Mission

We are committed to making lives better for people and to use our experiences to help others across the country. Over the next five years, we have committed to the following strategic aims:Raise aspirations for a better lifeReduce povertyExtend opportunities in Education and EmploymentBuild stronger communities

Category

Poverty Alleviation

Additional Information

We are an innovative London charity, running a wide range of community projects for over 16,000 people every year. We have over 30 years of experience working with local people to support children, young people, adults and families. Through our national work, we share lessons with government and community groups across the country to achieve social change. Last year we:• Ran youth clubs and children’s activities for almost 4,000 young people• Advised almost 10,000 people with benefits, housing and debt problems - at a time when funding for this work is shrinking• Supported 3,950 unemployed people - over a third found sustainable jobs, many more have gone onto further training and voluntary work.• Worked with 177 young people excluded from mainstream education, in our own Ofsted registered school, Education Links increasing the GCSE pass rate by 7%. • Supported over 200 vulnerable ten and eleven year olds make a successful transition to secondary school though our Opening Doors project And those are just the big numbers, scratching the surface. We haven’t mentioned our social enterprises, our groundbreaking Early Action Task Force, or our farm. Our real success comes from the way we work with individuals – success that’s measured as the individual and the organisation develop and grow, together.