As the charity approaches its 20th anniversary the impact figures for its first 19 years are:
The charity Inspire Schools was founded in 2000 by Kent journalist Simon Dolby with the aim of supporting and promoting green travel to school and health and wellbeing initiatives. At the start the organisation was called the Kent and Medway Walking Bus Group and it was a Club and Society. It became a registered charity is 2004 and changed its name and logo in 2009 to Kent and Medway Charity Team (KM Charity Team) to reflect the broader range of services delivered.
In September 2018 it changed its name to Inspire Schools Educational Foundation as it began expanding into London and the south east. KM Charity Team is still the main brand used by the organisation within Kent but outside of this area Inspire Schools is the only branding used.
Today green travel to school and children’s health and wellbeing is still at the heart of the charity’s activities but now it has a widened remit delivering other services to support schools – and also to provide support to PTA groups and charities to support their fundraising.
In Kent the charity works alongside the KM Group, Kent’s biggest multi-media publisher, to support the organisation’s charitable work whenever the objectives of the two organisations are shared – hence using the KM Charity Team brand.
In Sussex the charity works alongside Johnston Press (Sussex Newspapers).
Services for schools
Services for charities and good causes
Fundraising support for PTA groups and charities
The KM Charity Team stages a range of collaborative events that any good cause can use to support their fundraising. These include:
Please explore this website to discover more about our work or phone 0844 2640291 (lo-call) or email kmcharityteam@thekmgroup.co.uk
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