Connected Futures: place-based change

Peabody is one of the housing associations involved with Flourishing Futures. Its role supports the partnership to connect with young people and residents in Brent communities, and to link the work with place-based opportunities and wider support. 

Young Brent Foundation leads and coordinates Flourishing Futures, supporting the Youth Employment Ambassadors to shape the partnership’s work. Its role helps young people use their experiences and insights to influence decision-making, employer engagement, and local employment support in Brent.

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 is one of the housing associations involved with Flourishing Futures. Its role supports the partnership to connect with young people and residents in Brent communities, and to link the work with place-based opportunities and wider support. 

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the housing associations involved with Flourishing Futures. Its role supports the partnership to connect with young people and residents in Brent communities, and to link the work with place-based opportunities and wider support. 

Brent Council brings local authority leadership and helps connect Flourishing Futures with wider borough priorities services and employment support. Its role supports the partnership to link youth-led learning with local decision-making.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.