Digital Wellbeing

Supporting young people digitally

ID YOU recognise the challenges of being a young person and how hard it can be to make the right choices. Through their workshops, ID YOU explores all aspects of life and wants to give young people the tools to help navigate their school years. The key theme throughout many of the workshops is addressing the importance of digital wellbeing and what that looks like. We know that our online worlds can become overwhelming and intense if not managed properly and ID YOU gives students the chance to address the impact of their digital lives and how they can be managed.

Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation

Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation (RNCSF) secures fully funded bursary places at an independent day or boarding school, providing life changing education for children from disadvantaged and vulnerable backgrounds across the UK.

These placements help to keep vulnerable children safe from risks and provide the relationships and academic enrichment they need to build happy, stable futures.

We encourage young people to have pride in who they are and to be confident in themselves. We are not anti-tech but we are pro-childhood. We have seen first-hand the damage that excess social media can have on young people: it can affect all aspects of their lives, from sleep to friendships. All young people need to understand and recognise the impact of excess tech use. Giving young people the ability to value their wellbeing is vital in order for them to flourish; we know that so many youngsters really struggle with keeping well mentally and ID YOU aims to provide a safe space for young people to share their concerns.

KATE WEST Founder, ID YOU www.idyou.org.uk

Local authorities and charities supporting families involved with social care refer young people for the opportunity, and RNCSF works to link them to available bursary places in more than 200 partner schools across the UK’s independent school sector. For more information about the impact of our work and how to support visit:

“We are so very grateful for everything RNCSF has done to assist and indeed spearhead something which we were totally unaware of. The effect on our family life is significant and on the boys’ lives unmeasurable.”

~ Kinship Carer

Boarding places can help keep families together, allowing children in care to remain with birth relatives in the holidays to avoid foster care or children’s homes. Independent day school places – also with their longer school day and wider curriculum offering – can provide the much-needed opportunity for vulnerable children to thrive outside of the classroom.

RNCSF has ambitious plans to transform 2,000 young lives through its partnerships by 2028. All donations and legacy pledges go directly to support vulnerable children accessing the bursary placements. Gifts have a multiplier effect with every £1 donated leveraging around £9 of support from independent schools themselves.

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