Steve MBE: Adventurer and Motivational Speaker for Schools

We had the pleasure of Steve Hill visiting our school to speak to Years 7-10. What an inspirational man that everybody in the theatre could learn something from. His attitude of dreaming big and aiming high is what every pupil and member of staff at Hollingworth Academy should aspire to do. As he said, “Don’t be put off by the doubters or the knockers who say you can’t! Turn I can’t into I can and you can achieve anything”. The charity work that Steve is doing in Uganda and locally is exceptional…. Good luck Steve in your next adventure.

In the time I have known Steve Hill, he has undertaken many challenges that few would even consider, never mind take part in. Following on from this, he truly inspires everyone he meets, especially his year 6 students in his class each year. Steve became one of our Gold Award Presenters, undertaking this role at St James’s Palace last year, to share his inspirational challenges to recipients of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award. The feedback we received from this was a true reflection on what an inspiration Steve is and his ‘can do’ attitude. Having also presented at Holyrood House Palace in Edinburgh in the Summer, we have again asked him to present back at St James’s Palace next week having completed his latest challenge of climbing Mount Toubkal. I would have no hesitation in recommending Steve to present, inspire and motivate you with his remarkable and humble story of his challenges.

I write with great admiration of Steven Hill MBE, who is a Deputy Head in a Primary School in Greater Manchester with an extraordinary story. This coupled with his passion and dedication to supporting others is what has left a lasting memory upon our academy. At Wise Owl Trust we are advocates of Character Education and teach our children the character behaviour traits of Resilience, Empathy, Self-Awareness, Positivity, Excellence and Teamwork through the life stores of inspirational people. Through Steve’s remarkable adventures across the globe, we asked him to speak to our whole school community. Steve was more than willing and gave up his own time to do this. His stories and the lessons he shared with us had a great impact on children and staff alike. Staff were inspired and it gave them personally new goals to set. The children were heard saying things like ‘when can Steve come back?’ and ‘Can we go on an adventure with Steve?’