Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Circles South West works with local communities to prevent sexual abuse by providing support and accountability in the South West. This grant will enable the organisation to expand services across the region, develop a trading arm and provide training and consultancy to other organisations.

Free Radical is a youth-led company in Birmingham that supports young people to develop skills, confidence and networks through creative activities and events. This grant will support the senior team to ensure that governance and infrastructure keeps up with increased levels of delivery during a period of significant organisational growth.

Future Men is a London-based charity that supports boys and young men who are at risk of exclusion or in the criminal justice system, to becoming dynamic and healthy future men. Through this grant, Future Men aims to develop the organisation’s partnership model, profile and income diversification.

The Y Leicester supports 16-25-year olds who are homeless and provides safe supported accommodation, education, mentoring and cultural activities in Leicester and across Leicestershire. This grant will support the organisation to work with former and current YMCA residents with experience of complex needs to help shape the design and delivery of services.

Youth Access is the membership organisation for a national network of Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services (YIACS). They champion young people’s right to access local, high quality, evidence-informed advice, counselling and support services. Follow-on funding will support Youth Access to develop the reach, quality and impact of the organisation’s participation practice and rights-based youth-led change work.

1625 Independent People (1625IP) provides support for young people who are experiencing homeless, leaving care, or at risk of homelessness. Their offer includes supported accommodation, learning and employment services, and preventative programmes. This grant supports the establishment of a permanent training programme to share 1625IP’s learning around psychologically informed approaches. The programme will include the co-delivery of training and peer support and help provide a sustainable income to support 1625IP’s participation work.

1625 Independent People provides support for young people who are experiencing homeless, leaving care or at risk of homelessness. This grant will help four Local Authorities in the South West to embed Psychologically Informed Environments within their youth and social care teams.

ABOB provides a unique rites-of-passage mentoring programme for young men aged 18-25 who have experience of the criminal justice system. Through this grant ABOB aims to set-up eight new franchises and develop volunteer communities to work with over 840 young men over the next two years.

Abianda is a social enterprise that works with young women affected by gangs, and provides training for the professionals who work with them. This grant will support Abianda to grow their commercial work and provide paid employment opportunities for former service users.

Based in Islington, Abianda works with gang-affected young women and the professionals who support them. This grant will fund a Training and Participation Officer to grow the organisation’s income generating training arm. This would allow the Director to focus on scaling delivery and developing strategic partnerships.