Community Engagement
At Kids Inspire, our Community Engagement team works alongside communities across Essex and Suffolk to support children, young people and their families, build strong local relationships, and raise awareness of our mental health services.
What do we do?
Our Community Engagement work currently focuses on:
supporting low income families
exploring the use of our new film, The Coat, with secondary schools
expanding and developing The Voice, our weekly youth group
Organising free Holiday Clubs during school holidays
Our Community Engagement team’s current focus areas are:
Chelmsford, Colchester, Tendring and Ipswich.
Why community engagement matters
Community Engagement is key to how Kids Inspire grows its support.
We nurture our existing relationships while often being the first team to work in new areas. This includes raising awareness of Kids Inspire and building trusted connections with local schools, families and communities.
This early work helps us understand local need and remove barriers to support. It also opens the door for our wider services, including our Therapy teams, to reach more children and families.
Community events
Our Community Engagement Team identifies areas where children and young people need support and partners with local organisations to deliver events that benefit the community.
Recent highlights
Working in schools
We’re currently reviewing and developing our Community Engagement work with schools.
Our work within education is focused on schools with students, who receive pupil premium, are from low-income families, and are located within our identified focus areas of Essex and Suffolk. If you are in doubt as to whether we could support your school, please get in touch via communityengagement@kidsinspire.org.uk.
Assemblies and workshops
At present, we’re not booking new assemblies or workshops while we focus on creating new content built around our film The Coat. Updates on our schools programme will be shared soon.
Free primary school resources
Our team has put together a range of free mental health and wellbeing resources for primary school children. Inspired by the PSHE curriculum, these resources are predominantly aimed at Year 5 and Year 6 pupils, helping to support important conversations around emotional wellbeing, resilience and mental health.
Created to accompany our short film The Coat, these resources use creative activities, discussion prompts and drawing exercises to help children explore thoughts, feelings and experiences around mental health in an engaging and accessible way.
Designed for use with groups of children in schools, community settings and other educational environments, these resources are free to download.
Complete the form to receive your free download
The Voice youth group
Learn more about our weekly youth group for young people 12-18.
Holiday Clubs
Supporting children’s wellbeing during the school holidays.
Our latest Impact Poster
A snapshot of how our work is supporting children, families and schools.
Page updated: 13 August 2026