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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
4-22 Foundation
4-22 Foundation backs children and young people at every stage from age 4 to 22, without a break. Founded in 2019 in Tottenham, it delivers tutoring, a long-term STEM programme, career workshops, work experience, mental health support and employability coaching. Its work for over-18s centres on LGBTQ+ care leavers, and in 2024 it created the […]
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 […]
Every Child Needs a Mentor (ECNM)
Every Child Needs a Mentor is a specialist child and human development organisation dedicated to helping people become who they are capable of becoming. Established in 2013 and building on practice that began in 2009, it works across education, social care, youth justice and the wider community, partnering with local authorities, schools, charities and families […]
Survivors Of aBuse (SoB)
Survivors Of aBuse is a survivor-led charity supporting adults who have experienced adverse childhood experiences, including abuse and neglect, helping them move from surviving towards greater safety, confidence, wellbeing and choice. Founded by survivor, author and campaigner Chris Tuck, it combines lived experience with professional knowledge, offering practical tools, education, peer support and connection. Its […]