Our objectives in 2025

The Foundation is delighted to announce its priority work areas for 2025. We invite expressions of interest from charities, skilled practitioners and others to partner with us in helping us bring the benefits of better listening to all.

Enhanced listening workshops – call for Delivery Partners

Working with and through our partners and their beneficiary audiences we will continue to refine our core workshops, supporting individuals to develop a deeper appreciation of listening, gaining valuable skills as well as a range of outcomes associated with personal empowerment or professional development.

If you have an audience who would benefit, get in touch. We are open to working in diverse fields, but would particularly welcome discussions with:

• groups supporting young people pursuing employability outcomes;
• marginalised or excluded individuals, whose voices are often unheard; and
• professionals working in educational or health and care settings.

You would be responsible for engaging beneficiaries and securing the setting. We will work with you to design and deliver/co-deliver a bespoke session, tailored to your outcomes.

For an exploratory conversation please contact us with a short outline of your idea or proposals. If you’d like a deeper sense of how we work with partners, take a look at our recent case study working with the National Literacy Trust at Askham Grange Women’s Prison.

Developing bespoke curriculums – call for Education Partners

We’re keen to make the assets of The Collection available to schools and educational institutions, supporting their own learning and research objectives.

An early example of this has been our partnership with the Shireland Collegiate Academy, in Birmingham. The ‘Sounds of Science’ project, created by Evelyn, Historian Christopher Lloyd and Composer Jill Jarman, has developed a cross-curricular thread for 5-18 year olds in formal education, formatted by Sir Mark Grundy and implemented from September 2023.

The programme invites students to consider how humanity has been driven to learn, invent, discover, examine and react to the forces of the universe, to survive and thrive together.

Supporting your workforce through enhanced listening practice

Having piloted a number of tours and workshops for corporate teams at our premises in 2024, we are ready to open up this service to employers in 2025.

Deliverable on site or remotely on your premises, employers have told us they highly value the strong team bonding generated, as well as the opportunity to elevate the importance of good listening to support their business objectives, whether improving internal communication with colleagues or becoming more responsive to customers externally.

Contact us for more information

Do reach out to us to express your interest in working with us on a workshop, a product for your school or for more information and prices on a bespoke listening workshop for your company.