Write Back Storytelling

Write Back Storytelling - 2025/26

Signing up your school for storytelling next year!
Just a couple of questions about who is filling out this form!
Name*

First NameLast Name
Email*
example@example.com
Your role in the school*
School*

Referral Programme to Future Youth Zone

We are delighted to be offering our storytelling programme at the amazing Future Youth Zone to more young people. Please let us know how you'd like to work with us over the next year.
Firstly, please let us know who the 'lead teacher' would be at your school. This is the staff member responsible for making the referrals to Write Back and informing students of the opportunity.
Would you be the lead teacher at your school?*
Name of Lead Teacher

First NameLast Name
Email of Lead Teacher
example@example.com
Role of Lead Teacher
What type of programme would the school like to subscribe to in the academic year 2025-26? (Please note: additional students can be added each term at £25 per student.)*

Referring two students per term (6 students over the year) - £150 total cost for the year.Referring three students per term (9 students over the year) - £225 total cost for the year.Referring four students per term (12 student over the year) - £300 total cost for the year.
Name of Finance Officer (to send invoice)*
Email of Finance Officer (to send invoice)*
example@example.com
In School Programmes

We are delighted that in addition to our provision at Future Youth Zone we will also be running in school storytelling programmes in a limited number of borough schools. If you are interested in finding out more and would like your school to be considered then please indicate so below.
Are you interested in storytelling programmes within your school?*

Yes, tell me more.No, we'll stick to the referrals.I have already completed the in school programme application.

In School Storytelling Programme

Our brand new offer for 2025/26
Do you have a cohort of young people who you want to reach within your school and prove to them that their stories are being heard?

We are currently running a pastoral focused programme at Jo Richardson Community School to build Year 8 students' self-esteem, develop their self-expression through writing and improve engagement with school.

We are opening this opportunity for more schools to experience a tailored 10 week project including group storytelling workshops, 1-1 coaching support, and the public celebration and publication of their stories. The programmes could support a range of student needs, for example EAL, SEND, low literacy, social and emotional support across KS3 to KS5.

Our proposed model is an alternating model across 10 weeks where in the odd weeks, young people receive 1-1 20 minute coaching session from an experienced Write Back facilitator and mentor and then in the even weeks the whole group assembles for a collective storytelling workshop. At the end of the project we will then run a celebration for the participants for the storytellers, their peers, teachers and families.

We have already secured part funding of these in-school programmes from successful applications to Spectris Foundation, Parks Trust and the Mercers' Charitable Foundation and this means we can fund over 50% of the costs of these programmes. However, schools would need to contribute £2000 which cover the costs of publishing and printing the young people's work, resources for the sessions and the time of two highly experienced educators who would facilitate the project.

Please note that we only have limited spaces for these programmes and so completion of this form is not a guarantee that we can deliver a project like this this year in your school. We apologise if this is not possible this time.
Who would you like us to work with?*
Please provide the details of who you would ideally like us to work with, whether it's a specific cohort of students in a certain year group (e.g. Year 10s identified by the Pastoral Team), with shared needs (e.g. EAL students in Year 8) or experiences (e.g. Year 12 students studying English A Level). Note: we like to work with a small group of around 10 young people so that they can receive 1-1 coaching as well as form a close small group of storytellers. If you have multiple cohorts in mind, please list them.
What are the main impacts you are hoping a storytelling intervention would deliver for these young people?*
This helps us to plan an impactful and relevant programme for your students.
When could a programme run in your school? (Please select as many as apply, though we capping schools to one programme a year).*

Sep to Dec 2025Jan to Mar 2026May to July 2026
When could the sessions run?*
We appreciate that it may not be possible to identify times yet for sessions, however the more information you can provide the better - including if you know when sessions can't run. We strongly advice running these sessions in curriculum time so that some young people who might not be likely to attend an extracurricular project can benefit. We typically require between an hour and two hours a week depending on whether it is the week of group workshops or 1-1 coaching.
Do you know how you would fund this work?
We can fund over 50% of the costs of these programmes. However, schools would need to contribute £2000. If you know which budget this would come from then please jot this down here. Do not worry if you do not know this yet.
Is there anything else you would like us to know?
Anything we've missed out or you'd like us to know before we go away and draft some proposals for the selected schools?
Separate to this we run our long-standing referral programme to Future Youth Zone. Would you like to refer young people to us?

Yes, tell me more.No, we are only interested in the in school programme.I have already completed the referral application.

Submission

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Write Back Storytelling - 2025/26

Referral Programme to Future Youth Zone

In School Storytelling Programme

Submission