Paul Hamlyn Foundation

The Children’s Law Centre (CLC) is a national charity based in Belfast which empowers children and young people. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth plans to enable CLC to uphold children and young people’s rights, ensuring they can participate, are valued, their rights are respected and guaranteed without discrimination, and every child can achieve their full potential.

CLC believes in a society where all children and young people can participate, are valued, their rights are respected and guaranteed without discrimination, and every child can achieve their full potential. Funding will support organisational development and growth plans.

Clan Childlaw is a law centre for children and young people in Scotland providing free legal representation outreach services, training and policy work. This grant will support core operational capacity and maximise the opportunity of recent investment by developing strategic and growth ambitions.

Cypher App, formerly Silent Secret, is a youth led social network app which allows young people between the ages of 11 and 19 to share their thoughts and feelings anonymously in a safe and non-judgemental space. This grant supports organisational and business development, including working in partnership with MIND and maximising additional funding streams.

Empire Fighting Chance is a Bristol-based charity that uses non-contact boxing and intensive individual support to inspire vulnerable young people to make positive changes in their lives and improve their mental health. This grant will fund improvements to their facilities to provide a therapy gym and on-site staff accommodation.

Empire Fighting Chance uses non-contact boxing and intensive individual support to inspire young people experiencing disadvantage to make positive changes in their lives and improve their mental health. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth plans, and to scale work harnessing the power of non-contact boxing to mentor, provide therapy and offer careers support for young people to change their lives.

Empire Fighting Chance’s vision is that all young people can harness their talents to flourish in a challenging world. Core funding will support organisational development and growth plans, and to scale work to help young people to realise their potential through a combination of non-contact boxing and intensive personal support.

Fight for Peace combines boxing and martial arts with education and personal development to realise the potential of young people in communities affected by crime, violence and social exclusion. Fight for Peace will use their ‘innovate and scale’ approach to deliver an intensive programme of training targeting young people in prisons and young offender institutions, in partnership with Second Chance.

Football Beyond Borders uses football to support marginalised young people to raise attainment and aspirations. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth plans, and to scale work providing long-term, intensive support, built around relationships and young people’s passions, so they thrive in the classroom and beyond.

Football Beyond Borders (FBB) supports young people who are passionate about football but disengaged in school, in order to help them finish school with the skills and grades to make a successful transition into adulthood. Funding will support FBB’s ambition to be the leading specialist provider for disengaged young people in the UK. In doing so, they hope to become an example for the charity sector in how to scale up a representative, relational and developmental working culture.