Delivery organisation hub

Fylde Coast Academy Trust leads the Compass Curriculum and brings a schools perspective, supporting the development of careers-focused activity for school-age young people at risk of becoming NEET.

Walsall FC Foundation brings the reach of Walsall Football Club’s charitable arm and experience of working with local communities. Its role helps the partnership engage young people and employers through trusted local relationships and community-based activity.

Walsall4All brings experience of inclusion, community cohesion and place-based work in Walsall. Its role supports the partnership to understand and address structural barriers affecting young people’s access to employment opportunities.

IQRA Supplementary School & Youth Provision brings links with young people and families in Walsall’s Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities. Its role helps the partnership connect with young people’s experiences and support activity that challenges barriers to employment.

Saalik Youth Project brings direct experience of working with young people in Sheffield. Its role supports youth engagement and helps young people share their experiences of apprenticeships, employment pathways and the barriers they face.

KCOM and Balfour Beatty bring employer perspectives to the partnership. Their role helps test employer training shaped by Recruitables and supports learning about how workplaces can recruit, support and retain care-experienced young people. 

Hull College brings an education perspective to the Hull partnership. Its role helps connect the work with the transition between education and employment for care-experienced young people. 

EMCCA is the lead partner, convening the regional system and connecting the work with wider ambitions for more inclusive employment opportunities across the East Midlands.

Daneshouse Community Partnership brings trusted community connections with South Asian communities in Burnley. Its role helps the partnership reach young people and families who may face barriers to support, and strengthen more inclusive access to education, employment or training opportunities.

Business in the Community leads the Workplace Encounters activity and brings employer engagement expertise, helping the partnership connect with employers. 

Blackpool Council leads the partnership’s post-16 Tiers of Support activity and hosts the Youth Advisor team. It brings local authority insight and influence, helping connect the partnership’s work with wider local priorities, services, and decision-making.

About

Generation UK is a nonprofit transforming education-to-employment pathways for individuals facing barriers to employment, placing 3000+ people into jobs since 2019. Generation provides access to life-changing careers for their learners and also works with employers to create social impact through entry-level hiring.

Working with Youth Futures

Generation UK is a delivery partner in our What Works programmes.

About

Cornwall Council’s Youth Engagement Project provides wrap-around support for young people 16-24 who are not in employment, education or training, working in partnership with five local organisations who have specialisms in supporting this cohort.

Interventions are bespoke to each individual and delivered via one-to-one face-to-face appointments or small/large group settings.

It focuses on:

1. Supporting every young person to develop confidence, motivation and independence and preparation for adulthood through employability skills, motivational and confidence building, and life skills opportunities, such as money management courses.
2. Identifying realistic opportunities and a pathway to reengagement with mainstream opportunities,
3. Sector specific pre-employment vocation training and Qualifications. Focussed on job sectors identified within Cornwall’s Skills Strategy.

The project has been running since January 2024, supporting in excess of 1600 young people to date. It aims to help re-engage 30% of all cohorts with employment, education and training opportunities.

Working with Youth Futures

Cornwall Council is a delivery partner in our What Works programmes.

About

St Giles Trust was established in 1962 to support individuals held back by poverty, unemployment, the criminal justice system, homelessness, exploitation, and abuse to build a positive future.

The St Giles Trust delivery model and approach has lived experience at the heart of the solution, by training people with experience of these challenges to help others through peer-led support and social action.

It’s Choices programme supports some of the most disadvantaged young people in London into employment.

Working with Youth Futures

We supported St Giles Trust to deliver Choices as part of our What Works programme testing promising youth employment interventions.

About

UK Youth is a leading charity with a vision that all young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives.

Working with Youth Futures

UK Youth is delivering the Summer Jobs Programme, which we are evaluating alongside YEF.

Hamara Healthy Living Centre leads the Leeds & Bradford partnership, coordinating community-based partners across both places. Its role connects youth activities, education, employment and training support with wider work to influence inclusive employment practice.

Good Deeds brings community-based experience in Leeds, supporting young people to build confidence, life skills and active involvement in their community. Its role helps connect the partnership with local young people and community-led routes into opportunity.

Highfield Community Association brings strong community links in Bradford, including work with children and young people. Its role helps connect the partnership with local families, activities and opportunities that support young people’s development.

Firvale Community Hub leads the Sheffield partnership, bringing trusted community relationships and local insight from the Fir Vale area. Its role supports young people and communities to shape learning about the barriers to apprenticeships and influence local approaches to employment support.

About

PLIAS Resettlement is a not for profit organisation that reduces re-offending by providing support, advice and guidance to people with criminal convictions. It focuses on the communities of North and West London.

Working with Youth Futures

PLIAS Resettlement has collaborated with us since 2021 and is currently a delivery partner in our What Works: testing youth employment interventions programme, where we are developing and evaluating INCLUDE.

About

DFN Project SEARCH is a one-year transition to work programme for young adults with a learning disability or autism spectrum conditions, or both.

Working with Youth Futures

The Bridging the Gap initiative will challenge the misconceptions, lack of knowledge, and understanding across society about what young adults with a learning disability can achieve when supported in the right way.

DFN is seeking to:

• understand the key barriers to employment – particularly within the private sector – and what needs to change to overcome them;
• explore what inclusive recruitment looks like and what support is needed to deliver it.

DFN will develop data and insight, sharing findings with our network to improve best practice and influence policy to remove the barriers to employment for these young people.

CXK leads the Hastings partnership, supporting young people to connect with employers and influence local opportunities. Its role helps make employer engagement more responsive to young people’s experiences and ambitions.

Calico Enterprise is the accountable body for the Burnley partnership, supporting coordination across the work and helping connect partners with local training, employability and community-based support.

The Warren leads the Hull partnership and is home to The Recruitables, a group of care-experienced young people shaping the work. The Recruitables are developing employer training based on their own experiences, helping employers understand the barriers care-experienced young people face and how workplaces can offer better support.

About

MEaP (Making Education a Priority) is a consortium of organistions focused on addressing barriers in education for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities across Greater Manchester.

It provides additional educational support and safe spaces for young people to learn, offering revision support and tutoring, career guidance, skills development and opportunities to celebrate their cultural heritage and community involvement. MEaP also offers programmes specifically designed for 18-24 year olds who are not in education, employment or training (NEET).

Working with Youth Futures

As part of our Evidence into Action programme, the charity plans to pilot an on and off-the-job training programme for 16-24 year olds, strengthening and developing employer partnerships across the digital, technology and creative industries. This will be a new aspect to its work, linking expertise in education to the world of employment.

About

Ultra Education believes every young person should have the chance to turn their passion into a future career. All children should do what they love, regardless of their socioeconomic background and have access to an entrepreneurial education. Talent is everywhere we look, however, opportunities are not.

Ultra Education’s mission is to empower Black and marginalised communities to create their own opportunities, opening doors to paid work placements and breaking the cycle of exclusion. Since 2015, Ultra Education has supported over 15,000 young people in developing entrepreneurial skills, launching over 1,000 youth-led businesses and providing access to work experience.

Working with Youth Futures

As part of our Evidence into Action programme, the charity will pilot an evidence-based off-the-job training programme to support young people into the fundraising sector. This will involve digital fundraising, bid writing, event fundraising, and community consultation, equipping young people with transferable entrepreneurial skills for self-employment—an area of growing interest among the young people they support.

About

Sports Key is a Black-led social enterprise delivering accessible sports and physical activity programmes to underserved communities in Birmingham. It also offers a 12 month youth enterprise programme for young people at risk of falling into the criminal justice system with the aim of increasing participants employment prospects through mentoring, skills development and qualifications, volunteering and employment opportunities. Many graduates of this programme have become employed members of staff at Sports Key, delivering the community sports sessions and supporting the administration and marketing of the organisation.

Working with Youth Futures

As part of our Evidence into Action programme, the charity aims to strengthen its employment pathways for young people in sectors beyond sport, establishing partnerships with employers in recruitment, corporate events, technology and engineering to develop an evidence-based off-the-job training programme alongside industry experts.

About

Rise Up supports marginalised young people aged 16-30 from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds across Greater Manchester. It offers 1-1 mentoring, skills development and interview preparation as well as training for qualifications.

It recruits employer hosts to provide 3-6-month paid on-the-job placements and mentoring across industries including Tech, Retail, Construction and the Housing sector. Employers have also helped co-design courses for young people to gain sector -specific skills in the digital industry.

Working with Youth Futures

As part of our Evidence into Action programme, the charity aims to strengthen its on- and off-the-job training offer and ensure a seamless link between the two. It intends to create up to four “pathways into” industry programs, each underpinned by work skills qualifications, industry experts and leading to paid on-the-job placements with employers. 

About

Punch Records began as a Black music record store in Birmingham, hosting DJ competitions and organising community events before moving into outreach and employability programmes for young people.

Now Punch works directly with young people (aged 16-29) with the aim of “transforming lives through music” and preparing young people for careers in the creative industries through skills development programmes including Gallery37 and Community Routes.

These are hands-on, artist-led programmes where young people can translate their creativity into employability; pitching ideas, planning approaches and writing applications.

Working with Youth Futures

As part of our Evidence into Action programme, Punch plans to strengthen its programmes and integrate youth co-creation and leadership deeper into existing provision.

About

Miss Macaroon supports 18 to 35 year olds from underserved backgrounds across Birmingham who face barriers to entering the workforce and have been unemployed for more than six months.

With a focus in the catering and retail industry, Miss Macaroon and corporate partners provide on-the-job training in their commercial bakery, shop, coffee shop and warehouse where young people could be offered a six-month fixed-term contract and develop practical skills in a real work environment. It also provide six weeks of Off-the-job training for young people to build technical expertise outside the workplace through structured workshops, enabling young people to complete sector-specific qualifications.

Working with Youth Futures

As part of our Evidence into Action programme, Miss Macaroon aims to refine its training offer based on evidence, and scale up impact by establishing corporate partnerships beyond the catering and retail industry to achieve the ambition to replicate its approach and support young people into construction, funeral and travel business opportunities.

About

IMO Charity exists to enable young people of South Asian heritage to improve their quality of life and be more resilient. Based in Blackburn with Darwen, IMO primarily reach communities experiencing serious challenges due to deep-rooted socioeconomic deprivation. Their employability programmes focus on cyber and tech careers, offering careers guidance, numeracy support, accredited courses; a Volunteer Academy for those aged 18-24 and employability skills support for those close to release from prison.

Working with Youth Futures

As part of our Evidence into Action programme, IMO plan to support young people into careers through their growing network of business patrons, integrating employer mentoring with master classes in industry-specific skills-development and career coaching. They aim to pilot an evidence-based, culturally competent “off job” training programme that builds vocational skills, primarily for the growing tech sector locally

IMO previously partnered with us on Connected Futures.

About

Fully Focused Productions is an independent production company established in 2010 to give young creatives from underrepresented backgrounds the opportunity to learn new skills, grow confidence, gain industry awareness and make content that feels truly representative. Founders of the Million Youth Media Training Academy and the Million Youth Media Youtube/social platforms (750k subscribers), it is supporting the next generation of filmmakers to produce award-winning, high-impact film, TV and online content that truly reflects the communities it serves.

Every commission enables young people to gain valuable experience, paid employment and transferable skills whilst simultaneously injecting every brief with an authentic youth voice. Its on and off- the-job training programme provides young people to explore key roles across every stage of production on their own projects and live commissions.

Working with Youth Futures

As part of our Evidence into Action programme, Future Focus intends to pilot two evidence-based vcational training programmes:

1. A three week training course in digital media content creation and management
2. Supporting young creatives to transition into high end TVFilm

About

Based in Yorkshire and the Humber, CatZero delivers personal development programmes, supporting young people towards education, employment, or training outcomes.

Working with Youth Futures

CatZero was awarded a Development Grant as part of our What Works Programme to deliver a Youth Development Programme to 50 young people aged 14-24 based in the Hull and Grimsby. The activity was evaluated by IFF Research.

Young Brent Foundation supports over 200 black and community-led organisations working with young people in Brent to develop capacity, collaboration and connection and effect positive change.

Young Brent Foundation is the lead partner for the Brent Connected Futures Partnership ‘Flourishing Futures’.

Right to Succeed is the lead partner, supporting collaboration, coordination, and learning across the Blackpool Connected Futures Partnership. 

North London Partnership Consortium Limited (NLPC Ltd), is a black-led, not-for-profit organisation committed to the regeneration and renewal of communities through accredited training, employability support and enterprise development programmes.

London Borough of Lewisham is the accountable body for the Lewisham partnership, helping connect the work with local services, strategy and decision-making. Its role supports agencies to work together around a shared approach to improving support for young people in Downham.

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Amber supports young adults aged 18-30 who are facing complex problems and experiencing homelessness towards employment, education and training through 24/7 supported accommodation across four residential centres in Devon, Kent, Surrey, and Wiltshire.

It provides a full-time employability, health and well-being programme, comprised of group-based activities and individual case management. It takes a staged approach to addressing residents’ immediate needs and building their capabilities, and offers opportunities to connect to local communities.

Working with Youth Futures

Amber is a delivery partner in our programme What Works: testing youth employment interventions.

WomenZone brings experience of supporting and empowering women and girls in Bradford. Its role helps the partnership understand and respond to the experiences of young women with Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage as they move towards employment.

Hollings Youth Association brings long-standing experience of working with young people in Manningham. Its role supports youth engagement, social development and community-based activity linked to employment opportunities.

Bangladeshi Youth Organisation brings experience of supporting children, young people, women, girls and local residents in Bradford. Its role helps the partnership address barriers linked to education, unemployment, training needs and community cohesion.

Cardigan Community Centre brings local community reach in North West Leeds. Its role helps connect the partnership with local people, facilities and services that can support young people’s access to opportunities.

Junior Sports Hub brings experience of supporting young people and the wider community in Leeds. Its role helps engage young people through trusted local relationships and community-based activity.

About

Switch Up uses mentoring techniques along with physical training to engage and  empower Nottingham’s young people to break the cycle of offending and reoffending.

Working with Youth Futures

As part of our What Works programme, Switch Up provided a range of mentoring, boxing and employability support over 12 weeks to 102 young people aged 14-24 in Nottinghamshire. The support was aimed at those who experienced a range barriers to employment and were NEET or at risk of becoming NEET.

About

Sport 4 Life is a West Midlands-based charity. It works with young people aged 11-29, supporting them into sustained education, employment and training through sports programmes, mentoring and structured group-based training activities.

Work with Youth Futures

Sport 4 Life received funding through our What Works programme to deliver support to 910 young people aged 14-24 who are NEET or at risk of NEET. The mentoring programme focused on progression into work and engage participats though sport, while improving life skills and employability skills.

About

Pentreath Ltd. is a Cornish charity that supports people living with mental health and emotional difficulties to achieve their vocational goals.

Working with Youth Futures

Through our What Works programme, Penreath delivered Re-Ignite to 150 young people aged 14-24 living in Cornwall  experiencing mental and emotional health difficulties that are barriers to progressing towards employment, education and living healthy, happy lives. Activities included: one-to-one IAG, practical support with CVs and applications, confidence building and work tasters.

About

PATRA Inc ACDA works with young people aged 16–24 from racially and socially disadvantaged groups, and their families and communities, to ensure they are able to progress in learning and work.

Working with Youth Futures

PATRA was funded to support 40 young people aged 16-24 in Nottingham who are NEET and predominately from African and Caribbean communities through intergenerational and culturally-specific wrap-around engagement. The 13-week, fulltime model of career planning and placements included mentoring and family engagement.

About

Newcastle United Foundation coaches, mentors, educates and provides opportunities to a variety of communities across the North East through football.

Working with Youth Futures

As part of the What Works programme, Newcastle United Foundation delivered a range of activities to support and engage young people aged 16-24. This included small group work, employability skills workshops, residentials and qualifications as well as mentoring.

About

EFL in the Community is a football charity which is the charitable arm of the English Football League (EFL). It runs a variety of community initiatives focusing on raising people’s aspirations and quality of life. Their work spans several areas, including education and employability.

Working with Youth Futures

Funding through our What Works programme enabled ‘Training Ground’ , a multi-region six month employability programme for 50 vulnerable NEET 18-24 year-olds delivered via Club Community Organisations.

About

Abbey Access Training Centre delivers programmes that develop voluntary, training and educational skills and community activities in the Abbey Ward and its surrounding areas.

Work with Youth Futures

Abbey Access delivered a 12-week course offering wrap-around support focussing on construction skills and training to 200 young people aged 16-24 in Lincoln who faced a range of barriers to employment. Barries included criminal convictions, mental health issues and lack of no Level 1 qualifications.

The funding was part of our What Works programme.

Harris Academy Tottenham is a co-educational, “all-through” free school in Tottenham Hale, London, serving children and young adults aged 4 to 19.

Catalyst Housing Group is a mission-driven ecosystem committed to driving impactful change across the housing landscape.

With a focus on addressing structural wealth, income, and opportunity gaps, Catalyst’s three pillars prioritise transparency, efficiency, and impact.

Catalyst Housing Group leverages its asset-management platform to provide differentiated multifamily operational capabilities, while its nonprofit arm cultivates innovative financing structures that support affordable, inclusive, and equitable housing production.

Hyde Housing is dedicated to addressing the pressing need for affordable housing by spearheading initiatives like the construction of 135 new homes in Sittingbourne.

By focusing on delivering much-needed affordable housing in desirable locations, Hyde Housing helps fulfil housing needs of the community.

Hyde Housing is committed to supporting individuals who may be facing challenges in maintaining their homes, offering essential support to ensure that customers thrive in their living spaces, especially during challenging times. Through these efforts, it steadfast in its mission to positively impact the lives of individuals and communities by providing access to secure and affordable housing while prioritising customer support and well-being.

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) is dedicated to ensuring that everyone has access to a quality home and the opportunity to live well. From providing housing solutions to offering support and advice, MTVH is committed to creating thriving communities and fostering a sense of belonging.

With a focus on transparency and accountability, it prioritises customer feedback and engagement through initiatives like the Customer Council and Regional Panels. MTVH’s belief in the importance of home as a foundation for well-being drives their mission to provide secure, affordable housing options and comprehensive support services to enhance the lives of individuals and families across the region.

Brent Council is a local authority committed to serving the diverse and vibrant community of Brent.

Their comprehensive range of services covers vital areas such as adult social care, benefits advice, waste management, and citizenship services.

Dedicated to supporting families and young people through education and social programmes, they ensure a nurturing environment for all residents. With a focus on sustainable living and environmental issues, they strive to create a cleaner, greener Brent for future generations.

Brent Council are helping to improve the quality of life for all residents, and promote healthy living and leisure activities across parks and facilities. Brent Council are dedicated to building strong, resilient communities through innovative services and responsive governance.

BFCCT leads the pre-16 Tiers of Support activity and working with Electively Home Educated young people. The Trust helps the partnership engage young people and families through trusted local relationships and activities. 

Haringey Council serves as the governing body for the London Borough of Haringey.

Mind in Haringey is an independent local mental health charity affiliated with the national Mind federation. It provides information, advice, and support to residents affected by mental health problems.

Phoenix Housing brings a place-based housing and community perspective through its connection to the Downham estate. Its role helps connect the work with local residents, community spaces and the conditions that shape young people’s access to support.

Circle Collective brings experience of supporting young people towards employment. Its role helps connect the youth-designed space with practical employment support and opportunities for young people.

Hull City Council supports the partnership by connecting the work with local authority services for care-experienced young people, including support linked to housing, care leaving and employment. Its role helps align the partnership’s learning with the local systems that affect care-experienced young people.

Derby City Council, Derbyshire County Council, Nottingham City Council, and Nottinghamshire County Councils are upper tier local authorities in the East Midlands region bring a local authority perspective, connecting youth-led interventions with local SEND priorities, services and opportunities.

DEBP brings direct experience of working with young people through careers and employability activity. Its role supports youth-led approaches that help young people build confidence, shape solutions, and move towards employment.

University of Central Lancashire supports the partnership’s research, learning and evidence work. Its role helps partners understand the barriers young people face, capture learning from the programme and use evidence to inform local change.

Participation Works North West works directly with young people and communities in East Lancashire. Its role supports youth-led activity, helping young people shape local priorities and influence how education, employment and community support responds to their needs.

Aaina Community Hub leads the Walsall partnership, bringing community insight and trusted relationships with young people and families. Its role supports direct engagement between young people and employers, helping young people access opportunities and influence employer thinking and practice.

About

Football Beyond Borders works with young people from areas of socio-economic disadvantage who are passionate about football but disengaged at school, to help them finish school with the skills and grades to make a successful transition into adulthood.

It’s standard programme offers a balanced schedule of weekly two-hour sessions divided between classroom-based learning and football activities, combined with therapeutic interventions, in-school pastoral care, and regular reward excursions during half-term breaks.

Football Beyond Borders’ practitioners are trained to become relatable, consistent and trusted adults in the lives of young people.

Working with Youth Futures

Football Beyond Borders has an excellent record of developing trusted relationships with young people in schools from areas of socio-economic disadvantage and experience in using therapeutic mentoring interventions.

This is why it is a delivery partner for the Building Futures programme, providing personalised support to up to 500 young people aged 12 to 15 over a whole academic year during the initial programme phase. 

About DurhamWorks

DurhamWorks is a programme designed for individuals aged 16 to 24 living in County Durham who are not already engaged in education, employment, or training. The programme is delivered by a team of dedicated professionals who offer career information, advice, and guidance to support young people in achieving their ambitions and potential.

What they are involved with?

We are partnering with Durham County Council to boost youth employment via its programme partner DurhamWorks.

About

Drive Forward Foundation supports care-experienced young adults through a package of individualised support designed to help develop the skills and networks they need to find fulfilling employment.

It offers a mix of tailored one-to-one support, intensive employability skills training, in-work mentoring, and opportunities provided through working in partnership with corporate partners, prospective employers and local authorities.

Working with Youth Futures

Drive Forward is a delivery partner in our What Works programme.

About Cumbria Youth Alliance

Cumbria Youth Alliance provides infrastructure support for organisations working with children, young people and families. They provide direct support in a variety of settings, schools, alternative provision, youth and community settings.

What they are involved with?

The funding they have received will enable Cumbria Youth Alliance to support 150 young people to help them work towards achieving their career aspirations through a programme of employability support activities, including individual tailored plans. Further, access to specialist support around mental health, drug and alcohol addiction, increasing soft skills and vocational training will form part of the overall delivery package.

About

1625 Independent People supports young people aged 16-25 who are at risk of becoming homeless or are already homeless through a range of specialist projects and services.

What they are involved with?

1625 Independent People are part of our What Works programme. The have been awarded a grant to supports 156 young people aged 16-24 who are care leavers or homeless/at risk of homelessness. The young people receive 1-2-1 support from ‘Coaches’. The frequency and type of support varies, but is based on a youth version of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, called DNA-V.

About 15billionebp

15billionep is a charity committed to ‘transforming young futures’ through promoting social mobility and raising aspirations among young people. They work closely with employers, local authorities, European agencies and education institutes to understand the labour market and prepare young people for today’s workplace, boosting their job prospects and the calibre of candidates available to potential employers.

What they are involved with?

Using their grant funding, 15billionebp provided a range of support to 90 young people at local secondary schools to reduce the number of school exclusions. Each school within the London Borough of Newham identified a cohort of young people using the Risk of NEET Indicator (RONI) system and school knowledge of the individuals. The project was delivered to young people from BAME/socio-economically disadvantaged communities who enrolled on the project for two years.