Ask The Question CIC thanks Community Foundation For Calderdale for theirgenerous grant

Ask The Question CIC in Hebden Bridge has thanked the Community Foundation For

Calderdale after they awarded them with a £4,950 grant from the general endowment

fund and Kathleen Mary Denham Legacy.

The grant will enable Ask The Question CIC to keep their office open as a safe and

warm space for students to come and study. The grant will also be spent on

paying all equipment, printing resources, hot drinks, after-school snacks and tutor costs.

Ask The Question CIC provides one-to-one tuition and mentorship to children and

teenagers in Calderdale who have experienced adverse childhood experiences, in

particular those who have suffered as a result of abuse, neglect and trauma. They have

worked with over 120 students since they were formally founded in 2017, over half of

which have had experience of local authority care.

Sessions at Ask The Question focus on well-being, social and emotional learning, and

the building of resilience, and aim to improve educational outcomes by providing a

nurturing environment that is safe, secure, flexible, caring and a place where positive

relationships are seen as fundamental. Research shows that children perform

significantly better when they’re tutored one-to-one for their education, compared to

students who are tutored in a traditional classroom setting. Sessions look to enable

students to gain qualifications and increase their employability for the future, enabling

more positive future outcomes for their lives ahead.

Students who attend through Ask The Question have consistently reached their

potential, with every student passing their Maths and English GCSE, and three students

this year going on to attend a Russell Group University. They recently celebrated all of

their 11+ students passing the 11+ exam.

Jo Austin, founder of Ask The Question, said, “Our students often have disruptive

home lives and need our office space to be able to study effectively and happily. Their

peers have this luxury in their own homes and we provide it for our students to ensure

that they have the same stress-free environment to study in so that they can start and

develop their academic journey as a positive experience. Thank you so much to the

Community Foundation for Calderdale for their continued support. It really does mean

the world to us.”