About Peace Hive

My name is Valentine. I’m an 11-year-old Australian schoolgirl who started Peace Hive and the Matilda Bee Bracelet Project in honour of the beautiful Matilda Bee Britvan, the 10-year-old girl killed in the Bondi terror attack on December 14th, 2025. My initial goal with the bracelet sales was to get the Britvan family, including Matilda’s surviving little sister, Summer, to Disneyland.

After only a few weeks, thousands of bracelets, each handmade with my busy hands and the support of several working bees, have already been sent out across Australia and all around the world - raising over $75,000

Long term, Peace Hive will honour all lives lost to any act of hate, including bullying, acts of terror and domestic violence, while educating young people on compassion, inclusion and unity, the values I believe must live louder than hate. 

To achieve these aims, Peace Hive has grown into a student-led wellbeing and kindness program. Every purchase helps fund Peace Hive's free wellbeing, values & character development program for schools.

Each bee worn symbolises peace, honours victims of the Bondi attack, and declares "never again".

Kind regards, 

Valentine
But you can call me Valley

 

WHAT IS PEACE HIVE?


Peace Hive is a free student-led wellbeing and kindness initiative designed to help children practise empathy, inclusion, kindness, community and equality in their daily school lives. It integrates into existing pastoral care and wellbeing structures with minimal preparation.


Core Values: P.E.A.C.E.

  • ⁠Peace: Creating calm, respectful environments
  • Empathy: Understanding and caring for others’ feelings
  • Acceptance: Welcoming all students and differences
  • Community: Building connection and belonging
  • Equality: Treating everyone fairly and with respect


Why Peace Hive?


Peace Hive is inspired by authentic youth leadership and celebrates everyday kindness as a trait that belongs everywhere in life. Our school toolkit brings these values into daily classroom moments, the school playground and beyond.

'Peace doesn't begin with adults. It begins with us (children).'


When children learn and practise peace values like kindness and empathy at home and school, they grow into compassionate adults, and the world becomes a kinder place for everyone.


What started as one girl's heartfelt act of remembrance has evolved into Peace Hive, a free student-led wellbeing and kindness toolkit for schools, now co-led by Valentine alongside her older brother, Harry Meyerson. Peace Hive and the Matilda Bee Bracelet Project has been recognised by national media (Sky News, 2GB, Triple M, Daily Telegraph, Sunrise), radio hosts Mark Levy and Ben Fordham, musician Ben Lee, Former Senator Hollie Hughes, MP Kellie Sloane, and Mayors Sarah Dixson (Woollahra Council) and Jesse Fitzpatrick (Wingecarribee Shire).


The Peace Hive initiative supports schools in meeting key wellbeing and curriculum-aligned outcomes:

  • PDHPE: Emotional literacy, social skills, positive relationships
  • ⁠Australian Curriculum: Personal and Social Capability (self-awareness, social awareness, ethical understanding)


By embedding P.E.A.C.E. values into daily school life, Peace Hive helps students build resilience, empathy, kindness and belonging, essential skills for becoming compassionate people that last a lifetime.


Student outcomes:

  • Develop empathy and emotional literacy, learning to recognise and express feelings in themselves and others
  • Demonstrate inclusion and respect, practising positive peer interactions across diverse groups.
  • Strengthen social capability, building resilience, teamwork and compassion in daily school life.
  • Translate values into action, leading and participating in acts of peace and kindness that benefit peers and the wider community
  • Foster belonging and care, helping build a sense of unity, safety and collective responsibility.
  • Reflect on behaviour and growth, considering how words and actions influence others and shape personal wellbeing goals.

Peace Hive is non-political, non-religious and inclusive of all students. It is intentionally free, practical and easy to implement, with no fundraising, and minimal preparation required. Schools can adapt it flexibly to suit their culture and capacity.
We are currently inviting a select group of schools to express their interest in joining the Peace Hive pilot program. We would be honoured to include your school and share the draft toolkit that is currently in development, or to answer any questions you may have.


Thank you for the vital role you play in building safe, inclusive and compassionate school communities.

 

 

 

References to Matilda and any other victims of the Bondi attack are for historical/origins context only; no legal affiliation.