Friday, September 4, 2026

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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Overview

What happens when students are trusted to lead something bigger than themselves? Across Australia, thousands of primary and secondary students step into authentic leadership each year through the World’s Greatest Shave, a school-based social impact campaign supporting Australians living with blood cancer. This session explores how participation in purpose-driven fundraising equips emerging student leaders with confidence, collaboration skills and agency to mobilise their peers and create meaningful change. Drawing on the Leukaemia Foundation’s work with schools nationwide, we will share practical approaches to student-led campaigning that build wellbeing, belonging and real-world capabilities across diverse learners and age groups. Educators will learn how the World’s Greatest Shave provides a supported, curriculum-connected framework for student voice, service learning and project-based leadership from primary through secondary years. We will map participation to key Summit priorities including wellbeing for future-focused schools, early leadership development, and classroom-to-community learning, while demonstrating how schools are scaffolded every step of the way with ready-to-use resources, planning tools, educator support and new interactive events that build community. Attendees will leave with tangible strategies to help students plan, lead and sustain school-wide movements that strengthen social responsibility, empathy and teamwork — empowering the next generation to move from inspiration to action, while also raising awareness and critical funds for Australians with blood cancer. And having a lot of fun along the way!

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