2020 Change is a youth empowerment organisation renowned for helping young people realise their true potential and cultivate the right mind-set to engage with today's changing society.

Our multi-award winning program "I Am Change" uses alternative education to help young black people discover and fulfil their potential enabling them to live purposeful lives. We help develop self-confidence that empowers each of our candidates to become the best versions of themselves. We help to create a smooth transition from education to the workforce by offering work experience, internships and ongoing mentoring. "Teaching young people what they don't learn in school."

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The organisation was born out of concern at the continuing escalation of self-destructive and anti-social behaviour among young men from every section of society, together with the realisation that any meaningful and sustainable solution entails the reclamation of shared local responsibility.

One of the key ways in which we are different is that through creating and supporting contemporary rites of passage for adolescents.

One of the key ways in which abandofbrothers is different is that we offer mentoring for young men in our communities within the context of a contemporary and intensive rite of passage journey.

The experience itself invites young men to draw a line under their adolescence and begin to both consider and move towards becoming the adult man they wish to be.

The journey is held and guided by trained older men from the local community. This is vital, as the young men are immersed in a strong field of healthy masculinity and role models. Here they can draw upon a vast pool of life experience and wisdom from committed older men who come from a range of diverse backgrounds.

Our wider intentions are:

*To create community by engaging and training adult men to act as mentors and allies for local young men; thereby bridging the perilous divide that exists between generations of males
*To ensure that all young men have the opportunity to be recognised, acknowledged and welcomed into adulthood through a community sponsored rites of passage experience
*To encourage a search for meaning and purpose in life that's grounded in appreciation ad respect for nature and humanity, rather than adherence to any particular religion; thus enabling men from different backgrounds, beliefs and faiths to connect in a deeper, more meaningful way
*To facilitate greater understanding that "hurt people, hurt people." We address the hurt carried by men directly, so that they are less likely to hurt others. Cognitive training programmes can be very useful, but all the employability training in the world cannot enable a young man with chronic anger or self esteem issues to find or hold down a job
*To recognise that the "problem" of young men is not just a problem with young men but rather is rooted in the wider societal context of their lives

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We guide employers through the welfare to work and criminal justice system and guarantee that if you recruit from A Fairer Chance, you will know everything you need to know to make an informed decision. We design and deliver employment and skills brokerage and training services in partnership with employers.

• Our Employer Account Management team, have on-going relationships with large and small employers across the retail, construction, rail and facilities management and utility services.

• Draw applicants who we prepare, screen and match from London Probation, Working Links, Jobcentre Plus, the Police, DWP Work Programme and also from the voluntary and community sector.

• We deliver training workshops centred on effective employer engagement and how to effectively make an ex-offender ready for the labour market and caseload management.

Operating principally in the Luton and Bedfordshire area, Att10tive Social Enterprise has been established to deliver training, support and advice to a range of public, private and charitable organisations such as businesses, Schools, colleges and Local Authorities as well as charities and voluntary groups,. They also feature a number of projects and videos which those working in London might find useful.

Our mission is to build cohesion and encourage communities to work in harmony. Through our activities, we encourage people to show respect, consideration and empathy to others particularly those who come from different cultures, ethnicities, religions and areas to themselves.

Our project has the aim of bringing communities and people together, often people from organisations and individuals who would not usually have the opportunity to meet.

In addition running events and projects allows us to provide leadership skills and life skills to the coordinators. Additional life skills include adaptability, teamwork, project planning, critical thinking, communication skills, presentation skills and event management.

An example is Culture Storm which is our first project. People took part from a wide range of places as well  as  independent individuals The aim of this was to bring people together who would never normally meet. This included people from youth groups, colleges ,the University's cheerleading team, performers and dancers. Culture storm was a riot of performance, music ,dance and film.

Autus is a small charity creating exciting opportunities for growth, learning and work for young people with Autistic Spectrum Conditions.

Using our innovative and engaging virtual environment we offer a range of programmes and activities to help build confidence and develop social communication, digital and employability skills. Winners of Youth Employability Awards and London Youth Accredited Quality Mark.

Academy Achievers is a not-for-profit organisation, set up with an aim to improve the quality of life for local young people ‘in and around Newham’ by offering excellent services which provide a range of Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) informal educational, social, emotional, cultural, health and wellbeing and recreational opportunities. In addition, we provide training, consulting and informal advice to our users on a wide range of issues, at the same time signposting them to the appropriate services for further information. Academy Achievers is a place where young people from diverse backgrounds come to socialise, learn, have fun and meet new friends. Our approach is rooted in good multiagency working and close working with communities, in developing and enhancing our program and adapting to emerging needs and new initiatives. To achieve this there are structured programs coupled with different activities including training sessions that we put in place to help support young people between the ages of 5-19, with different abilities and who come from different cultures.

A charitable organisation that was founded in 2014, as a voice for the million or more youths who are currently unemployed in the UK, particularly Black and Minority Ethnic NEETs (Not in Employment, Education or Training). Our main objective is to help reduce BME youth unemployment, provide employment and training solutions for youth offenders and implement anti-gang initiatives in the community.

Government and independent statistical analysis of UK BME youth unemployment figures, has consistently shown a huge disparity in the employment rates of white and BME job seekers. This problem is particularly acute amongst black youths who are twice if not more likely, to be unemployed than their fellow white job seekers (1/2 unemployed). This trend in BME youth unemployment can no longer be ignored, economically or morally justified. If the youth are considered to be our 'future' what kind of future can they expect to have if this divisive trend is not reversed? The socio-economic implications are too horrendous to contemplate.

We are champions for children and families.

Achieving for Children (AfC) is a community interest company (a not-for-profit social enterprise) created in 2014 by the Royal Borough of Kingston and the London Borough of Richmond to provide their children's services. In 2017, the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead joined AfC as our third owner, and we now deliver social care, education and health services to children and young people across all three boroughs.

At AfC our mission is to provide children and their families with the support and services they need to live happy, healthy and successful lives.

We strive to achieve excellence in everything we do by putting children and young people first in the design, delivery and evaluation of every service we provide.

Our broad service offer is informed by leading practice and a strong evidence-base of what works best. It is guided by our daily work with children and young people and the organisations that work with us to help and support them.

As a social enterprise, we take a business approach to delivering our social aims. We have the independence and flexibility to tailor innovative solutions to the needs of children and their families, whilst maintaining our strong bond and deep commitment to society and public service.

We work closely with Kingston, Richmond and Windsor & Maidenhead councils to set priorities and ensure that children's services remain an integral part of the local public sector offer across all three boroughs.

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Action Tutoring unlocks the potential of children and young people who are facing disadvantage. We are tackling the attainment gap head-on by forging partnerships with schools nationwide. Our trained volunteer tutors are empowered to enable pupils to make meaningful academic progress, opening doors to future opportunities.
Action Tutoring began its life as a charity in London, in spring 2011. From a pilot programme with just two schools and some local volunteers, our work has expanded rapidly.

Action West London is an expanding West London charity, Limited Company, and social enterprise. Our mission is ‘Changing Lives through Employment, Education, and Enterprise’. Action West London aims to deliver its mission by working in partnership with statutory, voluntary, community and private sector agencies across West London. Our aim is to be a key strategic, service delivery and financially sustainable charity and social enterprise in West London. They have partnerships with other charities and organisations, local authorities and public and private sector bodies in the Boroughs of Ealing, Hounslow, Hammersmith and Fulham, Brent, Harrow, Hillingdon, and Barnet.

Key Objectives are to:

1. Help disadvantaged, unemployed young people and adults secure Employment.

2. Help disadvantaged young people and adults improve their Education and Training.

3. Help individuals set up in self-employment, social enterprise, and business.

Our story began in 2007. We started life as London Active Communities, and our aim was simple: to use sport as an alternative way of engaging and inspiring young people into positive activities.

From the very beginning we have worked in Southwark and Lambeth; but now, thanks to our rapid growth, we reach young people in all 32 boroughs. Our grassroots sports and arts sessions are particularly focused on Lewisham, Lambeth, Southwark, Brent and Tower Hamlets.

Partnership is critical to what we do. We’re proud to work with trusted local delivery organisations who have an excellent knowledge base in the areas we operate. Their local knowledge enables us to deliver training and development which is specifically targeted to meet local needs.

The Adab Trust was set up in 2007 to facilitate improved employment outcomes for students from challenging backgrounds. Since inception, the Trust has worked with six universities and supported over 7,000 undergraduates and recent graduates.

Our inaugural programme was the 'Leadership by Example Programme'. This involved high calibre graduates from ethnic minority backgrounds - particularly from modern universities – being put through a six stage employer-led training and selection programme. The selection programme was delivered by one of UK's leading executive search agencies - Odgers & Berndtson – alongside the market leader in psychometric testing - SHL group. Successful candidates were then marketed to employers and in our first year of operation, 45 candidates secured graduate level roles.

From delivering our inaugural programme, we discovered that the principal barrier to most graduates being able to secure their desired jobs; was that they often lacked the soft skills employers sought. To address this, we developed our current programme - the very successful 'Employers in Higher Education (EHE) Programme.

The Employers in Higher Education (EHE) Programme:

This programme aims to create a strong connection between education and employers. This is done by bringing employers onto campuses to deliver a range of creative and innovative training sessions to young people. There are five strands of the EHE programme:

• Masterclass Series

• Problem based Learning

• Guest Speaker Series

• Employability Workshops

• Mentoring

AIR Network have over a decade of experience specialising in engaging and supporting society's most vulnerable, excluded and at risk individuals. We work with people who are ex-offenders, face addiction, have mental health issues or who are homeless. We provide free support and a wide range of experiences and activities to promote recovery, reduction in reoffending and achievement of sustained positive destinations.

Many of our staff have faced the same issues that our clients have, it is this insight, experience and empathy which enables us to provide services which are realistic, reflective of client needs and relevant. We know that changing lives isn't just about tackling addiction or offending behaviour or getting a job, it's about building the skills, experiences, support networks, resilience and coping mechanisms to achieve and sustain these changes long term.

Arch is a free and confidential service for young people and adults who live or are registered with a GP in Hillingdon. Many people turn to drink or drugs as a way of dealing with negative feelings, such as depression, stress, trauma or anxiety. We work with people at any stage of their alcohol or drug difficulties to provide a single point of access to assessment and treatment, for problems. We recognise the importance of providing treatment for both the substance misuse problem, as well as any associated emotional / mental health issues. Our service includes:

- Assessment and individual personal recovery plans,

- Advice and information on reducing harm,

- Specialist psychosocial interventions,

- Specialist detoxification programmes to manage withdrawal symptoms and safely wean you off drugs and alcohol,

- One-to-one and group therapies aimed at getting to the core of the problem,

- Motivation and support from those that have previously had problems with alcohol or drugs,

- Group activities and social networks, including men and women’s groups, relapse prevention and life skills advice,

- Joint working with employment agencies, training providers and housing associations to help you get back on track,

- Evening and weekend social drop-in and activities with the opportunity to volunteer and build new social networks to help your recovery.

Since 2003 we have delivered over 10,000 hours of development programmes, involving thousands of diverse young talent, and many of the UK’s leading businesses. Our aim has always been to bridge the gap between ambitious socially and ethnically diverse talent and UK PLC, through delivering high-quality, high-impact experiences.

Although our initial intention was to ‘help’ young people from low-income communities, we quickly realised that the incredible talent we connected with had levels of drive, energy and skills that their more privileged peers, who had a monopoly on the best career opportunities, lacked. But, back then, UK PLC couldn’t quite grasp what we could see.

We have designed and delivered hundreds of unique programmes, experiences and partnerships that bring together brilliant diverse young talent and forward-looking businesses. And, in doing so, changed beliefs, attitudes and outcomes. We have genuine and deep expertise, born out of experience, in what it takes for companies to unlock the Diversity Dividend.

We intervene early to prevent young people from becoming victims or perpetrators of violent crime. We embed creative spaces in London's most isolated communities, co-designed with young people, that build on their strengths and create opportunity. These award winning spaces include a music studio and multiple nail bars, all open 48 weeks of the year. In these spaces our team of creative, highly skilled professionals provide skills training, mentoring and specialist support.

Our spaces have become highly effective reporting mechanisms, enabling young people to come forward about major problems they experience, and access the support they need - putting them in the lead in safe and trusted environments and connecting them with multi-agency support.

What makes our approach special is that we are fully rooted in communities and at the same connected with industry and specialist support. We work with participants long-term as their needs cannot be met through short-term, one-off interventions; we always co-produce our programmes and enable young people to shape the support they need. We build trusted relationships, resulting in participants' active engagement: they seek our support when they face significant risks and challenges.

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The Nature of the Problem – a lack of Synergy

At present, there is a problem with the lack of synergy in the public and voluntary sector to tackling violence, guns, gangs and other social problems. The majority of agencies tend to work independently of each other without sharing their intelligence and/or resources. This inevitably results in some re-duplication of efforts and an overlapping of efforts among neighbouring community projects. The lack of a coherent, strategic approach lessens the overall effectiveness of efforts to reduce crime and alleviate social problems. Ascension Trust firmly believes that some of these groups could be much stronger by working together- the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. By identifying the best practice and specialisms among charitable organizations that partner with Ascension Trust, vulnerable groups, people at risk and those in need of advice would be referred to the best outlets to help them.

A Holistic Approach to Serious Violence

The main contributory factors to crime have been shown to be: family breakdown; peer-group pressures, poor education, deprivation, alcoholism, mental health and domestic violence. Ascension Trust will partner with agencies that have specialisms in the three main areas of family and domestic violence; education and mentoring; gangs and peer-pressure. The agencies will work together with vulnerable families and individuals in a joined-up manner taking a holistic approach to the problem. This holistic approach to serious violence is the key to impacting the community in a positive way.

We are a not-for-profit organisation supported by the Department for Education. Our 360-degree support programme offers education professionals training, practical tools and a wealth of free resources to better support autistic children and young people aged 0 to 25.

We choose to deliver autism training due to an identified level of need. According to the latest SEND statistics from the Department for Education, which are based on the school census, there are over 160,000 autistic pupils in schools across England.

The AET Professional Development Programme, supported by the Department for Education, offers nationally delivered face-to-face or virtual training for professionals working with Autistic children and young people up to the age of 25. We deliver a range of different training and programs.

BANG Edutainment is a youth-powered, community leadership organisation based in the heart of Brent. Our Vision is a world in which all young people are valued and inspired to thrive and contribute positively to their communities.

During this challenging time, we will remain accessible and committed to ensuring that the safety concerns of children, young people and families living in Brent, are prioritised. We are extending our reach across the borough by working closely with partner organisations, sharing our experience and knowledge to support those most in need. Our services include Health & Wellbeing, Education & Training, Employment & Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement. We are currently offering an online therapeutic wellbeing service as a modified way of delivering our existing community therapy service.

Brook operates a number of sexual health and wellbeing services across the UK.

Brook is committed to supporting young people and the majority of services are for people under 25. However, in December 2019 we began running all-age sexual health services in parts of the country. We also provide outreach and education services for young people and training for professionals across the UK. You can also explore our clinical services, along with those provided by other organisations, on our Find A Service tool.

Growing up is a challenge for everyone, but for some it's more difficult than others. We offer practical and emotional support so that young people can enter adulthood with the confidence they need to achieve their full potential.

Young people leaving care

Leaving home is a challenge for everyone, but young people leaving care often do so without the support of a loving family. Find out how we help care leavers.

Homelessness

How we help children and their families who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Read more about homelessness and the work we do to help young people.

Employment, training and skills

In partnership with employers, schools, colleges and charities, we train and support over 3,000 young people every year through 20 specialist services. Read more.

LGBTQ young people

How we provide direct support to LGBTQ children and young people around their gender and sexual identities.

We provide training and job opportunities that ultimately lead to sustained employment in the property sector. We work with those who want to turn their lives around and support them to make a real difference. We don’t simply invest money in our employees, we also dedicate our time and support to provide training and opportunities that lead to sustained employment and careers. Our work starts with a person. It’s a disadvantaged person; it’s someone who may not have academic qualifications or experience, but needs an opportunity. The person may have a disability, or a criminal record or any other circumstance which provides a barrier to employment. Regardless of their circumstances, all our employees share the desire to make the most of their opportunity and commit to making a positive change. From the pre-employment programme, to bespoke training and on-site experience, Be Onsite works to prepare employees for a specific job role. We work with employers to ensure employees become fully skilled and are able to move into a sustainable career. As technology in the property industry advances, new skills are required. Be Onsite works with the supply chain and implements bespoke training to help fill the gaps in the workforce.

Beating Time enables people serving prison sentences to find, or create, work when they are released and we do that in a very innovative way…. Currently there are around 85,000 people in prison. Nearly 80,000 people are released annually. Re-offending rates are at an all time high. Encouraging entrepreneurship and facilitating self-employment is an important (and to date neglected) part of the solution to reducing reoffending. We provide integrated programmes in prison which enable people serving sentences to simultaneously develop themselves and a business plan. Our Programmes include 1-2-1 coaching, and business mentoring from KPMG. We organise regular events to showcase the talents and potential of the people we work with to prospective employers. Music and performance are integral to our programmes. Making music, with others, combats the mental illnesses that many prisoners suffer. It also creates optimism and self-belief. It is on this PLATFORM of mental resilience and confidence we help prisoners develop a realistic PLAN for their future. A plan that does not involve returning to jail.

Bede House is a local Southwark charity, with the flexibility to respond to our area's changing needs. Government statistics show that some of our neighbourhoods are among the 10% most deprived in Britain. We therefore strive to offer a wide range of support. Since 1938, we've been working to unlock new possibilities for young and old to live fuller lives. Our services are delivered through four programmes addressing specific needs.

Bede Learning Disabilities

All of our activities, training, volunteering and employment programmes aim to build the skills and confidence of those with a learning disability. Our friendly Centre offers a welcoming space for everyone to expand their horizons, as well as providing respite for carers. We believe that everyone can play their part in the community.

Bede Youth

Bede offers young people a special place outside home and school to find friendship and enjoy exciting activities. Our clubs, music studio and holiday adventures are a fun way to build confidence and realise potential, while our youth workers are ready to help when personal challenges arise.

Bede: Ending Domestic Abuse

Bede has 20 years of experience helping those suffering abuse in the home. The experts in our Starfish team offer one-to-one guidance, group programmes, counselling and access to legal assistance. A key feature of our services is that we are available to continue until a solution is achieved.

Bede in the Community

Bede brings Bermondsey and Rotherhithe people together to create new opportunities. Over 90 people are involved with Bede as volunteers, our halls are used by community groups and our teams lead many activities. Volunteers with a learning disability visit housebound neighbours to do small jobs and help one another.

“We work in partnership to help young people overcome barriers, improve their lives and build a fairer society.

Our strategy, which runs from 2018 through to 2021, focuses our work on building a society where every young person can thrive.

The strategy is the result of six months of research and consultation with our charity partners and the wider voluntary sector with other businesses and with our founder, Berkeley Group. Throughout this process we asked ourselves two questions. What does a truly world class twenty-first century corporate foundation look like? And how can we most effectively serve our communities in London, Birmingham and the South of England?

The result is an ambitious organisational plan, with a clear set of measurable commitments.”

This organisation matches adult volunteers with young people facing adversity, providing them with one-to-one mentoring relationships aimed at building resilience and improving outcomes in education, behavior, and personal well-being.

∙Big Brothers Big Sisters UK can provide your community organisation with:
∙Help to quickly provide support to children who need it most in your community
∙Setting up an established model of delivery that is proven to make an impact on children who need the most support
∙Facilitating a relationship with your local authority to start making referrals
∙A bespoke service agreement with all policies and procedures in place
∙Full training and a bespoke digital platform to support all areas of the programme
∙Ongoing support from Big Brothers Big Sisters UK Foundation, including the opportunity to network with other BBBS partnerships across the country
∙To contribute to evaluation leading to wider research and support best practice in the sector
∙The opportunity to offer your local community a world class mentoring programme that makes a lasting impact on a child's life

The Bike Project is a charity that refurbishes bikes and donates them to refugees in London. We sell the best second hand bikes to help fund the project. For refugee women, we run Pedal Power, a supportive and nurturing, female-only cycle training course.

Binning Knives Saves Lives are a community volunteer group run by the 'Knife Man' and local legend Courtney Barrett. Courtney and his gang of volunteers have taken over 1200 knives off our streets and are dedicated to making Londons streets a safer place for our communities.

In BKSL's debut borough in only six months knife crime in Waltham Forest was reduced by 34%, whilst it rose in every other London Borough.

BKSL have taken over 1200 knives off the streets and out of circulation and have enrolled many troubled youths and gang members into ongoing activities and courses which have transformed their lives.

BKSL have also educated and changed the mindsets of many thousands, and provided free sports for children of parents who are on benefits.

BKSL have also take many knives from gang members and helped to turn their lives around by enrolling them into meaningful activities and courses, and giving them ongoing care & support.

BKSL also provide a knife collection service to minimise the number of knives in people's homes, and have united other organisations, religious groups, businesses, and councillors, in the battle against knife crime.

The Trust has recently taken back the overall management of the Black Prince community hub, having moved on from its arrangements with leisure provider, GLL. It is now looking forward to an exciting new chapter through its commercial partnership with PowerLeague.

These commercial partners sit alongside bespoke community charity organisations such as Fight4Change, Street Games, Centrepoint, School of Hard Knocks, Vi-ability – Change Foundation, as well as the Ethelred Tenant Management Organisation (ETMO), who provide a direct link to the local community.

Since 2015 the Trust has developed its own social outcomes 'strands'. The Trust has designated 5 separate social outcome strands across which BPT and its partners at the Hub aim to deliver social impact. They are as follows:

• Participation
• Inclusion
• Health and Wellbeing
• Equality and Diversity
• Education, Training and Life Long Learning

Bounce Back is a training provider delivering programmes in a wide variety of construction industry skills including Painting and Decorating, Dry Lining, Scaffolding and Aerial Window Cleaning. Our focus is on getting people into paid employment in the construction industry. We are industry-led and train in the skills that we know are needed on site. By responding specifically to demand in this way we are well placed to give participants the best opportunities for employment and achieve our core objective of training and equipping ex-offenders with the skills and qualifications to move into the workplace. Our aim is to provide an end-to-end solution, transitioning learners in the Criminal Justice System into employment in the Construction Industry. In addition to qualifications we also deliver CSCS training in a number of prisons and in the community. CSCS cards are the “passport” into work and without the card people cannot go on site. By obtaining the card prior to release candidates can move straight into work on leaving prison. We seek to fill the skills gap in the construction industry and act as a “go-to” for the construction industry who know they can come to us to get much needed, enthusiastic employees.

Case Management support

We have a team of Case Managers who engage with participants while they are still in prison and support them on release for up to a year, or longer, as required.

Each case manager works with the individual to help them through their journey and into work. They also work with employers to facilitate the transition into work.

We deliver skills training in various locations:

In prisons

We currently deliver training in HMP’s Brixton, Isis, Wandsworth, Pentonville, Feltham and Leeds. We are always keen to reflect the needs of our construction partners in our training.

In the Community

We train in the community at our Head Office in Westminster in Painting and Decorating and Scaffolding and Window Cleaning as well as CSCS and a number of other skills. We also offer bespoke training courses for partners.

Breaking The Cycle offers support to individuals and families experiencing difficulties as well as offering training and intervention to organisations.

Breaking The Cycle Consultancy Limited are a team of dedicated experts with years of experience in training and supporting youth and adult based organisations to achieve improved outcomes.

We are able to provide these due to our broadly experienced staff bringing their knowledge gained from a background of work within areas such as the Justice System, Psychology, mental health and safeguarding.

The person is placed front and centre in order to deliver outcomes which result in the best possible outcome for each person and organisation.

Our ethical principles are the values that set the ground rules for all that we do at BTC. As we seek to achieve responsible success, we will be challenged to balance these principles against each other, always mindful of our promise to stakeholders that we will deliver a service that is in the best interest for those who seek to use our specialist expertise.

Working in partnership with Brentford FC, the Trust offers a portfolio of programmes in education, employability, sports participation, health and community engagement.

Each year, we engage with thousands of young people across west London. Our communities engagement projects aim to inspire and empower young people to achieve their life goals.

• We offer a range of extra-curricular clubs during breakfast, lunch and after-school. Our qualified coaches adapt the sessions to suit the needs of every child.

• The Joy of Moving project is a national school-based educational project for children aged between 9-10, developed in partnership with the English Football League.

• The Premier League's Primary Stars initiative, uses the appeal of the Premier League and professional football clubs to inspire children to learn, be active and develop life skills.

• Super Active Schools is a Hounslow based initiative that encourages primary school children, across the borough, to become more active during school time.

Delivered by Catch22 and The Children's Society and funded by The Clothworker's Foundation, Bright Light is a programme that supports care leavers into apprenticeships, or future training or education.

Brilliant Parents knows that most parents are brilliant, but we also know, as parents ourselves, that bringing up children is one of the most challenging and emotionally demanding jobs a parent will ever do. Sometimes it can feel that parenting has turned into a battle, rather than an adventure. Brilliant Parents runs Parenting Courses supporting families across London, working with parents to turn the experience back into something that is positive and rewarding.

For you, the parent, our courses make daily life a little less about conflict and more about fun, by introducing techniques we can help you break a negative cycle with an emotional toddler or a complex teen. Our Parenting groups are run through peer support, delivered with opportunities for you to reflect on your own. Using years of research completed by Parenting Experts, Triple P, Brilliant Parents will help you understand your child's complicated behaviours as well as your own and show you ways to communicate with your child.

We exist to build an equitable super highway into the Creative, Media, and Tech industries and improve the early years experience for people from under-represented communities.

We deliver diverse talent to fuel a company's competitive advantage as more diverse teams produce better returns. Different types of thinking mean new perspectives, fresh ideas and better results. We are an 'end to end' solution to the industry's diversity challenges.
We exist to build an equitable super highway into the Creative, Media, and Tech industries and improve the early years experience for people from under-represented communities.

We deliver diverse talent to fuel a company's competitive advantage as more diverse teams produce better returns. Different types of thinking mean new perspectives, fresh ideas and better results. We are an 'end to end' solution to the industry's diversity challenges.

Brixton Finishing School is a not for profit and relies on the generous support of brands, agencies and media owners to improve the outcomes for underrepresented talent. We can't thank those that fund our mission enough.

We offer support through our website, national helpline, live chat, group, zoom, telephone or one-to-one in person support. We want to make sure everyone grieving gets the help they need in a way that works for them.  We have a specially trained dedicated team of 4,000 bereavement volunteers.

Campaigning
Grieving people need a voice and that's why we're campaigning to make sure they're heard. We'll do whatever it takes to make changes, from campaigning for better business standards to improving bereavement laws – we're determined to change how grieving people are treated.

We want to live in a world where grief is understood and supported. We equip, educate and empower society to make sure all bereaved people are treated with compassion and respect.

A great resource and social prescribing to listing organisations  from the boroughs of Wandsworth, Richmond, Merton and Kingston as well as the surrounding boroughs and national organisations that serve and empower these communities.  

Although not exclusively devoted to young people there is much here to interest and help all age groups.

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Through our programmes we build networks with employers, educators, and volunteers across the UK to give young people the career support, experiences, and insights they need to kickstart their futures. Each programme is mapped to specific learning outcomes, enabling young people to develop the skills, confidence, and aspirations needed for future career success. As a social mobility charity, we support young people who potentially face the most barriers in education and employment, and whose talents often go overlooked and undiscovered. We measure the impact of our programmes using a set of outcomes designed in partnership with employers and educators, mapped to the level and intensity of each programme. Students assess their Skills for Career Success at key points, which they reflect upon with their mentors in monthly meeting

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Caring Heart Foundatio was established in June 2016, with a national scope of operation.  It was set up with the aim of caring for the health and well-being of the community. Our Mission is to provide practical support services and empower families and individuals helping them to achieve social integration, good health & well-being through Community Health Promotion Training. Promoting Safeguarding Practice, Community Education, Poverty Alleviation, Counselling and Emotional Support Services.

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Our vision is a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live. In 2017/18 we supported 64,741 people through our 123 services all over the UK.  Our 1,689 colleagues were supported in their vital work by 122 volunteers.  We’ve been a charity for 200 years. Today we work across children’s social care, deliver alternative education, get people into work through apprenticeships and employability programmes, build stronger communities through social action, and deliver social justice and rehabilitation services (in prisons and in the community). But we don’t just stop at changing lives on the frontline. We take any surplus and the learning from our delivery, and funnel that into public service reform – investing in new structures and programmes that do things differently and change the system for good. Catch22 changes lives by delivering frontline public services. We then take our experience and the surplus made from delivery, and reinvest it in piloting new ways of doing things. We deliver services for young people, families and adults, across justice, social action, education and into employment. Our strong frontline delivery expertise not only changes lives but, gives us direct insight into how the system is working and what needs to change. In 2021 Community Links merged with Catch22.

We invest in new ideas that will improve outcomes for our service users. We deliver reform through our existing services, in partnership with others and by building new organisations. Catch22’s Review of the Year 2019 is a statement of our social impact and a snapshot of what we’ve achieved.

It demonstrates the impact Catch22 is having on people’s lives up and down the country.

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Chance UK is a London-based charity delivering services across the UK. We have over 25 years' experience working with children who have faced trauma in their childhood.

We use evidence-based interventions to respond to each child's individual needs. Through one-to-one mentoring, group sessions and school workshops, our team of experts support children to develop the skills they need to build a brighter future. We offer the child's family specialist support to build their knowledge, skills and personal resilience. Where needed, we also work with the child's school and any other support service involved. Find out more about our approach by clicking on our website.

Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) empowers communities and changes lives by improving health, education and employment and reducing crime.

Our mission is to improve individual lives and contribute to safer communities, by providing employment opportunities for people with convictions to enable them to reach their full potential. We work in direct partnership with prisons around the country – public and private. Our offer is simple and effective. We can support ex-offenders into work anywhere in the country, via our national Employers Directory. Our partner prisons can offer work-ready residents the opportunity to become Clean Sheet Members, by completing our Membership Module. We give our partner prisons monthly statistical feedback on their former residents’ progress, as we share a common aim; to break the destructive and expensive cycle of reoffending. Our partners in the community already support people with convictions in other aspects of their life, such as housing. Once their clients are work-ready, they are referred to us to become Clean Sheet Members.

Shared Purpose is a free, online space for anyone working for positive change.We'll make a pact with you, to unleash your social purpose. To connect you with likeminded people. To guide you to grow. To inspire new ideas. We will connect you with likeminded people, guide you to grow and inspire new ideas.

Take part in peer learning and support, movements of change and self-development programmes. Reduced inequalities. Sustainable communities. Peace and social justice. Together we can create change. Join us.

We help close skills gaps by connecting underrepresented talent to skills-based job postings. Most people have a bad experience with recruitment. And we were no different.

Like most people, we experienced barriers to entry and exclusion in the job market. That's why we created a new hiring process that gives everyone a greater opportunity to demonstrate their talent and get interviews in an equitable and accessible environment. Our diverse team of technologists, recruiters and psychologists are developing the Clu Inclusive Recruitment Platform™ that will see organisations change the way they look at and value talent.

Everyone deserves to feel valued, included and set up for success in the hiring process. And we won't stop until we achieve that reality.

A first-of-its-kind programme in Europe, delivering computer programming and coding training in UK prisons. At Code4000, we believe that anyone can learn to code, and we support our students through a transformative journey that not only builds their coding skills but has a notable effect on confidence, self-esteem, and wellbeing.

Computer programming is a skill much sought after by employers in the UK where there is a shortage of software development professionals. By teaching coding to people in prison, we are maximising their opportunity for gaining employment upon release which in turn is a large factor in preventing re-offending.

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CodeAtt is a renegade 'London First' Project. Our city has specific and far reaching issues around social inclusion, poverty and crime whilst simultaneously being the global leader in banking and technology innovation. CodeAtt exists to bring these realities together by identifying undiscovered potential in our communities, refining and fast tracking that potential into well paid careers in London's banking and technology sectors. We are real people creating real opportunity for real change, and at the heart of what we do is our belief in Achievement Through Tech.  Partnered with New Futures Network.

We believe in a future where everyone has a real opportunity to lead a thriving life.

CodeYourFuture (CYF) is a UK based non-profit organisation that trains some of the most deprived members of society to become web developers and helps them to find work in the tech industry.

CYF students are trained in full-stack web development by volunteers from the tech industry, putting a strong emphasis on collaboration and product development through tech projects.

CYF graduates work in companies like FT, BBC, STV, Ticketmaster and startups like Adzuna, Sensible Object, tlr and WeGotPop.

Compassionate Mental Health is working with a network of people across the UK and internationally to transform mental health services, and radically change the conversation around mental illness.

OUR VISION is of a world where more people recover after a serious mental health crisis, and people have access to a range of compassionate services to help develop positive mental health and wellbeing.                        

OUR MISSION is to be a beacon for those going through tough times, and to work with a network of people and places across the UK and internationally to transform mental health services, and radically change the way we talk about and treat mental illness.

OUR APPROACH is to work with a range of partners across the UK and globally to call for a more integrative approach to mental health – one that relies less on diagnosis and psychiatric drugs, and more on empowering the person, communities and social networks. Our activities are shaped by a belief that recovery after a mental health crisis is possible, and that good mental wellbeing can be achieved by strengthening and empowering communities, activating social networks, and providing access to inspiring opportunities and education.

Our mission is to engage and inform children and young people to provide them with choices supporting their individual learning and personal development.

We provide a safe, caring, youth-led space for disadvantaged young people where they can learn, develop and build towards a brighter future. Having started out 20 years ago as a grassroots local effort to tackle problems faced and expressed by local children and young people, we have developed into an established local charity with a strong track record, supported by a number of long-term funders. Most of our beneficiaries come from the Caledonian and Barnsbury ward. This area contains six pockets of poverty (Super Output Areas) which are amongst the 20% most deprived areas nationally and are sandwiched between the new Kings Cross Central Development and the leafy roads of Barnsbury. We are currently working with approximately 170 young people.

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This campaign is more than just a call for change. It's also a salute to many incredible organisations and heroes working to tackle the root causes of crime. Through the ongoing work of the Don't Stop Your Future organisation, I'll be working alongside anti-knife crime charities and amplifying the voices of marginalised communities.

To the political leaders reading this, this can be the moment we turn the tide. The year the numbers reversed course. It's not too late to end this nightmare for our kids – and make fuel for their dreams instead.

The community is waiting to act with you. We all are.

IDRIS ELBA

Our objective is to greatly increase the number of people in prison studying Further and Higher Education.

DWRM works with universities to offer a much wider range of degree courses than are currently available to students in prison. We focus on the provision of study materials, tuition and greater participation in a learning community so as to properly engage students.

As there is currently very limited support for prisoners on release, this tends to mean students are unable to complete their course or sit the required exams. Such students become disillusioned and often lost in terms of continuing with their education. We intend to bridge that gap by providing post release support to enable students to attend university campus to complete their degree.

Although our initial focus is on Higher Education, we plan to adopt a flexible provision which will incorporate Further Education and Apprenticeships. This option to "earn while you learn" is highly suited to people leaving prison and we are keen to promote this progressive opportunity, with the support of appropriate partners.

Doing What Really Matters' (DWRM) objective is to greatly increase the number of people in prison studying Further and Higher Education. DWRM works with universities to offer a much wider range of degree courses than are currently available to students in prison. We focus on the provision of study materials, tuition and greater participation in a learning community so as to properly engage students. Our key target audience is people in prison who are disadvantaged by a lack of Higher Education (HE) provision from UK universities. Our focus is on rehabilitation in its purest form; prioritising the voice of people in prison who are disadvantaged by socio-economic features, negative educational experiences and disillusion. One of the goals of our target group is to secure gainful employment on release from prison, which will enable them to successfully settle back into society, with a greater sense of confidence and self-esteem. We seek to address this by taking people from an unqualified position to achieving a respected qualification that will create new career opportunities and contribute to lower re-offending rates.

At Empowering You we deliver blended learning and development journeys. Based on your business objectives, we will co-design a programme to bring about the desired outcome for you, your team or organisation. Previous participants and clients have highlighted the key differentiators of our programmes as being:

the integration of 1-1 coaching to embed learning; through action and accountability
the highly experiential nature of our workshops
the support and shared experience of a cohort of fellow professionals and leaders
the effective use of co-facilitators to bring different perspectives, styles and focus to the learning
the involvement of senior leader speakers and experienced mentors

We offer regional and national open programmes that offer participants the opportunity to network, share experience and learn from each other in a safe and facilitated group setting. These are open to participants from any organisation.

East London Business Alliance builds the connection between businesses and local communities, bringing the time, skills and resources of the private sector, to help build the capacity of local organisations, support young people in education and place people into employment in London. ELBA makes community investment easier, more effective and more rewarding, whether through face to face activity or on-line.

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) is dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement. The EEF isn’t just a grant-funder, nor just a research organisation. What we are is a charity with a moral imperative – to support teachers and senior leaders to raise attainment and close the disadvantage gap – which roots its response to this educational challenge in the best available evidence.

We aim to:

• raise the attainment of 3-18 year-olds, particularly those facing disadvantage;

• develop their essential life skills; and                                              

• prepare young people for the world of work and further study.

We do this by:

• summarising the best available evidence in plain language for busy, time-poor teachers and senior leaders. Our Teaching and Learning Toolkit is now used by 70% of secondary schools.

• generating new evidence of ‘what works’ to improve teaching and learning, funding independent evaluations of high-potential projects. We’ve tested over 190 high-potential programmes with over 1.3 million children and young people and our most promising programmes have enabled students to make +3 months of additional progress in a year.

• supporting teachers and senior leaders across the country in using this evidence to achieve the maximum possible benefit for young people. We work in partnership with a network of 37 Research Schools across the country.

Elevate 2 Success‍

To educate Elevated Minds with ideas that will benefit youths, to contribute to media and design.

Being able to impact change in the community. Helping improve the world by creating positive activities for youths.

Gaining vital information from a first-hand source which will improve, communication, concentration, behaviour, confidence and belief of success for all youths involved. Giving students the chance to recreate not only their futures but all youths in the community. Teachers can always learn new skills, it makes sense to learn from the people we are passionate about trying to understand and help. Working as a collective, we are bound for success.

The work of Elevate 2 Success is to give advice and ideas to the Elevated Minds (EM) team by sharing thoughts regarding the development of future projects whilst enhancing and developing your skills. This will be done by advertising the work of Elevated Minds CIC through Social Media design, hence, devised by youths, for youths. You will be given an opportunity to contribute to an Elevated Minds project design and the content of future programmes, written specifically for young people. E2S will be led by the Trainee Coach and supported by our Apprentice Mentor.

Education Employment Training Group offers one of the best UK's services when it comes to training and employment. We work with a number of organisations who require work experience opportunities for their learners. As well as giving advice to employers who would like a greater understanding on how apprenticeships work. Also, there are many other sectors that we are involved in, for example: - Mentoring - Work Experience - School Work.  It should also be mentioned that all training is fully funded if you're not in education, employment or training. We have a wide range of courses available, take a look at our website for some more information about what we can offer for you.

Entrepreneurs Unlocked recognises that people with criminal histories can develop their talents and gifts to enable them to flourish and become a positive contributor to society. With almost 2 in 3 adults with custodial sentences of less than one year re-offending within 12 months of release and the total cost of re-offending in excess of £15billion per annum, ways to reduce its impact on the individual and society is of value and benefit to all. Its mission is to engage with individuals in custody and the community and provide a range of programmes to nurture and develop their talent to enable them to live a crime-free future as an individual, employee or self-employed person.

FbRN’s vision is of faith communities working with others to address the needs of people living in areas of social and economic deprivation.

FbRN is a national independent multi-faith practitioner-led network supporting faith based social action. Networking: events, information, publications, resources. Building capability: training, consultancy, quality, standards, religious and cultural literacy. Research: building and disseminating an evidence base for good practice. Advocacy: engaging with policy leaders, creating the policy agenda, enabling grassroots voices to be heard. Programme development: pilot programmes, facilitation of innovation, joint contracting.

Sector leadership: co-ordination on key issues – refugees, peace-building, poverty, environment, well-being.

Objectives are:

• To advance the understanding of nine major faiths and change attitudes by providing more information and facilitate discussion.                                                            

• To promote good relations by creating networks and project delivery between different faith communities and wider society.

• To help faith groups contribute to social policy areas through being a centre for research, debate and engagement.

• To advance leadership, capacity and resilience in faith communities through training and resources.

• To tackle hate and extremism through proactive and reactive means.

An online resource to tackle Gang culture and County Lines

The site also provides direct assistance. If you’re involved in something that you don’t want to be or know a friend who is, please contact Fearless and talk to someone. Fearless is completely anonymous and nobody will know you have spoken.

If you think someone you know is in immediate danger, call the police on 999.

This site also provides links to online training. The training is suitable for anyone working with young people. In the past we have trained Safer Schools Officers, teachers, sports coaches, school nurses, Safer Neighbourhood Teams, youth workers and YOT workers.

Fine Cell Work is a charity and social enterprise committed to the rehabilitation of prisoners through providing them with purposeful activity. We do this by teaching them soft work skills, by training and paying them to do exquisite needlework to create beautiful products for sale.

We are committed to the rehabilitation of prisoners and prison leavers, and to breaking the devastating cycle of reoffending and repeated imprisonment.
Our aim is to support prisoners and prison leavers to finish their sentences with work skills, money earned and saved, and the self-belief to rebuild meaningful, independent, crime-free lives.

We invite you to learn about the fantastic work we have started in the city to tackle youth violence and build mental health resilience.

We are proud to help to connect young people aged 13-25 to their purpose by introducing them to new opportunities.

We are passionate about challenging the over representation and under representation of BAME young people in key sectors including, mental health, criminal justice and education.

We do this through our pillars which are:

Family
Criminal Justice
Politics
Education
Business and Enterprise
Health

Each Pillar represents the areas where First Class Foundation will have influence and opportunities for the target group i.e. training and support in business and enterprise.

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Forward empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of addiction or crime to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive futures. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make changes to create better lives with jobs, family, friends and a sense of community. We incorporate two social enterprises under our umbrella.

Through BLUE SKY SERVICES we are providing a high quality and affordable Grounds Maintenance Service and directly employ those with histories of offending and substance misuse. Our achievements are widely regarded as bringing significant demonstrable social impact in communities through the simple concept of breaking barriers and getting people back into employment.  

With a growing coverage, we have significant relationships with several major companies and local authorities.

Some key facts about Blue Sky Services:

• Re-offending costs the taxpayer £13bn annually.

• We help over 200 ex-offenders every year.

• 43% of our leavers secure onward employment – over half with their commercial clients.

• We hold one of the highest scores for reducing reoffending (Ministry of Justice Data Lab).

In order to continue our great work and increase the employment and training opportunities we offer, I am reaching out to those who may be able to help with us gaining new business to help our Enterprise grow.

The Vine Community's Mission is to build opportunities in underserved communities that help tomorrow's leaders shape the future. By connecting today's leaders with mission-led organisations, we are transforming our society by making innovation open to anyone, anywhere.

Founded by James Kaguima, The Vine Community brings together a network of changemakers ready to lead and transform our society by making innovation open to anyone, anywhere.

• Get access to experts and resources

• Exclusive events, funding & job opportunities

• Connections to expand your  networks

An ever-changing menu of events can be found here.  Keep up to date by clicking on the link.

We deliver sixty FREE Schools Workshops across the UK each year, working with over 1,000 young people. Our workshops take our industry-leading training to the door step of Schools.

We deliver twelve FREE Taster Workshops each year, providing in excess of 300 people with the opportunity to experience what Actor Training at Fourth Monkey is all about from our London base.

A commitment to deliver five FREE regional auditions across the UK in collaboration with theatre venues and colleges, delivering on our commitment to make auditioning for actor training genuinely accessible to all.

Future First's purpose is clear and simple: a world where a young person's start in life does not limit their future. We want to see every state school and college in the UK, and every state school pupil, supported by a thriving and engaged alumni community, which improves students' motivation, confidence and life chances.

We are the UK education charity helping young people in state schools and colleges broaden their horizons by connecting them with former pupils. For too many young people, their start in life is limiting their future. They do not have access to relatable role models to help them understand what they can achieve, nor the networks, knowledge and tools to help them to get there.

We provides schools and colleges with the technology, tools and support needed to mobilise their past pupil networks.

Through a front-line delivery of practice-led services, we work with boys and men to help them become dynamic and healthy future men. From structured school programmes and youth hubs to individual one-to-one sessions and outreach work, we provide the vital support and advocacy that changes boys and  men's lives for the better.
Our schools work supports boys as they go through key transitions in their lives, inspiring them to make positive choices for their futures.
Our work in communities offers support to boys and young men through outreach and intervention, as well as youth hubs that offer a space for young people's personal and social development.
We advocate for boys and men through influencing policy and practice, whilst addressing the stereotypes around masculinity and engaging in the wider conversation of what it means to be a man.

Delivered by Catch22, Future Pathways is an employability programme for young Londoners that supports them into sustained work, apprenticeships or education.

Young Londoners who take part in the Future Pathways programme will receive:

- Dedicated employment advisor for 12 months

- Tailored journey designed to overcome personal barriers

- Confidence and motivation building sessions

- CVs and cover letter preparation

- Job search and application coaching

- Funding to upskill

- Interview prep / mock interviews

- Interview clothing to keep

- Better off calculations

- Hidden job market top tips

- Financial support for first month in work

- WorkStar created and updated to monitor soft skills

- In-work support for the first 6 months

Visit our website for more information on participant criteria.

We're a Charitable Social Enterprise owned by our staff and founded on our purpose and values to provide a different, fairer and better way of doing business. Our purpose is to improve the physical, mental and social wellbeing of local communities.

As the UK's leading provider of both Leisure Centres and Libraries we operate over 400 locations all helping to make a real difference to local communities and local people.

Every penny that GLL makes is reinvested back into the business to support our social purpose.

In 1993, Greenwich Council needed to find a new way to run its leisure centres because of public spending cuts and together, we came up with a new model. The first of its kind in UK leisure. GLL was born.

Seven centres were transferred to us, and success quickly followed. We created jobs and added new services to existing leisure centres. Since then, we've built lots of new facilities in the UK and our membership has gone from about 7,000 to more than 850,000 with 58 million visitors a year.

In 1996, we began expanding outside Greenwich and now run all kinds of community services and spaces across the UK - from Belfast to Bromley, Carlisle to Cardiff.

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We exist to make community services and spaces better for everyone. That means providing affordable access to quality community leisure and fitness facilities. We manage more than 270 public sport and leisure centres, 113 libraries in partnership with 50 local councils, public agencies and sporting organisations.

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GLL is now almost 29 years old and we're as excited about the future today, as we were back in 1993.

At GLL we don't just run Leisure Centres, Swimming Pools or Lido's or Gyms, we provide for the whole community running Libraries, Theatre's, Children's Centres, Playgrounds, Nurseries and so much more. All of which we run in our charitable, community focused way.

We believe our values and purpose have never been more relevant and hope we can continue to make a difference in as many communities as possible across the UK.

We are providing professionals with training to understand and be more aware of gang culture and associated behaviours.

At Catch22 we understand the challenges faced by gang-involved young people and their families. Our work targets and builds on service users' strengths to prevent individuals becoming involved in gangs and help support those involved to safely exit.

Our extensive experience has afforded us with the expertise to support and develop professionals to effectively engage this cohort, maximising outcomes achieved. Using this experience, we have developed a full-day training session for professionals.

Our full-day training session is 6 hours and can be delivered online or face-to-face.

Our full-day training session for professionals covers for example gang culture, serious youth violence and associated behaviours,
gang activity within the community, how to recognise key warning signs, and much more.

Founded by Sheldon Thomas, Gangsline is a non-profit organisation established in 2007 to provide help and support to young men and women involved in gang culture.  We work with individuals from the deprived parts of our communities and with deeply entrenched social, educational, spiritual and family issues.  Central to our ethos and success is a proactive, spiritual and non-enforcement led approach to gangs, and the gang violence embedded in our local communities.

Gangsline’s beginning came as a result of receiving a small funding grant to support individuals and families who were fearful about the involvement of people they knew in gangs. Since then Gangsline has expanded from an information and advice service to a highly successful and respected outreach and mentoring service, under the name Targeted Against Gangs (TAG).

Today Gangsline delivers its unique services by providing a proactive and reactive approach that offers support and exit strategies to young men and women involved in gangs, and an effective prevention service to young people on the peripheries of gang activity. Our specialist outreach response team – all of whom are ex-gang members themselves – are uniquely placed to access and work alongside even the most high risk gang leaders and members.

Since its inception Gangsline has effectively addressed the root causes of why young people turn to the ‘comfort’ that gang membership provides. These reasons may be incomprehensible to mainstream society, but issues such as family breakdown, anger, the consequences of societal rejection, emotional hurt, unresolved conflict, a (missing) sense of belonging, the dangers of the disillusioned and the despair of struggling parents and absent fathers have all had a massive contribution to the choices made by many of our socially excluded young people. In response to the presented issues, Gangsline has a no holds barred approach that focuses on notions of responsibility, morality, positive thinking, anger management, self- belief, leadership, success and purpose.

We identify young people who have the motivation to launch their career, and dedicated mentors work with them to ensure they complete the programme successfully

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66% of graduates remain employed one year after placement
84% of our employers say that Generation graduates perform better than average

Many employers struggle to find entry-level staff with the right technical skills and personal attributes needed to perform in the role. Generation sources, trains, and energises new recruits who can create value for your business from their first day on the job. Generation also works with employers to customise programs based on your specific needs.

Our vision is a world where local communities can easily share their skills, expertise and time with each other - without intermediaries, silos or middle men. Among our many project we  

• Have created a community service in Southwark which supported 447 unemployed local residents into jobs in the Shard

• Are collaborating with business networks to build a hyper-local labour market for the South Bank

We use tech to connect people (and their skills, abilities and interests), with opportunities around them.

Our matching tech can be used to connect volunteers with opportunities to support their community, build flexible labour markets to connect people with good part-time work, or digitally enable the service delivery of charities or local authorities.

We work with a variety of public and private partners - from NHS Trusts, Local Authorities and foundations, to corporates and business networks.

But what underpins all of our work is a desire to enable everyone to thrive, by better connecting people with good opportunities.

We believe in empowering individuals and communities to be a force for good. But what unites all of our work is a belief in the transformative power of community - and the opportunity to connect government, employers and individuals to build it.

Good People has many corporate partners listed on the website.

Recruiting young people aged 16-30 from Catch22's networks, we support them in gaining an insight into the world of work and the energy industry. This is part of the wider Grid for Good programme, which includes:

- Events to inform young people about National Grid and the wider energy industry

- Peer networking and industry taster sessions

- Work readiness training

- 12-week career mentoring programme

- 2 weeks work experience

- Access to job opportunities – including apprenticeships and internships – within the energy industry

- Strong alumni support network for people who have been through the programme.

Grow Transform Belong is a Community Interest Company that strives to serve the community by providing services that empower people and organizations, to grow and connect. The vision of GTB CIC is to create an inclusive and safe community, uniting with like-minded people, to make a collective impact.

Grow Transform Belong CIC was established by Dr Lewis in 2022.  This CIC developed from the ideas that underpin Norwegian thinking, within a prison context and inform all our work.  We work in partnership with Penal Reform Solutions, who developed this Growth philosophy and integrate these principles in all our services.

Growing Against Violence (GAV) is a charity that aims to protect young people against peer-to-peer violence and exploitation both on the streets and online. The charity grew out of a partnership with London's Metropolitan Police Service and since 2008 GAV has delivered workshops to over 197,000 young people in over 940 schools.

GAV sees violence as a disease that is preventable rather than inevitable and examines the causes of violence using a listening and investigative approach that teases out issues specific to local communities. The charity follows the World Health Organisation's 'public health approach to tackling violence', using data to identify risk factors for violence and the delivery of evidence-based violence prevention workshops.

The Board and Senior Management have personal and professional expertise in violence prevention. This unique partnership brings together senior professionals from health, law, policing, academia, accounting, IT and the private sector to provide effective governance and enable the charity to thrive and expand.

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What was once a dream and just two people is now a thriving service with a broad specialist and experienced staff team with passion, commitment and expertise at our heart.

We have earned positions on many groups of influence and currently hold an elected position to the NICE committee on self-harm and The National Suicide Prevention Advisory Group to Government.

Working closely with academics and policy makers we believe that we have a responsibility to drive policy changes and service delivery across the UK in order to bring about a safer future for the people that we help and to represent their voice.

Harmless is a user led organisation that provides a range of services about self harm and suicide prevention including support, information, training and consultancy to people who self harm, their friends and families and professionals and those at risk of suicide

Since 1883, the Harrow Club has been anchored in the local community working with some of the most marginalised young people in West London to provide accessible and high-quality opportunities, enabling them to maximise their life chances and to enhance their personal development. We are not afraid to work at the most challenging fringes of our community in order to make the greatest impact.

Through creative, cutting-edge projects delivered by an experienced, committed team, we provide learning opportunities, routes to employment and critically increased resilience and well-being for young people aged 8 to 21.

ANTI KNIFE CRIME

Hearts of Talent is changing the narrative for young people from London's diverse communities by encouraging them to unlock their potential with a performing arts competition like no other - designed to guide young people away from knife crime and unlock their potential.

Hearts of Talent was founded by local mum and businesswoman Jasmine Dale and her daughter Amoy Dale to move young people away from extreme violence and gang culture by using the creative arts to nurture self-expression, boost confidence and establish a sense of hope for the future.  With strong partnerships with The FA (Football Association), Slenky and Project Zero and support from NHS North West and the Metropolitan Police #TOGETHER initiative. Hearts of Talent provides a platform for young people to create opportunities to develop talents and forge careers.

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For a better Hillingdon
A new idea in community services, Hillingdon Vision was formed in 2019 by enthusiastic local people with a love for helping others, who decided to create an organisation solely focused on making Hillingdon a better place for all.Hillingdon Vision aims to improve Hillingdon through its; media work, community projects, events and charitable services.
Open to people of all backgrounds our volunteer program allows those working with us to attend and take part in a wide variety of activities.
Our organisation has expanded and we need you! Why not chat with us about volunteering?

The 'Hope Collective' is a partnership cohort of organisations who share a passion to provide our young people with ambition, opportunity, something to aspire to... a hope for a better and brighter future. We aim to engage with young people the length and breadth of the United Kingdom and provide them with a voice and a platform to assist them to realise their dreams and their goals. A UK wide societal public health approach to safeguarding and nurturing young people. Sadly, we see plenty of evidence of what happens when young people are not given these opportunities, when the concrete and steel of inner cities and a daily struggle to survive is what they face... a life bereft of hope.

As a society, we tend to focus on the negative image of our next generation, whereas, in reality, our young people are worth so much more. We believe that, if they are given a platform and the correct level of support, they can set an agenda that transforms lives and the world in which they live. The Hope Collective believes that the levelling up discussion taking place within the adult establishment, needs to have young people front and centre of the discussion. The more we see equal opportunity for all young people, the fairer society we will become.

We started in 2021 with that agenda, to 'change the conversation', to be more positive about young people's ability to effect change and to listen to what they think and what they say. Report after report into the problems impacting young people highlighted the fact that poverty and inequality was the problem. Symptoms such as knife crime manifested, showing how important it was to reframe the narrative. The narrative had just stayed the same! Working with the newly established network of Violence Reduction Units (VRU's) across the UK, we engaged with our numerous partner organisations – the National Citizen Service, UK Youth, Youthlink Scotland, the Coop, Rio Ferdinand Foundation, Onside Youth Zones, Tigers, 2020 Change, Spirit of London Awards Foundation, Professional Footballers Association (PFA), NHS, YMCA Wales, Oasis Youth and many more – to put together a pilot series of Hope Hack events at which young people could attend and discuss the issues impacted by poverty and inequality.

These took place in London, Greater Manchester, Belfast, Glasgow and Cardiff and our young people responded in numbers to provide their views on issues such as: POVERTY AND INEQUALITY/MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH /RACISM AND DIVISION /THE ENVIRONMENT AND HOUSING/EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION

We exist to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives, and reforming society.            

Prevent

Our outreach teams, self-help groups and community education initiatives empower people to protect themselves and their families from predatory traffickers and their recruiters.            

Rescue

Our specialist teams work closely with police to identify victims of modern slavery, build bridges of trust with them and remove them from exploitation and into safety.    

Restore

We work with victims to overcome trauma and rebuild their lives. We offer tailored restorative care initiatives and offer support to meet vital needs, including survivor-centred aftercare.

Reform

We train professionals to spot the signs of trafficking and to respond, and campaign for policy change. We help businesses protect their operations and supply chains from modern slavery.

Hope in Haringey – rooted in Tottenham enriches the lives of young people between the ages of 4 and 24 across Haringey through its four core programmes of Counselling, Mentoring, Youth and Police Engagement.

We work to improve Haringey's community resilience and improve its cohesion despite being one of Britain's most volatile urban areas.

Our staff are local residents who are experienced in their relative fields and use their extensive social capital to strengthen our volunteer base. This allows Hope in Haringey to deliver high-impact projects and services whilst also representing excellent value, making us the perfect social investment opportunity.

Working with the support of partners such as JPMorgan Chase, Catch22 is advancing its vision to address the UK employment crisis and empower those furthest from the job market to take a positive first step.

It is one of the first programmes to address both unemployment and underemployment; where work is either low paid, unstable or without opportunities to progress.

Receive a one-to-one career advisor, pre-employability support, inspiration sessions from those in professional careers, technical training options, and in-work support for up to 6 months.

Horizons will also provide access to laptops and connectivity support for young people where digital exclusion presents a barrier. Contact us now to start your journey!

Hyde Housing takes a holistic approach to support vulnerable people. The target age range is 18 years and over.

Hyde Housing offers:

• Regular Drug & Alcohol support

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

• Counselling

• Crisis Intervention & Prevention initiatives

• Going For Gold program

• Sexual Health Advice

• Offending behaviour

• Independent Living skills

• Money management

• Advocacy

• Anger Management

• Benefit Advice

• Education and Training

• Legal Advice

• Work Experience Opportunities

Think-Tank. Interests include access to a decent job, with fair pay, security and the ability to make provision for old age is the backbone of a productive and fair economy.

IPPR has launched the London Progression Collaboration to boost apprenticeships in the capital.

"We develop a growth mindset in young people to help them overcome barriers and take their first steps towards an Iconic career."

We are a social enterprise supporting young people from diverse backgrounds, aged 16-25, who need that extra bit of help; to? acquire much needed skills, experience and resilience to increase their opportunities to enter the media industry. Commercially we work on commissioned projects with our young people, to produce compelling video and photo content for clients.

Include PPP provides full-time, alternative, secondary education for young people aged between 13 and 18 years old with additional to complex needs in West London.Catch22 Include PPP is an Ofsted registered independent school, which caters for pupils who have a range of social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs, as well as those who have been, or are at risk of becoming, excluded.

Include PPP takes a young person-centred, holistic approach to education, moving away from mainstream methods with which learners have had difficulties in the past.

The focus is on unblocking the various barriers to learning with which each young person struggles, releasing their potential.

Inside Connections Support CIC aim to empower marginalised individuals through Education, Training, Employment and Housing for a range of individuals who have been marginalised by homelessness or affected by leaving prison, the care system or the military.

Training

We provide training for people aged 16 and above covering a wide range of disciplines, from functional skills to vocational qualifications.

Employment

With newly acquired qualifications, or previously attained knowledge and skills, Inside Connections are here to assist you in to your next career opportunity.

Support

We provide many layers of bespoke support services; for care experienced young people, homeless, individuals with convictions, ex-service personnel and many more.

IC Mobile

The Mobile Network Supporting Service Users

Perfect for individuals in or exiting custody, care or the armed forces, those in support groups and vulnerable individuals. “It’s time we had a specialised smart phone service to help our people. That’s why we’ve designed a mobile phone range aimed specifically for prisoners and their families at an affordable cost: £24.99 which includes:

• the phone device

• a £10 bundle

• 4 free numbers should user run out of credit

These 4 free emergency numbers could include Probation, Support worker, Key Workers, Carers or family member.  As a returning citizen myself I know how vital this mobile service would be to prisons, probations, young people’s care homes, Veterans, homeless etc. to keep them in contact while on licence or isolated - especially with the difficulties they’ll face when released into a Covid-19 world. And as we run the network, we can even identify the subscriber with their name such as HMP Prison name.

Software features which work only with this mobile service: https://icmobile.co.uk/monqi  

• Live Location Tracking & Geo-fence Alert

• 4 Free Call numbers for emergency use when credit is used

• Pre Block Numbers, Approve contacts & View Call log

• App Control, Remove all Social Media Sites from our Devices at any time

• Free Family Chat and Talk  “It’s time we had a specialised smart phone service to help our people.                                                                                                                

• Anti Cyber Bulling Alerts

• Selection of top-up bundles

We work with many prisons especially Category D establishments and with those on ROTL. Up to 3 weeks ago, 120 completed our 2-3 week courses; 88% are now in full-time employment with 45% of the work force still serving prisoners with up to 18 months left of their sentence.

Inspire!, the Education Business Partnership, is an independent charity that links businesses and their employees with schools and colleges to inspire, support and open doors for young people from Hackney, Camden and neighbouring boroughs. By bringing a diverse range of employee volunteers into the learning environment, we provide young people with employability skills, prepare them for the world of work and give them access to a world of choices and opportunities that may otherwise have remained out of reach. Inspire! works in partnership with local and City businesses and their employee volunteers to achieve this goal. We also run programmes to re-engage young people struggling to access mainstream education, both within local schools and through our own Inspired Directions School.

The Integrate Agency CIC is a community interest company with a mission to strengthen the community, voluntary and social enterprise sector. We have built a network of 1311 Integrate Lambeth members since May 2019.

The Community Lambeth contact database includes over 4000 Lambeth VCSE contacts. We have trained over 200 single parents in Lambeth to entry level cybersecurity employment.

Integrate has developed 9 Lambeth consortia including the Lambeth Disability Employment Consortium, LDEC. Over 5000 benefited from Integrate events over the past 36 months.

Intermission Youth helps to transform disadvantaged young people living in deprivation and experiencing high levels of anti-social behaviour, family breakdown, dependency and criminality. We believe that constant support, nurture and care in a young person's life can give them the confidence and believe to make positive choices and change the course of their lives. Intermission Youth Theatre was set up in 2008 when actor Darren Raymond was asked to become Artistic Director.

But the story actually started four years earlier, when Darren discovered Shakespeare's Othello. Here was a character he recognised. Someone, like him, who was vulnerable, isolated, who needed to belong, to find out who he was. Someone who was black.

The combination of Shakespeare's Othello and Darren being given a second chance by two strangers who believed in him, ignited in him a passion to do the same for others. To make a positive difference in the lives of young people. To raise their self-esteem and aspirations through the power of drama, theatre and Shakespeare. Why Shakespeare? Because the issues he wrote about 400 years ago remain as relevant to young people today: knife crime, gang warfare, postcode rivalry, rage, jealousy, betrayal.

Darren was invited to set up Intermission Youth Theatre at a theatre church in the heart of Knightsbridge, London, established by Bishop Rob and Janine Gillion as a safe, reflective and creative space for arts.

Starting with just 4 young people, IYT has seen more than one hundred and fifty 16-25 year olds from different nationalities, faiths and London boroughs take part in the 10-month Youth Theatre programme over the past eleven years.

The Youth Theatre has helped them grow in confidence and raise their aspirations, enabling them to apply to university, set up their own business and seek new job opportunities.

Many graduates have gone on to study at leading drama schools and performed with major national theatre companies including Shakespeare's Globe, the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), as well as in TV, commercials and films.

In 2013 our community programme was established, taking our work into schools, pupil referral units, youth offenders teams and young offenders institutions. Since then, we've engaged with well over 7,000 young people across the UK. The team is made up of IYT graduates and current members who lead drama, theatre games and peer-to-peer conversations and workshops.

Due to the expansion of our programme, Intermission Youth has been established as an independent charitable company.

IntoUniversity provides academic support and mentoring to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, helping them achieve their educational aspirations and go on to university or other higher education opportunities.

IntoUniversity centres offer a welcoming home-from-home for young people: a safe space to learn, explore and succeed. Each local centre offers an innovative programme that supports young people aged seven and up to realise their ambitions, achieve their academic potential, develop vital skills and gain experience of the world of work. IntoUniversity has been working at the heart of communities since 2002, and now operates 41 learning centres in 24 UK towns and cities. We have ambitious plans to expand to 50 centres by 2027 and work with thousands more young people in need of our support. In every location we bring about positive, measurable change. Our annual results show that with our help, thousands of young people achieve their chosen aspiration, including university, further and higher education, employment and work-based training.

Jags Connect is an online self-help community for parents, carers and teachers affected by serious youth violence.

We were born from one family's loss but have grown to support all families in search of brighter futures. We believe in empowering parents, carers, and supporters as they lead our children to safer lives.

We aim to support the local community to dramatically reduce youth violence in South London by 2030.

We aim to do this by:
1. Providing trustworthy information on youth violence for parents, carers and teachers.
2. Building a thriving ecosystem of organisations combating youth violence.
3. Signposting at-risk youth away from harm's way.

We do this by providing:
1. Consolidating resources.
2. An online community forum enabling inter-community support.
3. Early interventions, empowering parents, carers and teachers to recognise the signs and intervene before the incident occurs.
4. Advice and support from a range of partners and community teams.

JCT embodies the shared ethos of a dedicated team of forward-thinking professionals. With over 70 years combined experience of working with young people. Our goal is to equip young people to gain ownership of their lives and overcome barriers to education and achievement.

Our passion for nurturing young people and working with families has made JCT more than just a name, it has come to stand for a way of doing things: with spirit, intuition, instinctive intelligence and teamwork.

Our work makes a lasting impact by helping young people to build skills that will remain useful throughout their lives and by encouraging them to become responsible and involved citizens.We will deliver workshops throughout the week that will offer an opportunity for the youths to gain an experience of a range of activities and gain skills to give them a purpose.

Juvenis is an exciting new charity offering bespoke support and training enabling young people involved in the criminal justice system to turn around their lives and engage with employment, education or training. We exist to benefit disadvantaged young Londoners at risk of criminal involvement by enabling them to improve their life chances and contribute positively to their communities. Our aims are to act as a resource for young Londoners aged 10- 25 by providing advice, assistance, mentoring, recreational and educational activities as a means of improving their conditions of life, helping them to develop their skills, capabilities and to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals; equally advancing their education and enabling them to gain employment.  Our vision is a future where all young Londoners have more than one chance to fulfil their potential.

KCSC is the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s recognised voluntary sector ‘infrastructure’ organisation.

We support voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) through the provision of training, advice and information. We also facilitate the voice of the local voluntary and community sector (VCS) and represent the sector at a strategic level.

Khulisa is a charity working to change the system, change perceptions and change lives. Our programmes are proven to reduce crime by improving the wellbeing, resilience and aspiration of excluded children and prisoners across the UK. We do this by supporting, inspiring and empowering excluded people instead of villainising, neglecting or further punishing them, which is an approach that has failed for far too long.  Khulisa – ‘to nurture’ in Zulu – represents our South African heritage and our core belief that everyone, no matter their background, has the capacity to learn and grow in a safe, nurturing environment. We believe that schools, prisons, communities and government need a much more joined-up approach to help people escape the cycle of social exclusion and crime, which is why we are Britain’s only charity offering behaviour change programmes, training and research services at all key stages of the criminal justice system, giving us an unrivalled breadth of expertise of what works to reduce crime. With this, we are pushing for policy changes, so that we better support our schools, prisons and communities to reduce social exclusion and crime, and create a safer, more inclusive society.

Singled out by Forbes Magazine as one of the "five leading global programmes supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs", the KidsMBA business course, provided by KidsMBA and UK awarding body, ABE Global, is aimed at children aged between 11-15. The course is designed to complement and enhance school education with a real-world taster of the life skills, know-how and aptitude required to run a business and become an entrepreneur. The course is designed to open up the idea of self-employment and business leadership to children from all walks of life. The ABE endorsed KidsMBA programme is designed to be flexible so schools can choose a variety of delivery options (https://www.abeuk.com/kidsMBA).

KnifeCrimes.Org...established in 2006, set up off the back of Prince of Tides, a small Charity formed in 2003 to support bereaved families and those with addiction issues.  The Organisation was founded by Ann Oakes-Odger following the Murder of her Son, Westley Odger on the 12th September, 2005.  As a result of her own experience she researched the need for specialist support for Knife Crime Victims' Families, and found many of the families grieving the loss of their children who were teenagers or younger Victims of fatal stabbings.  She also obtained Statistics for the previous 9 years that showed 2,026 Homicides through 'Knife Crime' as opposed to 601 Homicides through 'Gun Crime'...fatalities are 4 times more likely through 'Knife Crime!'

Ann is also responsible for launching a successful Campaign that resulted in a Review of Schedule 21 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 whereupon a new starting point Tariff of 25 years was introduced in March 2010 specifically to address *Knife Murder (and the use of other weapons):   www.KnifeCrimes.Org/Law-Changes-Knife-Crime.html

Made an MBE by the Queen in her Birthday Honours of 2011...Ann was privileged to be presented with her Medal by the Queen at Buckingham Palace for Services to the Prevention of Knife Crime.

The sudden death through Homicide of a Young Child or Teenager is particularly traumatic for parents, as well as siblings, grandparents and the School friends of the Victim and it is this understanding that forms the basis of our work.

KnifeCrimes.Org...provides a full range of support services, some of which are as follows:

-Bereavement information
-Support with emotional experiences affecting ability to function normally and carry our normal daily routines
-Immediate access to peer support
-Facilitating access to answers for Victims' Families
-Providing a 'Victim Led' organisational management structure
-Ongoing provision of support to Homicide Victims' Families since December, 2006
-Advocacy and assistance in preparing 'Impact Statements'
-Providing Training to Police Family Liaison Officer (Homicide FLO's)...Schools, YOT's and other Agencies
-Access to Training to become a 'Weapons Awareness Facilitator' and other Training Programmes.

Koestler Arts is the UK's best-known prison arts charity. We encourage people in the criminal justice system to change their lives by participating in the arts. We share their artworks with the public, so people can witness this diverse range of voices, stories and talent.

We aim to

1.help prisoners, secure patients and detainees lead more positive lives by motivating them to participate and achieve in the arts.
2.Increase public awareness and understanding of arts by people in the criminal justice system.
3.Be a dynamic, responsive organisation which achieves excellent quality and value for money.

We inspire participation in the arts in the criminal justice system through Awards and Feedback, Mentoring, Sales, Exhibitions and Events. We increase public awareness of the potential of people in the criminal justice system through Exhibitions and Events, Publications and contributing to research.

Our small team is based just outside HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs in west London. We partner with organisations across the UK to develop ambitious, innovative programmes that maximise resources and expertise.

We work across the UK's criminal justice and secure systems. Including custodial settings (prisons, young offenders institutions, medium and high secure hospitals, secure children's homes and immigration centres), and people in the community (on probation, engaged with youth offending teams, and on community sentences).

Lift is Islington Council's healthy living hub for young people. The former Victorian school has been transformed into a 30-station gym equipped with the latest specialist kit, media and computer suite, meeting rooms, indoor and outdoor kitchens, a large dance studio and a roof top terrace with fabulous views over London.

Lift is much more than a place to take part in healthy activities. Young people can come for personal help with apprenticeships, college applications, CVs, looking for work, volunteering or developing projects. We have opportunities to develop skills and experience for employment.

Lift is also here to support with advice and guidance on personal issues, lifestyle decisions and sexual health.

Pulse can help with young people's health queries in the fully-equipped clinical facilities.

The hub is funded by Islington Council and through income generated by hiring out the spaces to local businesses and organisations when it is not being used by young people. Lift is managed by Isledon Arts CIC.

Established in 2013, and operating as an independent charity since 2016, LandWorks has an exemplary track record of reducing reoffending and empowering some of the most marginalised in our society to live more fulfilling and independent lives.

The project started with one member of staff, four prisoners, and a seed of an idea. Now with a strong infrastructure and staff team in place (including two former beneficiaries employed full-time here after their placement), we have transformed a derelict quarry into the 2-acre LandWorks training centre, almost entirely built by our trainees.

Working directly with our local prison, police and probation services, LandWorks provides life-changing placements (average 6 months but flexible) that are individually-tailored to tackle the root causes of offending. Replicating a working day structure, trainees develop practical skills in woodworking, vegetable growing, landscaping, construction, cooking and arts & crafts. Recognising the complex and entrenched needs of many offenders (Social Exclusion Unit, 2002), we have strong links with relevant agencies, and provide 1-2-1 practical support across employment, housing, benefits, addiction, health, mental health and family. External specialists deliver support sessions directly on our site.

Underpinning everything, though, is building trainees' self-worth, confidence and responsibility so that they can lead independent lives after their placement.

Leadership Through Sport & Business is a social mobility charity that prepares and supports bright young people from disadvantaged backgrounds into meaningful roles with major firms. We make sure those at risk of under-employment find careers equal to their ambition and ability, and can contribute from their first day on the job.

Through our employability programmes, we provide young people with personal and professional development to prepare them for the world of work before we look to place them in apprenticeships and full-time roles with leading employers across the UK. We work with employers in a range of sectors including accountancy & finance, digital technology, customer service and law.

Young people receive exclusive interview coaching, CV training, and workshops and events with leading companies and business professionals. Their transferable skills are developed through sports leadership coaching. We partner with top class education providers who provide expert tutoring and accredited qualifications before and during the apprenticeship placements. We place young people in high quality, career-focussed apprenticeship placements in major firms, supported with pastoral support from our Careers Development Managers and professional support from corporate mentors in the first 12 months.

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Leadership Through Sport & Business is a social mobility charity that prepares and supports bright young people from disadvantaged backgrounds into meaningful roles with major firms. We make sure those at risk of under-employment find careers equal to their ambition and ability, and can contribute from their first day on the job.
We focus attention on communities where leadership potential is often wasted and we empower young people in the locations that we work to become future business leaders.

We address all forms of disadvantage: personal, in terms of adverse life events; socio-economic, in terms of class boundaries or lack of social capital; and practical, in terms of preparation young people need for the working world.

Employers increasingly recognise the importance of recruiting young talented individuals from diverse backgrounds. 90% of our employers find that recruiting through LTSB is an effective way of finding diverse, capable young people for entry-level positions, and 83% of our employers agree that our apprentices have been a positive influence on the workplace

Our candidates are capable of making a valuable contribution to an employer but they are held back by a lack of social capital and life skills.  Schools do not adequately prepare them for the world of work, which is why we put so much importance on the pre-work phase of our programme.

Young people in the areas where we work need help to overcome a variety of barriers, lack of opportunity and often generations of unemployment.  We provide them with a real chance and a helping hand to ignite their spark and to develop into well rounded members of their community and dedicated, hard working employees who can ultimately become leaders, movers and shakers.
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Recently awarded £30,000 to deliver the ‘Improving Prospects’ program, with specific anti-weapon content, in schools in Harrow, Newham and Waltham Forest.

“Leap supports young people aged between 11 and 25 to make changes in their lives by gaining a greater understanding of themselves and their relationship with conflict. Many of the young people we work with have grown up in care, are not in mainstream education, are at risk of gang involvement and exploitation, or are caught up in the criminal justice system.

To have the greatest impact we also design training sessions and larger programmes for those who work with young people like local council workers, youth workers, prison officers and other voluntary sector workers, as they are best placed to offer support when conflict arises.

We don’t just stop there, we research into issues facing young people today to develop our understanding of conflict and its causes. This supports policy and practice changes that have a real impact.  

Finally, great leaders and great teams are excellent at managing conflict constructively. We provide management training to all types of organisations which helps build strong teams and spark innovation. This is part of our social enterprise model and generates vital income that allows us to support more young people.”

we run workshops and away days that focus on improving people's connection to nature.

we want to influence a generation to love, care and fight for our beautiful planet.

we curate workshops and courses for schools and local communities.

Our focus is on creating accessible and inclusive green spaces to grow fruit and veg. we also focus on the joys of eating the beautiful produce with cooking workshops for all ages.

Characterised by renewed hope, developed confidence and improved skills, the programmes that we offer give people the chance to grow, expand their horizons, and become agents of change in their own community. We focus on empowering and enhancing the lives of those people most isolated and vulnerable, building their confidence and helping them to learn new skills, so that they may fully live their lives and become a part of their community.

Regardless of the programme, we aim to operate with both a sensitivity and flexibility of response that many people find lacking in services offered by monolithic and sometimes distant statutory bodies. And the range of public-sector-funded programmes that we deliver have their impact and value increased further through the variety of additional volunteer-led services that are offered by both ourselves and the other members of the LifeLine family.

We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to reach their full potential. We believe that no-one should be left isolated from their community.
We know of the increasing pressure that many families are facing, and of how traditional services have trouble even reaching certain groups. It is because of this that we are focused on maximizing the resources we have, to provide smarter and more effective services to the community.

One key way we achieve this is through building partnerships that can allow competence, co-ordination and creativity to flourish. These partnerships are essential in ensuring that people don't fall through the gaps. We have always sought to work with others, not only within in the voluntary sector, but with private enterprises and public sector bodies, in order to provide the best possible solution to the challenges we find.

And many of LifeLine's senior management are involved with the shaping of policy, sitting on boards and committees -- both local and national -- in order to help develop better ways of working. For example SW!TCH is not just another youth programme, it's a youth movement.

LifelLine Projects' SW!TCH draws on LifeLine's 20+ years' experience of working with young people through our award-winning VIP Mentoring scheme, growing since 2000.

Explore their other projects too:
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• SW!TCH – Children and Young People
• Little Learners Nurseries and Pre-Schools
• Champions Support Network – Parents and Carers
• Healthwatch Barking and Dagenham
• The LifeLine Family

“Lives Not Knives is an organisation dedicated to reducing knife and gang related crime in Croydon and elsewhere in London by:

• Using a Mentoring and Befriending approach that is dedicated to helping young people at risk.

• Supporting young people into employment, education and training.

• Focusing on training for young people in schools to ensure they are safe at home, at school or college and in their social and leisure time activities.

• Providing safe places for young people to meet, socialise and make friends in a relaxed environment.

Lives Not Knives focuses on work with young people aged 11 to 24 who have been referred to the organisation by teachers, parents and agencies or who have referred themselves to LNK. We are Croydon based but work across London with schools, colleges and other partner organisations to reduce the risk of gang related violence to young people. Our approach is preventative; we work with young people through our youth mentors who are trained in explaining the dangers of association with gangs, and working with small groups and individuals who are at risk. We are a youth led organisation, we listen and act on the views of our expert youth mentors who are familiar with the real world of gang culture and this forms the basis of our work in Croydon and elsewhere.”

Locality supports local community organisations to be strong and successful. Our national network of over 600 members helps more than 400,000 people every week. We offer specialist advice, peer learning and campaign with members for a fairer society. Together we unlock the power of community.

This is the first pan-London service covering all 32 boroughs. The LGE service transcends borough boundaries to create a consistent service across the capital. The service is designed to complement and enhance existing local services across London, and fill in the gaps in provision. The LGE service provides traditional one to one caseworker support from a trauma based approach, as well as meeting the complex and specialist needs of the client group, including mental health support, employment support, family support and housing advocacy. LGE empowers young people to move away from gang lifestyles by providing support to exit, developing new skills, and providing the opportunity for social reintegration into the community through support, guidance and practical help.

Over the last 30 years, Professional Football Club Community Organisations such as the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, Charlton Athletic Community Trust, Palace for Life and Arsenal in the Community, have become important community catalysts. They have used their profile, skills and knowledge to engage groups of people who are often marginalised and socially disadvantaged and helped improve their life chances.

Collectively, these Club Community Organisations raise and spend over £40m annually in London and engage tens of thousands of people every week. This includes working through programmes funded centrally by the Premier League Charitable Fund such as Premier League Kicks, Primary Stars and Inspires, as well as others commissioned by statutory agencies and grant giving charitable trusts. In order to deliver greater collective impact across the capital, these 14 Club Community Organisations formed London United, a not for profit organisation that aims to:

• Share knowledge and best practice.

• Work with London wide organisations to understand how football clubs and the sport can help address wider social issues.

• Deliver London wide programmes which improve lives, particularly young lives.

We are London Youth, a charity on a mission to improve the lives of young people in London, challenging them to become the best they can. Young people need opportunities outside school to have fun with their friends, to learn new skills, to make a positive change in their communities and to shape the city they live in.

Last year, we worked with over 27,000 young people through our sports development, employability, youth action and involvement, arts and outdoor education programmes. Our work gives young people access to opportunities they might not otherwise have had.

Throughout our history, community youth organisations have provided a constant lifeline and a vital safe space outside the family and formal education, where young people can develop confidence, resilience and skills.

Our vision is that all young Londoners grow up healthy, able to express themselves, navigate a fulfilling career and make a positive contribution in their communities.

Our mission is to support and challenge young people to become the best they can be; developing their confidence, resilience and relationship skills.

We do this with, and through, our network of community youth organisations and at our two residential centres. We look to work with all young people, focusing particularly on those who wouldn’t otherwise have access to the kind of opportunities we offer.

Supported by the Youth Justice Board, Levelling the Playing Field (LtPF) uses the power of sport and physical activity to engage and improve health and life outcomes for ethnically diverse children who aremore likely to enter, or already involved with, the Criminal Justice System.

'Reducing harm' by:

- Developing bespoke mentoring programmes
- Training 60 x Level 3 Trauma Responsive Mentors
- Engaging over 1200 mentees
- Using a bespoke mentoring and neuro-diversity app to capture impact
- Increasing support and development opportunities for mentors

'Reversing harm' by:

- Delivering over 40 x weekly sessions of sport and physical activity in communities and the secure estate
- Engaging the 'voice of the child' and coordinating action towards our common goals
- Supporting the learning and development of front-line staff and understanding how it impacted on them and over 10,000 children and young people
- Building a Community of Practice and providing one-to-one support for staff to boost wellbeing and organisational achievement and growth
Delivering regional and national networking events

'Preventing harm' by:

- Showcasing 'what works' and championing Local Delivery Partners nationally
- Promoting role models and raising their profile
- Developing strategic partnerships to help respond to the voice and needs of the child
- Making the relevant connections to improve the breadth of open access data
- Using an evidence informed approach to advance policy, practice and investment

At MAC-UK, our approach to services and practice is called the INTEGRATE approach.

MAC-UK works with several different projects all across London.  A visit to our website will show you where they have been located.

We are disseminating our approach by working with innovative statutory and third sector organisations who work with the most excluded young people. The projects below all draw on MAC-UK’s approach.  

These projects aim to generate youth led solutions, co-produce projects and employ those with lived experience, draw on evidence-based psychological practice and attempt to tackle the root causes of mental ill-health by changing wider social, economic and health policy that creates exclusion and inequality.

INTEGRATE is a psychologically informed approach, delivers multi-level interventions that create change in social environments and co-produce services with those who have lived experience. To reach those who are most excluded, the MAC-UK approach is to go out to where they are and offer a flexible, responsive and holistic service which goes beyond just providing one to one therapy. This means working in communities (sometimes even in the streets), not in clinics! INTEGRATE, implements a set of service level and practice level principles to work alongside young people and communities.

We work to improve the lives of young people and communities who experience difficulty and disadvantage. We work to create a sense of pride, inspiration, ownership, wellbeing and belonging, and to provide life-long learning opportunities. We provide a range of holistic services that promote inclusion and demonstrate the value and potential in our communities. We work with a focus on children and young people, together with parents and families to address the primary causes of social exclusion, criminal and risky behaviour, and to provide learning, training, employment and mentoring opportunities.

Make Time Count Today Limited is a UK based social enterprise operating nationally, and is committed to providing digital solutions that help the most vulnerable. 51% of all profits generated from these activities will be re-invested into a fund to support companies started by vulnerable individuals.

Are you Struggling?  We all need help sometimes. With anything from Housing, finding a job, mental health or addiction issues.

Support is out there, but it can be hard to find. That's where Make Time Count comes in.

Making Time Count are aiming to build the UK's largest directory of support services. Simple search for what you need, add you postcode and click to request help. We invite you to leave feedback on your experience to help others.

MCWG are a community organisation working mostly with young people from black and ethnic minority (BME) backgrounds in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea, which has the second-highest percentage of Arabic-speaking residents in the UK. They were set up 22 years ago to help tackle a range of complex challenges including poverty, unemployment and a lack of educational support. Today some of the key issues affecting young people in our community include alienation and disengagement, so we aim to enhance young peoples’ self-esteem while teaching them responsibility, promoting integration and discouraging anti-social behaviour. From football training to cookery lessons, help with schoolwork, group trips, employment support, counselling and advice on mental health, we work actively to enable children and young adults to engage in and contribute to wider society. MCWG were recently awarded £26,625 to deliver outreach for 24 weeks followed by group workshops, one-to-one sessions and general youth centre provision for 40 young BAME men in Kensington and Chelsea.

Making the Leap is an innovative grassroots social justice charity that aims to make a big difference. From direct delivery, to advocacy and leadership, we refuse to stay in our lane and believe passionately that those we exist to serve have the right to be anything they want to be.

Our mission is to transform the futures of disadvantaged young people in the UK by providing training to raise their aspirations and develop their skills, behaviours and attitudes to choose and succeed in a career. We work directly with young people from deprived backgrounds in London, and we aim to increase our reach and impact through replicating our model with partners nationwide. We use what we learn in our delivery operations to raise awareness of the importance of social mobility among UK businesses and encourage them to take action to improve it.

Mas Lab operates from Kidderminster College but is part of NGO https://www.ncgrp.co.uk/ with colleges in Lewisham and Southwark.
We collaborate with organizations across the UK to varying degrees and our maslab website carries details of our activities relating to fighting knife crime and youth violence.

Milk and Honey Bees is an expressive safe space that allows young women and girls to flourish and take ownership of H.E.R (Healing, Empowerment and Resilience) through 1:1 sessions and creative group projects.

We aim to enable young women and girls, who are often deemed as hard to engage, a safe space to express creatively and the chance to feel supported and access opportunities, as well as gain skills to navigate in society. Milk and Honey is a project that supports young women on their journey of healing whilst equipping them with social, employment and life skills that enable them to mobilise in their communities.

At some point in each of our lives we are all reliant on being presented with an opportunity… Movement to Work operates in a world of opportunity and seeks to break the vicious ‘no job – no experience’ cycle that is preventing young people, not currently in education, employment or training, from stepping onto the career ladder. By supporting organisations in providing quality vocational employment and work placement opportunities, Movement to Work helps to drive both business performance and bring about lasting social change.

We work with employers to find the best solution for their organisation; either in-house with delivery through their own resource or through a training provider to support them in delivering their programme(s).

Through our approved network of training providers and youth outreach organisations, we can link unemployed young people with employers. By equipping organisations with the tools to successfully deliver a vocational employment or work experience programme, we ensure that the next generation of talent is being provided with the skills to succeed, positively impacting business performance and driving social good.

"The national body for youth work in England". We have a steadfast belief in young people and their potential to shape the world, no matter what society puts in their way. NYA is dedicated to:

1. Championing youth work in all its many forms – showcasing great practice, incubating new approaches, celebrating its many thousands of practitioners and winning more understanding of the value and depth of the discipline among policy-makers, educators and employers.

2. Professionalising youth work –training youth workers, setting occupational standards, offering accreditation for professional development, and constantly researching, innovating and improving the methodologies and practice of youth work in all its forms.

3. Enabling youth work –making it happen through our networks of front-line youth work providers, our deep experience of managing complex projects and through innovative tie-ups and funding arrangements with imaginative commercial and public sector partners.

NYA holds a unique position within the youth sector, offering guidance, support, advice, training, and staff development opportunities for youth workers and youth work organisations.  We deliver training both face-to-face and through our online learning Academy. Our team of Youth Work Specialists are experienced youth workers and teaching staff and are well placed to support professional development of staff teams and individuals.

As the PSRB we are responsible for quality assurance and compliance for all Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) recognised programmes in the country through the Education Training Standards committee, and more widely in the UK through JETS. This includes quality assurance and compliance on youth work programmes from Level 2 - 6.

National Youth Music Theatre offers exceptional opportunities in pre-professional musical theatre training for talented young people aged 10 to 23. We offer skills workshops, masterclasses and residential courses led by industry professionals. We commission and present exciting new work and – in collaboration with some of the UK's leading creative minds – produce bold, new realisations of major works of the core repertoire.

NYMT represents the very best in work with young people through musical theatre, enabling thousands across the UK to develop both their creative and personal potential – leading Andrew Lloyd Webber to dub it "the best youth music theatre in the world".

Many of us enter adult life without a way of making sense of the challenges we face in life. When it comes to understanding ourselves and other people, it can feel at times as though we are missing some of the essential pages of life's instruction manual. And that matters, because it impacts how happy we feel, how well we thrive at work, and how effective we are in contributing to a better world.

Whether you are trying to make a tricky decision, communicate more effectively, parent the way you want to, or make a difference in the world, Needs Understanding can help. It's based on one simple, powerful idea: that whenever we do something, it's in order to meet our underlying shared human needs like belonging, purpose, knowing we matter and fun. Once we know how to apply it, we have new tools for thriving at home and at work.
Alice Sheldon our founder works with organisations and teams to bring the unique insights of Needs Understanding to your work.

Needs Understanding trains, consults, mentors and works alongside you to support you and enhance what you are doing.
Look at at our website and discover more about what we do.

The New Futures Network (NFN) is a specialist part of Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). We broker partnerships between prisons and employers in England and Wales. These partnerships help businesses fill skills gaps and prison leavers find employment.

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Operation Black Vote is non-partisan and not-for-profit national organisation that was established in 1996 to address the Black British and ethnic minority democratic deficit. Focusing on voter registration, lobbying politicians and mentoring schemes, OBV aims to inspire black and minority ethnic communities to engage with public institutions to address the perceived race inequalities in areas including education, health and employment.

OCG Solutions are a violence reduction and offender rehabilitation consultancy who provide expert advice and services to professionals, organisations as well as individuals. OCG Solutions can provide preventative initiatives which will allow you to avoid potential problems and mitigate risks in new ways.

We use unorthodox methods which have proven effective in preventing children and young people from becoming criminally inclined and entering the OCG / gang arena.

With OCG Solutions, you can be confident you will receive the correct support, advice and training in how to apply effective techniques aimed at building resilience and awareness in children and young people which will significantly reduce the prospect of them being groomed, recruited and exploited by gangs or Organised Crime Groups. OCG Solutions recognise that community cohesion is vital to preventing and reducing crime within communities.

We can can develop strategies to promote and restore cohesion within your local community whilst providing ideas for local projects which can be implemented effectively in accord with the individual circumstances to that particular community.

We recognise that community dynamics differ between different communities and there is no one solution approach.

OCG Solutions will work to exclusively develop an effective plan of action aimed at reducing crime and anti social behaviour whilst developing community cohesion.

Octopus Network is a Network of 15 of Islington's largest multi-purpose community centres. We are passionate about the role that Community Centres play in local communities as they are often at the heart of communities, offering and hosting an ever-expanding range of services, public events and activities, and spaces to meet friends and contribute to community life.

Octopus collaborates with Voluntary Action Islington to develop the infrastructure needed to deliver the ambitions for local residents to take a proactive role in tackling health issues in Islington.

Wellbeing Networks aims to deliver Fairer Together to build and strengthen the partnership of services working together to tackle inequality and create a fairer Islington.

The Social Change Agency and Community Organisers bring to the Network development their tried and tested networking building canvas and community organising to ensure a community-led approach.

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Perhaps you’ve heard of the rehabilitation revolution – it’s been much debated at parliamentary level for some time. We’re here to ensure it happens. Offploy has created a pathway to connect business and ex-offenders, and support both parties throughout every step of the employment journey. For businesses, we offer specialist legal advice, HR guidance, staff training and more, so that from start to finish, you only face opportunities, not obstacles

Our dedicated team of peer mentors also support ex-offenders through a nine-step journey into employment helping with goal setting, employer training, interview skills and we continue to support candidates once they’ve achieved a secure position. We are on a mission to reduce reoffending and make society safer by placing people with criminal convictions into meaningful, mentored and sustainable employment.

ONLY A PAVEMENT AWAY is a charity founded by representatives from the hospitality industry. We act as a conduit to support vulnerable homeless, ex-offenders and veterans to overcome hurdles by finding jobs within the hospitality, pub and restaurant industry. We are not a recruitment agency and solely focus on helping those on the project to find work. Outside of the moral benefits, the project is underpinned by a strong commercial and financial benefit to the hospitality, pub & restaurant industry whilst reducing the ever increasing strain on funding required for those who find themselves in such extreme circumstances. Homeless charity, Crisis, have worked with us from the very beginning to ensure that the standards required to help someone return to work are adhered to and are in no way compromised. For those who are on the project but are not / nor are in danger of being homeless or sleeping rough then the same high standards apply. The funds raised by ONLY A PAVEMENT AWAY will be used to support those returning to work, supplement the resources required by the charities/associations to manage the project and promote the jobs available. The ethos of the project is based on a very simple concept, that no matter who or where you are, you are ONLY A PAVEMENT AWAY.

The OYA approach to learning and personal development is HOLISTIC.

Our activities range from formal National Curriculum lessons to vocational training, drama, dance & drumming, football, fashion and public speaking.
In many ways, the young people who participate in OYA activities in 2020 have not changed much in the 20 years since we started. They:

*are all pre-teenagers or teens, ages ranging from 10 to 19.
*come from all over Africa – east, west, south - and the Caribbean
*live all over London, but mostly in Barnet, Harrow and Brent.
*attend 40 different primary and secondary schools.

Osmani Trust is a youth and community organisation based in Tower Hamlets. The Trust offers a wide range of community, health and sporting initiatives tailored to the needs of the community. It aims to provide a holistic service, which helps people, particularly those living in disadvantaged urban communities to re-engage with mainstream society and improve their quality of life. Through its provisions, Osmani Trust seeks to address issues impacting the community including substance misuse, racial tensions, criminality and anti-social behaviour, territoriality and gang-related violence, unemployment and overcrowding, lack of training and employment opportunities. It also places strong emphasis on the health and social welfare of the community.

We aim to educate, challenge, and change the way the exploitation of children, young people, and vulnerable adults is discussed, viewed, and understood in the UK.
We aim to give a unique view and understanding of exploitation from the eyes of the victim.
We aim to give the survivors and the families of exploitation a chance to step out of the shadows and be heard. Our expertise is in developing toolkits, handbooks, audits, and deep dive of safeguarding files.
We offer several services for children and young people including 1:1 mentoring, group work and advocacy. Out of the Shadows offer the opportunity of motivational and thought-provoking keynote speakers that will educate and inspire audiences

Our Mission is to support offenders, ex-offenders, victims and people at risk of offending and victimisation thereby improving their life chances and future prospects.

Our Vision is to make a positive difference in the lives of adults and young people who are, or at risk of becoming, perpetrators and victims of crime. Through supporting them to access Education, Training, Employment, and other support consistent with their needs, we will reduce the risks of re-offending and future victimisation. By continued learning and effective partnership working we will adapt our service delivery to meet the needs of clients we engage with in different geographical locations

Project GRAE is a transformative initiative rooted in its acronym: Grow, Rise, Aspire, Empower. We are a visionary initiative with a steadfast commitment to empowerment, particularly within marginalised communities. Our mission centres around imparting invaluable knowledge about legal rights, and we achieve this through dynamic and informative sessions and talks. By addressing critical issues, such as increased knife crime, instances of police misconduct, abuse, or excessive use of force (including the potential abuse of stop-and-search powers), we strive to foster a deeper understanding of legal principles and societal challenges that arise when these principles are not upheld.

Pecan is a community development charity based in Peckham. We work with South East London communities to help people find a way through seemingly impossible barriers to a better future. Over the past 25 years, we’ve seen 27,000 clients flourish through our programs, including: ex-offenders and their families, refugees and asylum seekers, young people and the long-term unemployed. We see our service users as people who need supporting – not problems which need solving. We advocate for those we work with, challenging inequality and injustice at a local and national level to provide hope and belief in a better a future for our community.

Our vision is that empathy-led services and systems support ALL children, teenagers, and young adults to achieve their dreams and lead their best lives.
Our mission is to be a caring support network for young people, helping to change their lives through trusted, healthy relationships. We empower them to positively change the lives of others and bring more empathy into the services that are designed to help them.

The yyuoperate a wide range of projects and activities involving violence reduction, bespoke projects, therapeutic support, training, and personal development. Their training is co-produced and co-facilitated with our Young Partners. Aimed at organisations and professionals, this training is here to help you understand and embed co-production in your work. They also facilitate training and co-produce toolkits and resources ensuring user voice is at the heart of organisations within the Health and Justice sector.

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Peer2Peer train young people (Peer Educators) to deliver workshops in schools and other youth organisations. Our sessions cover a wide range of topics affecting young people today, such as: Gun and Knife Crime, Sex and the Law, Online Safety, Bullying, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Stereotypes, Peer Pressure, Self Confidence, Relationships and more!  We provide the information, advice and support young people need to help them make well informed decisions about situations they face on a daily basis. Their Gun and Knife Crime workshops can be delivered for as little as just £5.00 per student. A small price if it helps to save a life.

PeoplePlus is a leading public service provider, supporting hundreds of thousands of people each year. Our mission is to make a direct difference to the lives of 1 million people by 2022. Our reach spans from Scotland, across to Wales and Northern Ireland and all across England.

We run a number of frontline public services including employment support, skills training, apprenticeships, independent living, and prison education on behalf of the government, as well as recruitment, training and development and wellbeing solutions to employers. We aim to:

• Support people to find and keep jobs, and help others set up their own businesses

• Deliver skills and training to ensure people can access the right employment and enhance their career prospects

• Help people live more independently with disability and carer support services

• Reduce the risk of reoffending by tackling the root causes of crime and offending

• Work with businesses to attract talent and develop workforces through apprenticeships and learning and development programmes.

• Develop wellbeing strategies for businesses that look to improve mental health in the workplace

Steps to improve the employability of offenders are part of the government’s aim to drive a ‘Rehabilitation Revolution’ to create more purposeful regimes that help reduce reoffending and the Coalition Programme committed to ensuring prisoners engage in “properly paid work”. Some good examples of creative employment in custody already exist, but major obstacles remain in the current system that need to be overcome before HM Prison Service can deliver on the government’s objectives. Inside Job maps out what real work in prison should look like and what needs to change in the current prison system to make it a reality.

Helping young people turn their dreams into reality.

Positive Role Models is a North London based community interest company, committed to supporting young people, so that they are empowered to be successful in education and in life. Our mission is to help create bright futures, regardless of race, gender, background or current circumstances.

Through bespoke projects and workshops, that often combine the power of sport and peer-to-peer mentoring, Positive Role Models engages with young people under the age of 25, to raise their aspirations, so that they can clearly define their own ambitions and develop a wide range of skills and qualifications, that enrich every area of their life.

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PTG founder Dan Brown and their Executive Chairman Sir Ken Olisa OBE have each been at the forefront in positively encouraging Fighting Knife Crime London and the particular ethos we promotes among the organisations whose details can be found on this website.

Dan Brown writes “PTG is a collaboration of organisations supporting Charitable Opportunity and our campaign of Positively Impacting 1 Billion Lives by providing the right networks, connections, resources, and opportunities to create brighter better futures.

Everything depends on our ability to make other people's lives better. This is not some CSR bolt-on to business as usual, with a need to tick some boxes and write an impact report for a boardroom coffee table. We are driven by purpose not financial targets and will be positively impacting 1 billion lives by providing the right networks, connections, resources, and opportunities to create brighter better futures.

I am committed to making sure we are transparent, inclusive, and accessible in everything we do. No exceptions, no excuses.

I hold a firm, unshakable belief in myself and the people around me. We have grit, determination, and a relentless will to lead a new era of Positive Transformation during a time it is needed most, and we will be mercilessly persistent in creating brighter, better futures for those who need help, support and encouragement.

Our focus in 2021 is to lift a minimum of 1 million people out of digital poverty and connect them to new opportunities through education and pathways to employment.

Prison radio offers a unique, innovative and effective way to communicate with prisoners and engage them in education, debate and community. Working alongside serving prisoners and focusing on speech radio, the PRA produces and delivers National Prison Radio, broadcasting information and educational materials which support the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) reducing reoffending agenda.

Through our varied programming, we provide additional practical and emotional support for groups with specific needs. We've run series of programmes highlighting specific support available for ex-service personnel, care leavers, women in prison, young people behind bars, the disproportionate number of Gypsy and Traveller people behind bars, as well as programming addressing age, ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality and LGBTQ+ issues.

At Project Lifeline we have been working under the radar as a family run unit serving our communities for many years. Our organisation was established to address the growing need for gang related crime prevention especially concerning vulnerable young people in South London.

At Project Lifeline, our mission is to prevent crime and improve the lives of those in need, by providing essential crime prevention services and support to our community. We believe that everyone deserves the chance to turn their lives around. We work effortlessly with young gang affiliated people, male and female. Our methods of communication have proven to be successful

Project ReMAKE is a simple entrepreneurship training programme for formerly incarcerated people. The 12 week programme teaches basic business skills to aspiring ex-offenders, helping them to build, launch and sustain self-employed businesses.

Our UK programme is following much of the same style and features of the US Stanford Programme, but is independent of it. We work alongside universities to convey their ethos of support, learning, camaraderie, and motivation. None of our participants in 2018 and 2019 have attended a university; this course allows them to become part of the university community and be mentored by students and a faculty.

Project ReMake is rapidly expanding to offer courses and mentoring in partnership with two organisations, Capital City College and Visionnaires.

Project Zero main aim is to see a year when there has been ZERO deaths of a young person through knife or violent crime:

• Engage Young People in Positive Activities to promote social inclusion and reduce anti-social / offending behaviour.

• Raise the aspirations of young people in reaching their full potential and grow into well adjusted adults.

• Help young people to feel safe and part of their Community.

Our Objectives:

• Deliver creative and exciting projects that engage young people in positive activities.

• Encourage young people to engage in Youth Social Action projects. To be part of the change.

• Create long lasting sustainable projects that will have a wider impact for the community as a whole.

• Create and promote employment opportunities for the most at risk young people of becoming a victim or perpetuator of a violent crime.

• Support young people into further education, employment or training where appropriate, through workshops, events and information sharing.

• Facilitate networking events and activities for other organisations that engage young people with our same agenda.

• Share resources, good practices, tools and templates for engaging young people.

• Work in partnership with other like-minded organisations to tackle the complex issues around knife and violent crime.

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Rethink Mental Illness was formed almost 50 years ago by a group of inspiring people who were caring for a loved one living with schizophrenia. Since then, the experiences and knowledge of carers and people living with mental illness have been vital in helping our organisation improve the lives of thousands of people every year. Together, we’ve done this by developing and establishing expert information and advice, services and support groups for people severely affected by mental illness. We’ve also provided training and launched local and national campaigns that have changed, and continue to change, how people and society as a whole view and behave towards people living with mental illness. Today we directly support almost 60,000 people every year across England to get through crises, to live independently and to realise they are not alone.

There are excellent links here to assist ex-offenders and all others who are seeking employment, volunteering roles and many other jobs influencing social change and empowerment of young people.  It is a dynamic site, which is best summarised as follows:

Radical Recruit is a pioneering recruitment revolution - a movement which excites, agitates and shakes things up in the recruitment industry. We bridge the gap between disadvantaged job seekers and the business world. We simultaneously deploy our business mind and community heart to facilitate the leap, from the rhetoric of diversity, equality and inclusion, to action. Action that manifests in authentic, diverse, equitable and inclusive practice. Action that transforms the lives of disadvantaged candidates and their children. Action that prevents children and young people from going into care. Action that reduces homelessness. Action that decreases crime and re-offending. Action that alleviates poverty including in-work poverty. Action that addresses the inequity of opportunity faced by young people from ethnic minorities. Action that recognises the skills obtained in service of country by returned veterans. Action that celebrates difference of ability. Action that dismantles the systems and structures which render our candidates powerless. Radical Recruit supports disadvantaged job seekers as they strive to make better lives for themselves and their families. We represent candidates who courageously take action to regain control of their futures. Radical Recruit provides seamless recruitment consultancy services and sponsorship opportunities to some of England’s biggest and most reputable employers. We only work with employers who can demonstrate a genuine commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion and want help to turn that commitment into action. Radical Recruit acts as an expert intermediary. We broker connections between the corporate world and local government as well as other third sector providers who share the responsibility of providing vulnerable people with opportunities to access paid employment. Our unique and applied understanding of the not for profit sector; coupled with our expansive network of employers across all sectors, and our recruitment skills and expertise, enables us to support our charity and government partners to deliver on their mandated responsibility to take action.

Raw Material is a creative arts and music centre for young people and adults, working in both the local area in Lambeth, further afield across London, in other regions of the UK and internationally.

The extensive and widely inclusive programme maintains access for those with the greatest needs and our ethos places positive transformation at the forefront of creative pursuits.
We believe that the arts and music, delivered in a socially and culturally relevant way, have the power to change and shape people's lives. The knowledge, skills and experience made possible by the performing and visual arts, music, film and in creative experimentation, are essential to young people's and adults' development, including access to professional resources to create and celebrate the outcomes, both in real-time and digitally.

The cultural learning and practice we support take place in the community, in hospitals, in museums, with arts, voluntary and community organisations, schools and colleges and informally in the wider world, creating opportunities for children, young people and adults to express their ideas and form their values. Through cultural learning and experience, young people and members of the community are encouraged to explore and be inspired to contribute to the arts, music and culture of the present – and the future.

The Reach Foundation seeks to:

• Have impact in communities. Starting in Feltham, the Foundation seeks to have a transformative impact on communities, making them beacons of social mobility and opportunity for young people, and developing evidenced-based best practice for effectively tackling the complex difficulties affecting vulnerable families.

• Provide new models and challenge for the system:  Across the range of its activities, the Foundation seeks to influence policy and practice through its well-documented, codified and stress-tested approach to delivering change.

The Reach Foundation is now running Reach Children's Hub, a new initiative providing cradle-to-career programmes and services to benefit local children, young people and families in Feltham.

As at 16/11/21 this is a holding page for a new website. This is an exciting new project for creating and empowering through coaching and training.  This information wil be updated.