Starting in 2015, we worked with 11 very different UK schools, from a state primary in a deprived area of Sheffield to a London secondary and a small Hertfordshire prep school. Other schools were in Great Yarmouth, Carlisle, Cambridge, Newark, Rochdale and the New Forest.

The findings in our 2016-2018 evaluation report were extremely encouraging, finding that an increased empathy focus had an impact in key academic areas and showing that an empathy education programme has huge potential.

• 75% of teachers reported that children were calmer and less stressed
• 100% reported that children could more easily name and share emotions
• 87% said they had observed an increase in the frequency of children reading
• 100% of teachers reported that children had developed a far better understanding of what empathy is, how it works and why it matters.
• Behavioural improvements – one school, after a year of the programme, reported a drop in behaviour incidents from 147 to 87