Celebrating our Barnsley volunteers

The King’s Award for Voluntary Service is the UK’s highest award for local voluntary groups and is equivalent to an MBE. For us, it honours the people who give their time and expertise to help children learn about body safety.

Here in Barnsley, we develop free songs, stories and activities that help children learn that their bodies belong to them, their feelings matter and they can ask a safe grown-up for help.

From Barnsley to the world

Our lessons help families and educators start conversations about body safety before a child has a worry to share. Children learn that their feelings matter and that they can keep asking for help until someone listens. It’s up to the adults around them to listen, take their worries seriously and help keep them safe. Families and educators around the world have told us that children are putting what they learn through our songs and activities into practice. They’ve described children finding the words to explain that something didn’t feel right and feeling able to ask a trusted adult for help. We practise simple phrases such as “I don’t feel comfortable” and “Can you help me?” so children have words to draw on when something worries them.

3 million+

children reached

63+

countries

35

languages