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Inspire Schools Educational Foundation is a registered charity trading as KM Charity Team and Inspire Schools that delivers literacy, road safety and walk to school initiatives to support schools, families and children – as well as supporting the charitable sector by staging collaborative fundraising events which any cause can use to boost their fundraising. Find out more about us here.

Take a look at our message of thanks to teachers, parents and staff, and meet the team during these extraordinary times:

Visiting one of the four sections of this website will let you view news stories and video reports on the events and services the KM Charity Team stages each year. Below are a sample of the latest reports published. Click one of the picture buttons above to visit a section to see the full details. To find out more about the KM Charity Team click the links at the base of this page.

Pupil transformed by reading reward scheme

Jacob Phillips hated reading. He avoided it with something approaching dedication. But when his school joined the KM Charity Team’s reading reward scheme, he channeled that dedication and buried his head in books instead – and it’s stayed there ever since. The eight-year-old...

Posted On 23 Apr 2018

, By Liz Nicholls

3D Recruit launch Firewalk Buster's Charity Firewalk launched by 3D Recruit

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Dockyard Be the Boss Alexandra takes up post at Boss of Historic Dockyard Chatham

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Panto legend delivers green-travel prize

Panto legend Ben Roddy took time out from preparing for the Marlowe Theatre’s Christmas production of Mother Goose to read to the winners of a green-travel challenge. Ben read Mordicai Gerstein’s The Man Who Walked Between the Towers to the children of Whitstable Junior School...

Posted On 11 Nov 2019

, By Ben Skelton

Buster Awards 2019 Annual awards for reading reward scheme Buster's Book Club

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Green School Awards Launched! 19/20 We have officially opened up the Green School Awards for academic year...

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Children’s charity urges tale-telling

As families the world over face lockdown for the foreseeable future a Kent children’s charity has called for would-be storytellers to help alleviate the stress of isolation. The KM Charity Team,...

Posted On 03 Apr 2020

, By Liz Nicholls

KCF promote COY Kent Community Foundation is a champion for KM Charity of the Year

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Joanna story time at Castilion Aquarius Class win green travel challenge

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Seeking star literacy schemes

Schools using successful ways to encourage children to read, write and love the English language could be in line for a Kent Literacy Award. Any primary, secondary, or special school in Kent can enter – and there is a wide range of categories to choose from including most...

Posted On 17 Mar 2020

, By Liz Nicholls

Quiz challenge for pub triv pretenders

Come and have a go if you think your quiz credentials are hard enough. The KM Charity Team is throwing down the gauntlet to pub quiz teams across east Kent, daring them to put their trivia bona...

Posted On 12 Mar 2020

, By Ben Skelton

KM charities set for a happy New Year

Eight good causes awarded KM Charity of the Year 2020 status are anticipating an action-packed year thanks to Kent multimedia company the KM Group. Each editor at the newspaper group, along with...

Posted On 17 Dec 2019

, By Liz Nicholls

Charity worker wins festive ferry-trip prize

A charity employee and her family are off to France after winning a special festive competition with the KM Charity Team. As a seasonal gesture of thanks to its supporters and beneficiaries,...

Posted On 11 Dec 2019

, By Ben Skelton

Simon moving to Streetspace

Tim Deacon, MD of Streetspace, welcomes Simon Dolby to the team. KM Charity Team CEO Simon Dolby has told Kent Business he is leaving the charity he founded in 2000 to take on a post at a construction company in the county. Mr Dolby said he was delighted to be joining...

Posted On 07 Aug 2019

, By buster

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Superhero art is absolutely Marvel-lous

Wow. Just wow. Take a look at these awesome superhero pictures. Aren’t they absolutely amazing? They’re the work of children at primary schools across Kent and Bexley, and were submitted for a special art competition run by the KM Charity Team. Pupils were asked to create...

Posted On 22 Aug 2019

, By Ben Skelton