About Body Happy Org

Our vision is a world where children and young people celebrate, respect and accept ALL bodies – especially their own.

Our Why

More than half of children and young people feel bad about their bodies. This is impacting student wellbeing, engagement in learning and educational outcomes. Despite body image being part of statutory education, schools and caregivers often lack the training, support and systemic understanding to meaningfully address the issue. We’re here to address this.

Our What

We create positive body image environments for children and young people to thrive in.

We believe poor body image is a systemic issue, requiring systemic action and our approach is centred on culture change. We’re currently developing The Body Happy Schools Programme, a pioneering whole school approach that builds classroom cultures of body respect through staff training, student workshops and assemblies, support for parents and caregivers, educational resources and a peer advocacy programme. It's the first of its kind in the UK and is being developed with support from The Fair Education Alliance and The University of Lincoln.

All of our resources, products, education and training programmes promote inclusion and acceptance, celebrate diversity and nurture health and wellbeing in children. 

Our Who

We are an award winning certified Social Enterprise dedicated to social change. There’s a multi-disciplinary team of us, with experts from a range of different fields including health, education and media.

Our founder and Executive Director is author, campaigner and speaker Molly Forbes. Meet the full team here and read our founder story here.

Our How

We have a multi-strand approach to positive social change: arm adults with the resources and education to help children build resilience to the messages that may make them doubt their body, while challenging some of those messages so they never come for kids in the first place.

Through interactive workshops and online courses delivered in an affordable, accessible and relatable way, we educate and inform parents, guardians, teachers (and any adults who are ever around children) with practical tools and information to empower you to create Body Happy settings for the children in your care.

We also sell digital resources for use at home, school and in youth clubs, to help promote positive body image and build resilience to negative messages that may make children doubt their body. 

As well as our digital resources we also create physical products which can be useful tools in themselves, as well as lovely presents and gifts to help build body image resilience in children and teens. Check out our range of books, digital resources and gifting products in the Body Happy Shop here.  

Our Structure

We are a Community Interest Company, which means we are dedicated to creating positive social change. We operate like a business but are regulated by the CIC Regulator to make sure profits are reinvested back into the community we serve: those wishing to create positive body image environments for children. Because we are a Social Enterprise, this means we don’t have large dividends or big bonuses. Our cause is positive social change, not profit.