Empathy Day
Thursday 6 June - Empathy Day 2024
ANNOUNCEMENTS
See the full line up for Empathy Day Live! 2024 HERE
The Empathy Day 2024 toolkits & resources are OUT NOW - register HERE
Learn more about the brand new Mission Empathy Challenge
We're cooking up lots of exciting plans that we can't wait to share - more to come soon!
Lineup announcements for Empathy Day Live!
From 7.30am on Thursday 6 June, we're back with our FREE online festival! Watch our mix of live and pre-recorded events in your class, library or home. Plan your viewing here.
Throughout the day, we'll be joined by a brilliant lineup of authors & illustrators modelling the Mission Empathy challenge to inspire you. Keep your eyes peeled on our socials this week - we'll be sharing this year's fantastic events and participants.
Making the most of our interactive events
For the first time this year, we'll be holding live and interactive events! During each of them, schools will have the chance participate in different ways. If you can prepare certain activities in advance, it will help you get the most out of the event.
- Key Stage 1 groups: bring Empathy Resolutions
- Key Stage 2 groups: bring Empathy Resolutions, empathy-building book recommendations & a word on the day to describe how you're feeling
- Key Stage 3 groups: bring Empathy Resolutions, empathy-building book recommendations & a word on the day to describe how you're feeling
All the day's activities are taken from the Mission Empathy Challenge. The best way to get ready is to begin the challenge now - learn more and register for FREE activity resources here.
OUT NOW: Empathy Day 2024 Toolkits & Resources!
The FREE Empathy Day resources are out now! These gorgeous 2024 toolkits are packed with ideas and resources to help children and young people of all ages celebrate and develop their empathy superpower, aand take part in the NEW Mission Empathy Challenge.
Register here to get them sent straight to your inbox - the first 300 organisations
to sign up will win a free book for their setting!
Download Empathy Day Resources
Note: this is a select list. For the full range of free resources, register here
Poster - Empathy Definition
Empathy Resolution Bunting
Empathy Superpower Glasses
Empathy Bookshelf Header
Empathy Exchange Prompts
Empathy Emotions Map
Mission Empathy 2024
We’re inviting everyone to join a NEW Mission Empathy Challenge for 2024. Charge up your empathy superpower in three simple steps: Read. Connect. Act. Remember to download the FREE Read for Empathy 2024 collection - you can use the books in your activities!
More information coming soon.
What is Empathy Day?
Empathy Day celebrates and grows empathy's power to create a better world.
It shines a light on books’ role in raising an empathy-educated generation.
Empathy Day inspires children to learn more about empathy, have transformational experiences
through stories, and to put empathy into action!
Our Supporters
Empathy Day is supported by Meaden & Moore and the Postcode Society Trust (a grant-giving charity funded entirely by players of People’s Postcode Lottery).
Our mission is to reach over 1 million children a year by 2026
More ways to get involved
Every November, Empathy Action Month provides a month-long opportunity for schools, libraries and families to focus on putting empathy into action, using the Empathy Resolutions they set during Empathy Day, as a powerful way of prompting change and social action. Learn more about our 2023 activity here.
Use our expertly created resources with children and young people:
We've Got This! Our Empathy Handbook
Buy our non-fiction book for ages 7+ written by Rashmi Sirdeshpande and published by Quarto Kids. Containing SIX simple steps to building your empathy SUPERPOWER. Buy here and watch the book's launch panel here.
Our exclusive 500-word short stories with an empathy focus, written by a host of amazing authors and illustrators. Click here to read them.
Empathy Emotions Maps are designed to help young people build empathic communication skills, naming and sharing emotions. Visit our Gallery to see the full collection of maps by amazing illustrators.