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Last year, we concluded the second round of funding through the PHF Arts Fund. Looking at the organisations we have supported through this round, we see a sustained commitment to artistic freedom, to working across difference and to celebrating places and communities across the UK.

The Key believes every young person deserves the chance to overcome barriers to personal growth and to shape a better future for all. Through their structured yet flexible model, young people build skills, confidence, and resilience — developing the agency to make meaningful contributions in their local areas.

Reflecting on scoring an ​‘A’ overall in the Foundation Practice Rating for the fourth year running. 

We are part of a group of organisations collaborating on a new £3.4m initiative announced today.

Pat Cochrane and Vicky Storey, evaluation support consultants for rounds 3–8 of the Teacher Development Fund, reflect on the differing approaches to evaluation across TDF projects and share some of the ways that colleagues have enabled genuine exploration and learning as an integral part of the process.

TDF evaluation consultants, Pat Cochrane and Vicky Storey, speak with three senior leaders from recent Teacher Development Fund programmes to explore their role within the evaluation of their projects. Together, they discuss how senior leaders can lead and sustain evaluation processes to shape programme development and enhance professional learning outcomes.

Sarah Eastaff, Director of Creative Learning at darts, and Helena Honeybone, Headteacher at Town Field Primary School, reflect on the benefits of their collaborative approach to their Teacher Development Fund evaluation, sharing their learning from the process and its ongoing impact on their organisations.

Helen Barnett, Creative Director, Trestle Theatre, offers insight into their collaborative evaluation approach for their Teacher Development Fund project, partnering with the University of Hertfordshire. With co-creation built in from the start, Helen reflects on the benefits of working so closely with their partner and shares the many ways that the project communicated their learning within and beyond the programme.

Our founder, the publisher and philanthropist Paul Hamlyn, was born on this day in 1926. Today, we remember his life and legacy and how it shapes our work.