2023 Unwrapped

Inspired by Industry

Event Attendance

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We launched our first twelve KS3 contexts within 'inspired by industry' to address the needs of the D&T curriculum with key industry partners. These are currently free for use with additional member-only content.

Launched new training courses and events at key and made them accessible to teachers, increasing attendance. We have had 1,868 teachers either attend in person or online.

2023

Resource Downloads

Website Visitors

What a great year!

29,124

1 million+

174k

29,124

= 98%

New Users

Page Views

Downloads

Free Downloads

Lobbying for the Subject

D&T Excellence Awards

We have carried out extensive lobbying work in response to the Education Policy Institute (EPI) Paper ‘A spotlight on D&T education in England’. This included two appearances at the House of Lords select committee and meetings in 9 cities across the UK in June.

We held our inspirational D&T Excellence Awards Ceremony at Aerospace Bristol below iconic Concorde. We celebrated 13 award winners and had an excellent keynote speech from Ben Edmonds.

What we haveachieved...

Support D&T Teachers

We're actively working to ensure the continued vitality of design and technology for students nationwide. Our aim is to make sure every young learner has the opportunity to engage with it as a valuable part of their comprehensive curriculum. Interested in our accomplishments so far in 2023? Explore some of the highlights!

SCITT Training

Delivered two SCITT Training

Supported MATs, Trusts and Education Partnerships, providing D&T support & resources to their teams with INSET or Consultancy in 2023.

Membership Growth and Retention

2022/3

2019

2020

2021

33,000members

27,000 members

13,000 members

19,000 members

Attracted 437 delegates on our free webinars.

Designed for Life Podcasts

Health & Safety Accreditations

Free Webinars

Elevated D&T through powerful discussions in our Designed for Life podcast, with 24,500 downloads, 22 new episodes, downloaded by nearly 7,000 people across 29 countries and 236 cities across the world.

We have issued nearly 7,000 (6,922) H&S certificates, helping to keep schools in the UK compliant.

We offered a selection of free webinars for our members on a range of topics including CAD packages, engineering, competitions and updates.

Blueprint 1000

SEN Symbols

Supporting Industry

Helped almost 30 companies achieve their education objectives with schools through Blueprint 1000.

We developed SEN Symbols in collaboration with Widgit for individuals with learning disabilities, offering 80 downloadable PDF symbols related to D&T (40 for all and additional 40 for members)

Supported member organisations such as Dyson, Seymour Powell and more, ensuring a positive impact on design and technology.

Student Advisory Group

International Network Meetings

Education

Industry

Two meetings held with 19 students. More meetings in the pipeline for 2024.

Because design and innovation matter

International Members

We have held international network meetings to build a group of overseas teachers sharing information and supporting teachers delivering Design and Technology across the world. 35 attendees from international membership

Student Advisory Group

Students in the advisory group vary in age from Year 7 to Year 13 and offer an opportunity for young people to voice their opinions in addition to teachers. It has been an opportunity to get a fresh perspective from a group made up of enthusiastic and inspiring students who have a passion for D&T.

If you know a student who may be interested or if you would like to find out more please contact:

lol.conway@designtechnology.org.uk

Event Reach

Non-specialist courses: 2 Delegates: 21 Live digital courses: 43 Delegates: 369 Face-to-face courses: 28 Delegates: 244 Free webinars: 32 Delegates: 437 Lobbying consultations: 10 Delegates: 241 Live podcasts: 3 Delegates: 89 E-Learning courses: 18 Delegates: 467 INSET Delivered: 30