Social Impact

Confident communication should not be a privilege. It should belong to everyone.

Helping Every Child Find Their Voice

Every child deserves the confidence to  speak up, regardless of background, ability  or circumstance. We aim to address one of  the most common barriers to opportunity:  the fear of speaking. By building confident communication early, and embedding it through schools and educators, we help ensure a child’s voice does not become something that holds them back later in education, work or life.

How Our Impact Grows

Our social purpose becomes real in classrooms, staffrooms and communities. When confidence is supported early and consistently, the effects ripple outward over time.

Impact on Teachers and Schools

When teachers feel confident teaching speaking, pupils feel safer using their voice. This creates classrooms and schools where communication is modelled, encouraged and normalised, benefiting not just current pupils, but future generations.

Confidence and Social Mobility

By building confidence early, we address one of the biggest barriers to social mobility: the fear of speaking up. When opportunity depends on communication, those without early support are often left behind. Our work helps pupils speak clearly and confidently so their voice never holds them back.

Wider Societal Impact

When all children learn to speak with confidence, we hear a wider range of voices shaping the future. Confident communication should not be a privilege for those who access it early in life. It should belong to everyone, and our work helps make that possible.

Leadership presence and voice

Build calm, credible communication in key leadership moments.

Building confidence across teams, not just senior roles

Help more people speak clearly, contribute and be heard.

Testimonials

Hear from parents, teachers and school communities who have seen the difference confident communication can make.

Thank you for a great understanding of what our children are learning; we can take all those ideas back into our classroom.

Teacher

Great CPD and self-development session – I loved it.

Teacher

Lots of practical for ourselves without being put ‘on the spot’ – so non-threatening.

Teacher

How we can incorporate public speaking into our classrooms – easily done.

Teacher

Informative to know what our children are doing with speech.

Teacher

It was good to see how the training can impact us as staff as well as the children we teach.

Teacher

Good to use in forthcoming assemblies.

Teacher

Made me reflect on my own practice.

Teacher

Great chance to be involved without fear of embarrassment.

Teacher

Good frontal pairs for public speaking.

Teacher

Interesting to see how it would be run in the rest of the school.

Teacher

Lots of good ideas for how to deliver the programme.

Teacher

Great presentation that had all the details.

Teacher

The structure of speech and information about question technique was very useful.

Teacher

The standing position works very well – I felt more confident.

Teacher

We are looking forward to using the programme in class.

Teacher

Friendly, engaging and enjoyable session.

Teacher

Very interactive, useful, purposeful session.

Teacher

Perhaps ideas of activities to incorporate into Y1 or even EYFS.

Teacher

Encourages participation – makes you think from the child’s perspective.

Teacher

We love the idea of the children always speaking in unison to help with the shy, less confident ones.

Teacher

We really like the scheme and feel we can incorporate it into our curriculum. The manuals explain it clearly.

Teacher

I enjoyed the learning this afternoon.

Children

I feel able to speak out in a crowd and stand tall with firm feet on the ground.

Children

I am very grateful for your teachings.

Children

Public speaking has really helped me at year 7.

Children

I have learnt to speak up.

Children

Since taking part in the workshop, I have improved using body language to express myself.

Children

I am now more confident in myself and speaking louder.

Children

I do not mumble anymore; I am confident to talk in class.

Children

I have learnt to use expression in my voice when talking to engage the audience.

Children

I could not pronounce English very well before Mighty Oak lessons.

Children

I feel braver now

Children