In 2011, in a headteacher's office, a global good news movement began

Created by Shane Dean with a simple idea — what if young people were taught to look for the good in the world, and share it with the news media? A small group of students took on that challenge. Find the stories that matter. Tell them. Send them out into the world. Guided by professional journalists from the BBC, ITV, Sky News and beyond, they discovered something powerful: News doesn't have to be negative to be important. It just has to be real. Inspired by the values of Jill Dando — kindness, integrity, and humanity — that idea began to grow. And grow. From that one room, it reached Downing Street. It reached the Speaker of the House. It spread across the UK. And then beyond — to places like Malawi. Because this was never just a project. This is The Purple Sheep. A movement.

Young people belonging to Good News Rooms

Today, The Purple Sheep is creating Good News Rooms — spaces that look like real newsrooms, but belong to young people. Ages 4 to 21. Every background. Every starting point. Learning journalism. Building confidence. Practising kindness. Choosing positivity. Aspiration. Belonging. Believing for the impossble. Imaging a better future. Creatiging their own stories. Finding others. flooding the media and communities with good news stories. They don't just report the news. They rewrite it.

There are millions of good stories. This generation is ready to find them.

Telling stories about themselves. About each other. About the good happening in their communities every single day. And those stories don't stay hidden. They are shared with the world through The Good News Post — a growing national and international platform for real, positive storytelling. Because there aren't just a few good stories out there. There are millions. And this generation is ready to find them. Ready to tell them. Ready to live them. The Purple Sheep created it.