Money Ready is a charity on a mission to create a financially fluent population, equipping people aged 4 to 40 to make informed choices and take control of their finances, from first payslips to pensions. It knows the journey is harder for care-experienced young people, who often face financial exclusion and a cliff-edge of support when they leave care. Its evidence-based programmes make a measurable difference: 94% of participants report improved financial knowledge, 89% feel more confident managing money and 87% intend to change how they manage their finances. Working with schools, youth organisations and workplaces across the UK, Money Ready turns money from a source of stress into a tool for independence.
Action Hubs
The Action Hubs are the organisations rebuilding the care system with us, on the ground, in communities across the UK. Each one brings something different: education, housing, employment, health, sport, the arts. Together they give care-experienced children and young people someone in their corner at every stage.
- Mentoring & Advocacy
The Young Lives Foundation
The Young Lives Foundation is an award-winning independent children’s charity based in Kent, established in 2007. It supports vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, including children in care, care leavers and young people at risk of exclusion, through advocacy, mentoring and befriending. Its independent advocates make sure children in care understand their rights and are heard in decisions about their placements, education and care planning, while trained volunteer mentors help build trust, confidence and resilience. Its Futures Care Leavers Programme supports the move into independent adulthood with one-to-one mentoring, employability and life-skills. Working across Kent and Medway, it plays a vital role for children in care and care leavers.
- Arts
JAM Performing Arts
Founded in 2000, JAM Performing Arts has built a stellar reputation for nurturing young people through dance and performance, supporting every student from first steps at age two to a professional career. Through expertly designed classes, dedicated teachers and a warm environment, students gain far more than technique: confidence, resilience and life skills. Known to students and families as the JAM Family, it knows every young person personally and tailors their progress to their own effort, growth and maturity. With a proven track record of students moving into performing arts careers and leading dance schools, JAM is a community where creativity flourishes and confidence grows.
- Employment & Skills, Sport & Activity
Bikeworks
Bikeworks is a community-grown social enterprise that uses the bicycle as a tool for good across London. Its services include cycle training for adults and in schools, with dedicated SEND provision, plus accredited and non-accredited learning as a City & Guilds centre. Each year, across seven inclusive cycling hubs, it delivers thousands of cycling experiences for people with disabilities and long-term health conditions, alongside bespoke sessions shaped around each person’s needs. Based in the Olympic Park in East London, Bikeworks turns cycling into a route to skills, health and independence.
- Sport & Activity
The Personal Best Foundation
The Personal Best Foundation is the official charity of England Athletics, changing the lives of children and young people through the power of athletics. Founded in 2022, it works with community partners across the UK to break down the barriers of poverty, inequality and social exclusion that keep young people out of sport. Its athletics-based programmes improve physical health, mental wellbeing, confidence and social connection, in safe and inspiring environments. The Foundation believes every child has a personal best and deserves the chance to reach it, whatever their background, and is proud to partner with Fatima’s UK Campaign as part of the Action Hubs.
- Mentoring & Advocacy
The Harold Wood Foundation
The Harold Wood Foundation is a grassroots charity creating opportunities that build wellbeing, confidence and community connection for local children and young people. A key focus is care-experienced young people, many of whom face instability, emotional difficulties and limited support networks. Through mentoring and coaching programmes, it gives young people access to positive role models and trusted support, helping them develop self-esteem, communication skills and confidence in their own decisions. Its community events bring people together in welcoming spaces, reducing loneliness and isolation, so young people feel heard, respected and connected to the place they live.
- Health & Wellbeing, Mentoring & Advocacy
Summit
Summit is one of Essex’s longest-standing mental health charities, founded in 1976 as Tendring Mental Health Support in Clacton-on-Sea. As advocacy became a profession through the 1980s and 1990s, Summit trained in legislation and human rights and played a key role in helping people leave long-stay hospitals and be heard in decisions about their care. Renamed SUMMIT in 2017, its mission is to advocate for empowerment and support independence. It restores control, confidence and self-belief, helping vulnerable people find their voice, stand up for their rights and shape their own futures through compassionate, face-to-face support and genuine partnership.
- Arts, Mentoring & Advocacy, Sport & Activity
ATF
Since 2012, ATF has worked with communities and young people at risk of exclusion, creating safe spaces, opportunity and wellbeing. Using sport, art, heritage and culture, it builds a sense of togetherness and has driven down anti-social behaviour in the areas it serves. Its place-based approach follows asset-based community development principles, running Discovery Days that put local people in the lead and reach the neighbourhoods and cohorts most often overlooked. Working alongside residents, schools, councils, the Probation Service and housing associations, ATF supports young people from age 5 to 24, and its work reclaiming spaces such as Northlands Park shows what communities can achieve when they lead.
- Health & Wellbeing, Sport & Activity
HeadGuard
HeadGuard is a UK Community Interest Company that uses boxing as a tool for empowerment, emotional regulation and personal development, working with people who have experienced adversity, trauma and disadvantage. Founded by former professional boxer Cathy Brown, it puts the person first. Its non-contact, trauma-aware sessions are not about fighting: they teach safe technique and controlled movement, creating a powerful outlet for stress and anxiety and building confidence, identity and practical coping skills. Delivered in the UK and internationally, including with young women and girls in safe houses, HeadGuard creates safe spaces where people can reconnect with themselves and feel more in control.
- Employment & Skills, Sport & Activity
Essex Cricket
Essex Cricket opens the doors of a professional sports club to care-experienced young people, with a mission to help every individual fly like an Eagle. It creates real-life experience and opportunities in a safe, supportive environment where young people can explore their own goals. That might mean an apprenticeship in the community team, out creating engaging experiences and building local cohesion, or an intern and work experience day at the ground, from matchday stewarding to joining the activation teams. Driven by the ground and the teams who play there, Essex Cricket acts as an inspirational hub for the whole region.
- Education, SEND
Thrive Education Partnership
Thrive Education Partnership is a growing multi-academy trust dedicated to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. Across seven special needs academies and two autism-specific provisions, it supports around 1,100 pupils aged 2 to 19, employing some 750 staff. Its evidence-based, trauma-informed approach reduces exclusions and improves wellbeing for pupils and staff alike. Thrive also strengthens the wider system, working with local authorities to develop SEND strategies and expand special school capacity, and offering bespoke professional development and school improvement support. Its philosophy is rooted in compassion and belonging, helping every learner feel valued and reach their potential.
- Education, Employment & Skills, SEND
Affinity 2020
Affinity 2020 is a Rotherham social enterprise working with care-experienced young people who have emotional and social additional needs. Founded by turn-around executive headteacher Charlotte Elliott, its trauma-informed, student-centred approach brings together educators, associates and employers to support a successful transition into adult and working life. Its work responds to stark realities: 52% of care leavers have a criminal conviction by 24, compared with 13% of their peers. At its heart is a specialist post-16 college for care-experienced young people with an EHCP, delivering a NOCN-accredited Preparing for Adulthood curriculum alongside creative programmes that build belonging and research that improves equality of opportunity.
- Health & Wellbeing, Housing
Settle
Settle is an award-winning charity supporting young people across London as they leave care and move into their first home. Focusing on that critical transition into independent living, it helps young people avoid eviction and prevent homelessness. Through weekly one-to-one coaching, it builds the practical skills and self-belief needed to manage money, sustain a tenancy and look after wellbeing, backed by wraparound support including small grants and fully funded therapy with a counsellor the young person chooses. Young people shape everything Settle does, sitting on every staff recruitment panel and its board of trustees, and leading its A Home of Our Own campaign for stable housing, enough money to live on, and love and care.
- Sport & Activity
StreetGames
StreetGames brings sport to young people’s doorsteps in low-income and under-served communities, where too many miss out. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience, it helps around 400,000 children and young people a year get active and, with it, safer, happier and healthier. It believes change is best delivered locally, so it backs a network of over 1,600 community partners, from sports clubs to housing associations, with insight, funding, training and resources. From youth groups to Downing Street, StreetGames also champions the voices of young people in under-served communities so their needs shape decisions.
- Education, Sport & Activity
Southend United Community Foundation
Southend United Community Foundation is the official charitable arm of Southend United FC, using the power of football to improve lives across Southend-on-Sea and Essex. Its programmes span inclusive sport, education, health and community cohesion, engaging people of every age and background, with targeted support for young people in care and care leavers. Alternative education pathways through BTECs, enrichment and vocational mentoring support progression and employment readiness, while health initiatives tackle inactivity and isolation. Working with schools, local authorities and public health services, the Foundation turns football passion into confidence, opportunity and belonging.
- Employment & Skills, Sport & Activity
Dallaglio RugbyWorks
Dallaglio RugbyWorks harnesses the power of rugby to support young people facing serious disadvantage. Founded by former England captain Lawrence Dallaglio, it was built to tackle social exclusion, unemployment and the absence of positive role models. It runs structured programmes in pupil referral units, alternative education settings and communities, reaching young people excluded from mainstream school or at risk of becoming NEET. Alongside rugby and mentoring, practical employability workshops on CVs, interviews and workplace expectations help young people move into education, training or work. By partnering with businesses and local authorities, it turns the values of rugby, teamwork, respect, discipline and resilience, into real opportunities.
- Education, Employment & Skills, Sport & Activity
SCL
SCL delivers education with the energy, discipline and creativity of elite sport. Founded in 1999, its Ofsted-regulated college combines academic study with enrichment in sport, business and the performing arts, giving second chances to some of the hardest-to-reach young people who are NEET. Its Skills Group division runs apprenticeships from Level 2 to Level 6, short courses and bootcamps that develop confident, capable professionals. SCL has shaped the futures of over 20,000 young people across the UK and grown talent inside major brands from Amazon and B&Q to BrewDog, using a Sports-Centred Learning approach that helps learners think like athletes and perform like high achievers.
- Education
Joseph Chamberlain College
Joseph Chamberlain College is an award-winning sixth form college in Birmingham and the only one in Birmingham and Solihull rated Outstanding by Ofsted, an achievement earned twice in six years. Its mission is an exceptional education for all. Around 2,500 school leavers join each year, choosing from an extensive suite of A-Levels and vocational courses, with clear pathways at every level from GCSEs to ESOL so students of all backgrounds and starting points can progress. Graded Outstanding in every category, the College combines high achievement and strong progression to higher education and employment with a warm, inclusive and diverse community.
- Education, Outdoor
Lambourne End
Lambourne End is a 54-acre outdoor learning centre in south-west Essex, established in 2004 and known as the “54-acre classroom”. Through a mix of adventure, environmental activities, a working farm and horticulture gardens, it helps people overcome obstacles and build confidence, self-esteem and resilience. Around 18,000 people visit each year, many of them young people, and an estimated 46% face disadvantage, disability or mental health challenges. Whether scaling a 45-foot climbing wall, riding the zip line or caring for animals on the farm, young people find a safe, welcoming space that raises aspirations and inspires them to reach their potential.
- Employment & Skills
Homewood Solutions
Homewood Solutions, in partnership with the Italian Chamber of Commerce, is helping Fatima’s UK Campaign launch a new Hospitality Hub in London. Together they open a clear pathway into hospitality employment for care-experienced adults, wrapping monitoring, training and direct employment around each person. The Italian Chamber connects young people to its members, a rich network of well-known London hospitality brands, through a guaranteed interview process, while Homewood, an established Central London training and labour provider, delivers bespoke training and mentoring. Both bring a track record of moving care-experienced adults into real, lasting hospitality careers.
- Education, Employment & Skills
Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation
The Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation transforms the lives of care-experienced children through access to independent and boarding school education, securing fully funded bursary places at key transition points and brokering in-year school places for local authorities. Its impact is proven: SpringBoarders from care backgrounds are four times more likely to achieve five good GCSEs, and nearly 90% progress to university. Beyond bursaries, its SpringForward programme trains mentors from the independent school sector to support care leavers through university applications, with over half progressing to higher education. The Foundation is also piloting new routes into employment and foster carer recruitment.
- Education, Financial Capability
The Share Foundation
The Share Foundation runs the Junior ISA and Child Trust Fund schemes for children in care across the whole UK, on behalf of the Department for Education. It opens accounts with an initial £200 government contribution, raises further voluntary contributions, and provides financial education so young people are ready to use the funds when their account matures at 18. Its incentivised programmes are built for care-experienced young people: Stepladder Plus, a six-step online course for 15 to 17 year olds, and Stepping Forward, an introduction to the performing arts. Rewards for completing each stage are paid straight into savings, so young people earn as they learn and leave care with more behind them.
- Housing
St Basils
St Basils is both a charity and a registered housing association, with over 50 years of providing accommodation and support to young people aged 16 to 25 who are homeless, vulnerable or at risk, including those who are care-experienced. Ofsted registered, it provides supported housing for 16 and 17 year old care leavers. St Basils refuses to let the stereotypes of homelessness define a young person, giving them the safety, stability and skills to picture a different future and reach it. Community-based in the West Midlands, it also works nationally to challenge the systemic barriers that exclude young people.
- Fostering & Family
Home for Good and Safe Families
Home for Good and Safe Families share one vision: a society where no family feels alone, and a home for every child who needs one. Working through local churches and volunteers, the Safe Families programme supports isolated and overwhelmed families to build stable homes and strong community connections, helping to prevent crisis before it starts. When children do come into care, Home for Good works to make sure there is a loving home ready for every child who needs one. Together they support families and influence wider change across the care system.
- Employment & Skills, Mentoring & Advocacy
Cumbria Youth Alliance
Cumbria Youth Alliance works with and for young people so they can reach their potential, with extra, consistent support for those with care experience. As both a delivery organisation and the county’s lead youth sector body, CYA reaches over 1,500 young people a year and supports more than 260 youth organisations. Its Leaving Care Transition Project and Care Leavers Hub, run with Cumberland Council, blend mentoring, independent living skills and practical support. Operating across one of England’s most rural counties, CYA has built a place-based model that overcomes isolation and transport barriers, offering a rural approach that complements the urban Action Hubs.
- Employment & Skills, Outdoor
Brathay
Based in the Lake District, Brathay supports over 7,000 young people a year, from primary age right through to their early careers. Pioneers of the outdoor learning movement and marking 80 years in 2026, they combine residential programmes in the national park with deeper youth work in the communities where young people live. Through hands-on learning, mentoring and coaching, plus leadership and employability training, Brathay builds the confidence, resilience and life skills young people need to grow, lead and shape their own futures.
- Health & Wellbeing
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust brings together some of the UK’s leading paediatric and women’s healthcare. Home to 63 specialised services across its hospitals, it treats around 650,000 people a year. Birmingham Children’s Hospital is the UK’s leading specialist paediatric centre, caring for children up to 16 and nationally designated for epilepsy surgery, major trauma, transplants and complex heart conditions. The Women’s Hospital delivers more than 8,200 babies a year alongside specialist gynaecological, maternity, neonatal and genetics care. For care-experienced children and young people, it means expert healthcare from a partner rooted in the community.
- Health & Wellbeing
Help Counselling
Help Counselling makes professional therapy available without the usual barriers: no waiting lists, no GP referral, no cap on sessions. For over 50 years this registered charity has been a sanctuary for adults facing anxiety, depression, grief and relationship challenges. Its approach suits care leavers especially well, offering consistent, long-term support that does not age out or disappear. Clients self-refer to open-ended weekly sessions with ethically minded, BACP-registered therapists, many multilingual and experienced with neurodivergence and gender and sexuality. Sessions run Monday to Saturday, online or across central and west London, with fees from £30 and a £20 student rate.
- Employment & Skills, Mentoring & Advocacy
The Care Leaver Covenant
The Care Leaver Covenant is a national programme that connects care leavers aged 16 to 25 with organisations pledging real, practical opportunities as they move into independent adulthood. Signatories from business, charities, education and the public sector commit to concrete offers: apprenticeships, work placements, mentoring, discounts and access to essential services, so care-experienced young people get the same chances as their peers in employment, education, housing and health. Since it launched, the Covenant has brought together hundreds of partner organisations across the UK and created thousands of opportunities, while building a shared responsibility for care leavers’ futures.
- Education, Mentoring & Advocacy
Tutor Trust
Tutor Trust is an award-winning charity built on a simple belief: quality tutoring should be available to every young person, not just those whose families can pay. Its Tutoring Plus programme offers tailored one-to-one English and maths tuition alongside mentoring for young people facing the steepest barriers, 30% of them children in care, with others in alternative provision or at risk of disengaging from school. Tutors act as mentors as well as teachers, working closely with virtual schools, social workers and carers. Through partnerships such as the King’s Trust Achieve Programme, it also opens routes to GCSE-equivalent qualifications and careers guidance.