops we’ve done in our TY year, I’ve never really felt that safe.

    Student

  • The facilitation team was absolutely amazing. They used a variety of creative communication skills to help us connect to them. They really made us feel safe and comfortable. I could not recommend them more.

    Student