Hillingdon Council's award-winning AXIS project (so named because it supports young people at a crossroads in their lives) is making a real difference to children at risk of exploitation, and is fast becoming a beacon of good practice for local authorities and the police. AXIS collates, organises and applies information in a way that helps to identify young people at risk of exploitation and informs meaningful interventions delivered by skilled practitioners. Data mapping is the 'engine' driving the AXIS programme, and is seen as the future of targeted intervention and joint commissioning to keep more children safe and free from statutory intervention.

The Anti-Tribalism Movement is a non-profit organisation committed to tackling tribalism and promoting fairer and more equitable societies.

The ATM’s vision and track record are based on a cohesive and dynamic society where every person’s rights are protected regardless of tribe, clan, gender or political belief.

The Colindale Communities Trust is a charity committed to developing sustainable services and projects that improve the economic and social wellbeing of people who live in and around Colindale. We work together with local people and a range of partners to support and empower the local community.

We currently manage the One Stop Shop community hub on Grahame Park.

Common Purpose is devoted to developing leaders who can cross boundaries. Between geographies, generations, sectors, specialisations, backgrounds and beliefs. Both at work and in society.

CVA’s principal activity is to promote charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in Croydon and its surrounding areas. CVA carries out its leadership role by promoting a bigger role for VCOs in the life of the borough and by supporting local people to represent their community’s interests and to negotiate on its behalf.  CVA’s mission statement focuses the organisation on “building stronger communities for social change by supporting citizens to take active roles in their neighbourhoods and by championing community organisations that nurture and celebrate local strengths." As the key local umbrella infrastructure body serving all Croydon’s communities, we run a wide range of services for small groups, social enterprises, larger charities and volunteers at all stages of development.

Whether it's joining a community network, volunteering, catching up with the latest news for the sector, or our property service, you will find this information on our website, where you can read our CVA Theory of Change 2019.

CVA has five strategic aims:

• To empower Croydon’s communities

• To strengthen volunteering in the community

• To support the growth and development of community organisations in Croydon

• To advocate on behalf of Croydon’s community organisations

• To work in partnership across the VCS and all sectors

DASL is a Disabled People’s Organisation, which works with disabled people and with carers, mainly in the London Borough of Lambeth.

Barristers' Chambers with a focus on Civil Liberties and Human Rights law.

There is something special about seeing a young person overcome the inequality of opportunity or circumstances outside of their control. In each of our students we’re hoping to plant that spark of aspiration, to nurture a sense of hope that they can direct their own future, and to enable them to reach their goals. We want to see a society where no young person is disadvantaged, sidelined or disempowered by the circumstances of their upbringing. Instead, we want to see vulnerable children accessing the same opportunity and carrying the same aspiration as everyone else, so that they can fulfil their potential and enrich and advance our world.

We’re doing this by:

• Building a different kind of teaching community, one made up of resourceful, resilient, caring tutors, who are ceaselessly driven by the profound impact they can have on young lives.

• Enabling these tutors to provide effective, empathetic, life-changing tuition to children living in care and disadvantage.

The Evelyn Oldfield Unit is an independent, membership-based, charitable organisation. Through our projects and services, we have helped improve the lives of those from migrant, refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds. From advice and guidance and practical language skills to supporting the growth of their community organisations.

Groundwork is a federation of charities working locally and nationally to transform lives in the UK’s most disadvantaged communities.

HASVO is an independent not for profit organisation that is dedicated to supporting ethnic minority residents in Harrow. The main focus is support for the Somali Community in Harrow. HASVO is the Centre for the Somali Community in Harrow and aims to strengthen the links between all community groups within Harrow. We undertake projects that encourage communities to live and work together. Our aim is to build the capacity for individuals and groups to live more effectively within the wider community.

For over two decades we have supported the voluntary and community sector to be at the heart of providing solutions to Hackney’s problems.

As an important local organisation and umbrella body for the sector we are committed to making Hackney a fairer place because we believe everyone should have the best start in life and the best opportunities to succeed regardless of their background, race, social class, gender, sexuality or disability.

We see our role interchangeably as enabler, facilitator, champion and servant to local communities.

Haringey Association of Voluntary and Community Organisations (HAVCO) is the umbrella organisation for the community and voluntary sector in Haringey. As the biggest organisation for non-profits in the borough, HAVCO is a strategic leader, using their influence to gain greater recognition for the sector and bridging that impact with local government policy. HAVCO is working to help everyone in the community, to ensure all voices are heard. This is made possible through the establishment of effective networking and with collaboration within the voluntary and community organisations and external partners. The primary purpose of HAVCO is to improve the quality, standards and capacity of the infrastructure support to members.

Volunteers are the lifeblood of most community groups, sharing their talents and gifts for the benefit of others. A biennial award ceremony supported by local businesses rewards this by awarding gifts selected from valentinesgiftideas.co.uk, in a night of special celebration.

Hope not Hate is an advocacy group based in the United Kingdom. It campaigns against racism and fascism. More recently, it has mounted campaigns against Islamic extremism and antisemitism. It is a self-described non-partisan, non-sectarian third party organisation.

This is an interactive map of all London Boroughs providing direct links useful information about each,including opportunities for volunteering. It does not provide the information of a kind specific to the aims of www.fightingknifecrime.london butit may prove a use full starting pointer further borough research.

The charitable aims of the Inter Faith Network are:

“.....to advance public knowledge and mutual understanding of the teachings, traditions and practices of the different faith communities in Britain including awareness both of their distinctive features and their common ground and to promote good relations between persons of different faiths.”

Through its meetings and its advice and information service, IFN, with its member bodies, helps make better known and understood the teachings, traditions and practices of the different faith communities in the UK and the pattern of their inter faith work and builds good relations between people of different faiths in the UK.

Through its Inter Faith Week programme, and through other ad hoc routes, it also works to develop greater understanding between those of religious and those of non-religious beliefs.

We exist to help children and young people overcome all the difficulties they face, from problems at school and issues with immigration status to trouble with the police.

With rising deprivation and public services under pressure, our work is more important than ever.

Some information about how to seek support for local groups.

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Information about community assistance, support, mentoring, befriending and volunteering in Lewisham.

Lifetimes is proud to have handed out over  962 care packs to individuals experiencing homelessness in South London. It has been great working with such committed organisations both big and small. We would like to say a huge thank you to all the organisations who have hosted a donation box, the individuals who have donated items directly or those who have given money via our Just Giving page. We look forward to reaching out to more people in need.

Lost Hours is a campaign aiming to tackle the rise in youth violence and anti-social behaviour in Barking and Dagenham.

If you’re concerned that a young person could be in danger due to their involvement in a gang, youth violence, or anti-social behavior, or you’re worried they’re being exploited by a gang, the website provides hotline numbers to call in all circumstances. If you believe the young person is in immediate danger, call the police on 999.

Manhood Academy Global (M.A.G.) is a registered Charity with a global reach that is committed to our children’s life-changing transformation opportunities.  The world is transforming at an alarming rate.  According to the Office of National Statistics, men account for 8 out of 10 people cautioned by police, and nearly 9 out of 10 people found guilty for indictable offences are men.  Men are responsible for 97% of burglary and 92% of violence against the person.  It is clear that we are living in society where something awful is happening to men. There seems to be a gap between manhood and adolescence and our mission at Manhood Academy Global is to address that gap by helping our sons make that transition from childhood to manhood.  

We could be here all day dissecting the issues within our community, issues that seem to be spearheaded by men.  Whatever your social standpoint, we cannot stick our heads in the sand pretending that there is no problem.  There is a massive issue and this issue is having a major effect on society.

   “If you do not initiate the boy into the village he will burn it down just to feel the warmth” – African saying.

A campaign to reduce the incidences of violent crime involving knives on the streets of the UK.

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Inspirational leaders from London’s world-class creative organisations appointed as cultural ambassadors to guide the Mayor’s vision for culture in the capital.

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) is the UK’s largest and most diverse national Muslim umbrella organisation with over 500 members including mosques, schools, charitable associations and professional networks.

North London Cares is a community network of young professionals and older neighbours hanging out and helping one another in our rapidly changing city. We do this because London is a place of extremes. While our capital is one of the most dynamic places in the world, full of cultural and economic opportunities and a hotbed of innovation and change, it can also be anonymous, lonely and isolating. For our older neighbours in particular, many of whom have spent a lifetime in their home neighbourhoods in Camden and Islington, the rush and pace of the city can often now feel too much. Getting around can be frightening, and trends including globalisation, gentrification, migration, digitisation and the housing bubble are transforming our communities faster than ever. The multiplying effect of those pressures is that many older people have deep roots – from Kilburn to Kentish Town – but few connections. Meanwhile, young professionals – often graduates from across the country and around the world – can have hundreds of connections in the social media age, but no roots in their communities. The separation of those parallel worlds wastes human potential, entrenches loneliness and isolation, perpetuates social division and is ultimately corrosive for our society. North London Cares seeks to address this modern blight of disconnection in our capital by harnessing the people and places around us for the benefit of all.

Our objectives are to:

- Reduce isolation and loneliness amongst older people and young professionals alike;

- Improve the connection, confidence, skills, resilience and power of all participants so neighbours can feel part of our changing city rather than left behind by it.

The Sentencing Bill White Paper from the Ministry of Justice commits the government to opening the first Secure School – a replacement for youth jail – in Kent in 2022, which Oasis Charitable Trust has been appointed to develop and run.

Rev. Steve Chalke, the Founder and Leader of Oasis said: “Our national systems – of welfare, health, education, housing, etc. – are failing the most vulnerable young people who, as a result, all too frequently find themselves caught in a persistent loop of exclusion that defines their future and inhibits their life chances. “Working in partnership with the government, NHS England and Improvement and a range of other partners across the charitable and public sector, it is our job to bring about much needed radical change.    

“With a vision focused on restoration rather than retribution, and creating a safe environment with a holistic approach to education, care and health, this unique project is at the very forefront of a long awaited revolution in youth justice. The Secure School places therapeutic, integrated and bespoke support for children, along with pathways for successful transition designed to enable them to make different choices and lead positive, productive lives at the very heart of the youth secure estate for the first time.”

£50,000 to deliver two six-month outreach projects and associated workshops over one year to 60 young people engaged in or at risk of engagement in knife related crime on and around the Ocean Estate in Tower Hamlets.

We work with 1,000s of amazing residents in Barking and Dagenham to build networks of friendship through the ‘every one every day’ initiative.

Together we aim to co-create the first large scale, fully inclusive, practical participatory ecosystem.

The Peabody Group is responsible for 66,000 homes in London and the South East. We have 17,500 care and support customers. Our mission is to help people make the most of their lives.

As we move to a knowledge-based economy, literacy is more than ever an essential skill for young people in our society. The COVID pandemic has exposed the great lack of understanding and application of health information that illiteracy in society has caused. Access to adult literacy resources on line & in person need to be readily available & encouraged otherwise our disadvantaged youth will be further marginalised & exposed to criminal gangs.

The Selby Trust was set up as a charity in 1992 by local people who recognised the need for a multi-purpose centre led by the community and third sector organisations. It was supported by the late Bernie Grant MP, who had a vision for a place in the community that people could afford and call their own. Selby registered as charity in May 1994 and Company Limited by guarantee in May 1993.

Since 1992, it has operated from the Selby Centre in Tottenham, in former school premises, which the Trust manages as a multi-purpose community and social enterprise centre, with a 25 year lease from LB Haringey. The site is 150,000 square feet, with offices, meeting rooms, training facilities, sports and events halls and a large car park.

Selby Centre, which is located in an area of high deprivation, brings together a rich mix of individuals and organisations, primarily from BME, refugee and other historically excluded communities in Tottenham, Haringey, north London and beyond.

Almost 80% of Selby Trust funding is self-generated.

We build communities where everyone lives a full life, regardless of the support they need. Our members are 6,000 Shared Lives carers, 150 Shared Lives schemes and a growing network of over 25 local HomeShare organisations. We are funded by grants, membership, strategic advice and supporters.

St Ethelburga’s is a maker of peace-makers. We inspire and equip people from all backgrounds to become peace-builders in their own communities and lives. St Ethelburga’s addresses three core needs of our times:

• climate breakdown

• refugee integration

• community polarisation.  

We believe climate breakdown is an existential threat and likely to become a key driver of conflict, migration and hardship.  All of our programmes speak directly to that need.

Debunking myths and stereotypes around crime, weapons, gangs, county lines and related issues, challenging the messages in social media and popular culture, de-glamourising the lifestyle and exposing the realities of negative choices such as carrying a weapon; Equipping young people with practical tools and strategies that they can use to build resilience to risks, such as negative peer pressure and grooming, giving them real knowledge and insights that will help them to make positive choices.

Encouraging children and young people to stay engaged with education and take part in positive activities. Equipping parents and professionals with the knowledge, understanding and tools to help safeguard children and young people from becoming involved in gangs and violence.

StopWatch is a coalition, which works to:

• Promote effective, accountable and fair policing

• Inform the public about the use of stop and search

• Develop and share research on stop and search and alternatives

• Organise awareness raising events and forums

• Provide legal support challenging stop and search

Since forming in 2010, StopWatch has led a wide-ranging campaign against the disproportionate use of stop and search, the increasing use of exceptional stop and search powers and the weakening of accountability mechanisms. This includes legal and policy analysis, media coverage and commentary, political advocacy, litigation, submissions to national and international organisations and community organising. The unique mix of academics, activists, young people and lawyers has proved effective at challenging the current use of the tactic and drawing attention to the realities for those on the receiving end of police powers.

In an increasingly divided world, God calls us to bring people and communities together and to see our diversity as our strength. We strive to build communities where people find healing, a sense of belonging across all generations and where everyone can fulfil their God-given potential.

This is an organisation which is all about partnership which directly addresses the challenges of youth violence.

“The back story to the founding of Streets of Growth was quite simply a response to growing number of young adults on our council estates disengaging current youth provisions and wider educational and economic opportunities. Instead, many were getting caught up in low-level anti-social behaviour and more formalised street gang drug dealing, violence and associated criminality. Being both local residents and professionals in this work ourselves, who had either grown up or were still living in these neighbourhoods, we wanted to build an intervention model that challenged and removed the unhealthy dependence upon Police, Prisons, and Youth Clubs being the answer to tackling disengaged young communities living harmful lifestyles.

In 2001, following intensive international research on a Sir Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship finding world class practitioners, who themselves were asking similar questions and building cutting edge approaches, we were inspired to build our own entrepreneurial intervention model here in the east end of London. Our core aim was to build a healthier bridge that interweaved organisation led interventions with community led interventions, with young adults at the centre of leading change in their lives, their streets, and their futures. Today, our charity has grown to become a multi award winning model of approach we now call the Appropriate Intervention Bridging Model ™.

Our journey has not been easy where we have all had to make life changing sacrifices and ask ourselves some very tough questions to shift our own thinking and habitual behaviours in order to stay at the top of our game in this work. But it is our relentless dedication and organisational and community culture, that we instil into every young adult we encounter to ensure they achieve their fullest potential in this world.

Despite space, funding, and finding the right calibre of person being an ever-imposing threat to our existence and growth, we have gone from starting out with a disused shop, to developing a semi derelict temporary use print factory that we converted into an 8000 sq ft intervention centre before it was recently torn down to make way for luxury apartment blocks, to transforming a temporary use office block next to the Canary Wharf financial district, to now currently operating from a converted disused nursery building. Such is our resilience that every move involved designing and converting dilapidated spaces with no grant build funding and using 95% reclaimed, repurposed and upcycled materials. We ensure that every space we adopt and adapt involve and offer our young client’s bespoke interventions to transform their socioeconomic situation, so they are internally and externally supported to live out of harm’s way as they learn to compete in the regeneration opportunities that previously passed them. Awarded £34,646 to outreach to 50 high-risk young people on three estates in Tower Hamlets and deliver coaching support, life skills workshops and anti-social behaviour awareness workshops.

In our diverse society, positive relations between people of different faiths, beliefs and cultures are essential.

The Faith & Belief Forum has worked tirelessly for over 20 years to build good relations between people of all faiths and beliefs, and to create a society where difference is celebrated.

We create spaces in schools, universities, workplaces and the wider community where people can engage with questions of belief and identity and meet people different from themselves. Enabling people to learn from each other in this way is often the most effective way to tackle ignorance and challenge stereotypes – and create understanding and trust between people. The Faith & Belief Forum’s inclusive approach welcomes everyone – whether you’re an Atheist, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jew, Muslim, Zoroastrian, or identify with any other belief. Our programmes reach over 16,000 people a year. They include teachers and students, artists and professionals, political leaders in Parliament and upcoming leaders at university.

The Mill is more than a community centre – it’s Walthamstow’s living room. A home from home for anyone to drop in, read the papers, view an art exhibition, browse the honesty library, join a group or activity (or start up their own one), use the playroom or rent out the space for a party or workshop.  Our spaces are very versatile and we’re always open for new ideas.

We do things slightly differently.  We don’t run services or decide what goes on here. We provide the space, the resources and support to help make things happen.  All our groups, events and activities are developed by local people who want to provide something for the benefit of the community.  We’re open to the public 6 days a week – so why not pop in and find out more.

The Monitoring Group was established in Southall (west London), in the early 1980’s, by community campaigners and lawyers who wished to challenge the growth of racism in the locality.

We have become a leading anti-racist charity that promotes civil rights.

Our national office is based in London.

Our aims are:

a.  To promote good race relations;

b.  To advance race relations by means of education and awareness raising; and

c.  To relieve the needs of those who are distressed or suffering violence or harassment.

In 1987, the Mudchute Park and Farm, in the middle of the Isle of Dogs, was threatened with closure due to loss of funding. Dr Michael Barraclough was asked to Chair a new Board of Trustees to save it. He has been involved ever since in its development, landscaping and with volunteers planting thousands of trees. Today it is a unique bio-diverse Nature Reserve and with 32 acres is the largest inner city farm in the country. It was visited by the Queen in her Silver Jubilee year. Thousands of local children visit its Nature Study Centre and Living Classroom, learn about farming, how to grow vegetables, take farm tours and riding lessons. It has a baby unit and nursery as well as an After School Club and regular help for disabled groups and young offenders. It attracts around 45,000 children each year and is now the largest Children’s Resource in Tower Hamlets.  During 2012 Barraclough organised the restoration of one of the Mudchute’s four gun sites that defended the docks during WW2, bringing in an original Ack Ack gun and restoring the bunkers. It is accompanied by a display of WW2 memorabilia, war time photos, and a specially made 16 minute film about the Mudchute’s role during the Blitz.

Our vision is to create better places through community business. We will use our endowment to strengthen community businesses across England.  This means providing money, advice and support to help local people come together to take control. At a time when many parts of the country face cuts, neglect and social problems, we want to make sure local areas survive and stay vibrant. We do so by being bold, collaborative, open and informed.

By the end of our ten years, we want community business to be recognised as a new economic model. Read more about our ambition for community business.

Our endowment came from the Big Lottery Fund in 2015 (now The National Lottery Community Fund).

Rathbone Youth Centre runs activities for young people aged 11-19, or up to 25 for young people with learning disabilities. The youth club, based at The Old Library in Knights Hill, is open three evenings term time on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 5-9pm. During half term and summer holidays, we run holiday activities and educational trips. All our youth programs are delivered by specialist and qualified youth workers with experience in working with young people with complex needs and challenging behaviour.

Social mobility in Britain is low. The educational opportunities and life chances of a child born today are strongly linked to their parents’ socio-economic background. This is the challenge we face. Since 1997 and under the leadership of our founder, Sir Peter Lampl, the Sutton Trust has worked to address this. We fight for social mobility from birth to the workplace so that every young person – no matter who their parents are, what school they go to, or where they live – has the chance to succeed in life.

Tower Hamlets Community volunteering Strategy and information portal.

The Ubele Initiative is an African Diaspora led intergenerational social enterprise founded in 2014. Our primary mission is to help build more sustainable communities across the UK. Ubele in Swahili means ‘The Future’. Ubele has been developed through bottom up, community-based approach. Although African Diaspora led, we have a culturally diverse team and support a wide range of communities, community-based organisations and groups.

Ubele supports a wide range of communities, community-based organisations and groups with their community assets (people and physical spaces), through social action, community enterprise development and next generation leadership initiatives.

We design and deliver local, regional, national projects and international programmes as well as being involved in London regional policy initiatives and campaigns.

We empower people to create, inspire and build new opportunities for each other. Working closely with voluntary sector partners and community groups to provide a wide range of activities, which target the most in need in our local community. Our mission has always been to empower local people, giving them the tools to work together to resolve issues of common concern and break down any barriers they are faced with. Our ultimate goal is helping them to make stronger communities.  Over the years we’ve worked in collaboration with local communities to address and respond to difficult issues that people face in their everyday lives.  Our services and programs reflect the spirit of this partnership, based on trust, determination and a desire to make people’s lives better. In an ever-changing world our users face challenging times. We see our role as being at the forefront of bringing people together to facilitate change. Recently won £8,923 to deliver a project with at-risk young people in Camden Highgate Ward to create a knife and gang crime awareness event for the whole community, reaching 144 people.

Vauxhall City Farm is one of the oldest and most central city farms in London, being located within earshot of Big Ben and in the shadow of MI6.  Despite this proximity to ‘wealth’, Lambeth is one of the most deprived boroughs in London and the farm is surrounded by high-rise blocks occupied by individuals and families, many of whom have low incomes and suffer poverty of opportunity.

Given the open access nature of the farm, it would be very easy to dismiss VCF as simply being a cute place to visit and ‘all about the animals’.  Behind the public face, the reality is that our animals, whilst much loved, are essentially a vehicle for education and change; the animals feature in many of our programmes and are key to helping our staff and volunteers engage with and deliver positive impact for both individual beneficiaries and groups from our wider community.

Information about community assistance, support, mentoring, befriending and volunteering in Lewisham.

Manufacture of weapon surrender bins, installation and management of emptying.

Cataloguing of contents / data reporting and destruction of knives

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Working with local and third sector organisations to bring improvements to communities, to engage and empower young people and to ensure communities work for them.  They have a team of young advisors across England.

citizenAID is a UK registered charity with a focused mission to prepare individuals, communities and organisations to help themselves and each other when there are multiple casualties, particularly from deliberate attacks.  

citizenAID recognises that this system is fully transferable to any situation where there are single or multiple casualties.

Many know what to do when someone collapses with a heart attack. But being able to act effectively after a deliberate attack requires different knowledge and skills.

citizenAID provides this information with our app and Pocket Guide along with first aid, bleed kits, tourniquet use  or our Tournikey and improvisation.

citizenAID helps the general public to stay safe and improvise effective treatment before emergency services are available to provide professional medical support.

citizenAID enables the public to save lives.

citizenAID is a simple system comprising of an award-winning free App, online familiarisation videos, a Pocket Guide, and educational material and training for both adults and children.

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imabi is a technology platform and app provider for personal safety, wellbeing and lifestyle management, giving users access to trusted information, guidance, reporting and support tools. We enable people and organisations to connect using responsible technology through our ground-breaking apps.

With a range of social issues affecting everyone, everywhere; imabi is on a mission to bring about change by empowering people to speak up, make informed choices and feel empowered in tackling root causes of harmful attitudes and behaviours. imabi is already in schools supporting young people by increasing the probability of them speaking up about their concerns and wellbeing and accessing help. imabi knows the value of being able to rely on trusted information when so much harmful and fake information is routinely published and has therefore created areas in the app whether students can access guidance, important information and receive real time messages.  imabi helping schools with their safeguarding responsibilities and supplies trend data so they better understand what is happening in their school communities.

The power of imabi comes from adopting a proactive and preventative approach in applying its technology. The innovative use of technology means we are focused on helping people to reduce the risk of something happening to them but also giving them access to help if something does. Its current 7 app features mean everything is conveniently in one place – support, reporting, guidance, survey tool, geo-location, a virtual noticeboard and messaging. Organisations can input their own content in the apps for their users to access whether that is campaigns, signposting to support and services, important information or guidance. Users can also access location services to create safe groups and stay connected when out and about. imabi is working with partners to make their technology accessible to everyone – building safer communities together and delivering real social value.
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UpReach helps disadvantaged students from across the UK realise their potential by investing in pioneering technology to facilitate, deliver and evaluate highly personalised programmes of support. Through successful partnerships with top employers and universities, we offer students access to a comprehensive range of opportunities and activities to broaden their horizons, understand career pathways and develop the skills, networks and experiences needed for professional success. We also collaborate closely with other charities in our sector to expand the support offered and maximise our joint impact.