We Rise is an award winning Brixton based community business with a mission to empower disadvantaged young people to create successful futures. The organisation develops confidence, connections and skills for work through innovative real work experience projects and a range of school, community and employer programmes.

The Catalyst Collective believes that mentoring can be a powerful intervention in the lives of young women. We recruit, train, match and support young professional Black women with Black teenagers for year-long mentoring relationships. The organisation is committed to facilitating meaningful mentoring relationships between young Black women, and mentors they can identify with to support them in achieving their goals.

The Big Talk provides a platform that brings together urban youth culture to discuss youth development, impact, and provides empowerment. Over the years, Ros Griffiths (Founder, Big Talk), has successfully organised events, throughout London, which allow young people aged 16 to 34 years old to debate important issues such as; policing, jobs, housing and enterprise etc., on their terms, in their space.

The Safety Box was born out of the great need to proactively address the growing concerns of youth violence, low self-esteem, knife crime, bullying, CSE (Child Sexual Exploitation), school exclusions, gangs, drugs, exploitation and underachievement of young people. Their mission is to awaken the potential of youth, so that they have a better future and above all keep them safe, delivering a range of accredited programs to not only those in prison, youth at risk, and young people; but also to their parents, caregivers and professionals working with youth at risk.

The Big Local SW11, works to address loneliness, isolation and mental health (particularly Anxiety and Depression) using a Community Development approach, enabling others and working in partnership. Their aim is to build a stronger, more resilient community sector by removing barriers that prevent people from realising their potential as residents, workers and volunteers.

Life Force Hub’s mission is to support those in the Borough of Wandsworth who are looking to start or grow a business. Helping with the entrepreneurial thinking to build better foundations. The organisation offers tailored training courses, matching them with the right business mentor and helping to raise the capital investments they require. Life Force Hub has an underpinning goal of providing opportunities to those who are under represented in the community and do not have access to the tools required to achieve long-term financial independence.

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is a global organisation working for the practical realisation of human rights through research, advocacy, capacity building and mobilisation. Locally, the organisation links with the Commonwealth Secretariat and other institutions based in London advocating for human rights promotion and protection within the Commonwealth. In addition, they work closely with our Commonwealth 8.7 Network members focusing on eradicating modern slavery who are based locally. Our London office is small, with 6 in our team plus 4 interns, looking to expand and improve systems and processes.

Being incredibly disturbed by the silence of the Indian diaspora in UK to the increasing number of gang rapes and the sheer brutality of them, gave birth to NaariSamatā, a charity working on rape prevention by teaching the youth about gender equality and respect for women.

Chair of TrusteesHome-Start Lambeth’s aim is to prevent the challenges of poverty, neglect and isolation from compromising children’s ability to thrive, through matching volunteers with vulnerable families with young children in order to provide support through weekly visits and calls. All volunteers are carefully recruited, selected and trained to support families with a range of

Based in South London, Young Mums Support Network works with young mothers who are facing challenges with parenting. The organisation works to reduce isolation in parenthood, helps mothers to manage their homes, and offers cooking courses, sewing and gardening as well as back to work courses.

Healthy Living Platform develops community programmes and activities that empower local people and are self-sustaining. They offer activities which benefit the health and wellbeing of the whole community and help improve the environment we live in, running food projects, vegetable bag schemes, food parcels, food growing/gardening, walks, Yoga, Zumba etc.

Citizens Advice Wandsworth provide advice, information and support on a range of social welfare issues to around 13,000 Londoners a year. They’re an independent charity that’s part of the national Citizens Advice network and work in partnership with five other offices in South West London to deliver a shared telephone advice service which covers a population of 1.5 million people. Their funded projects deliver a range of specialist and in-depth support targeted at people most in need.

Junction Elite believe in developing youths as footballers, and as people, giving them all skills needed as future young adults. The positive values they look to instil such as confidence, discipline, communication etc can help prepare them for the working world, or perhaps even a career in football, as well as having the tools to maintain a healthy active lifestyle. As well as this, Junction Elite work in the prevention of knife crime by raising awareness, and providing as many productive activities to shelter youths from that lifestyle as we can.

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative are a global organisation working for the practical realisation of human rights through research, advocacy, capacity building and mobilisation. Locally, the organisation links with the Commonwealth Secretariat and other institutions based in London advocating for human rights promotion and protection within the Commonwealth.

Thrive CIC is the social enterprise for gender equality. One pillar of Thrive’s work is with corporate businesses helping them to achieve gender equality amongst their people. To achieve this, we write inclusive evidence-led corporate policies and run educational sessions internally where we bring in frontline expertise on the issues being tackled.

Eat Club is a London-based charity that teaches young people fundamental cooking skills enabling them to develop healthy lifestyles and address issues around food poverty and poor nutrition.

We Rise is an award-winning Brixton based community business with a mission to empower young people to create successful futures. They deliver project-based work experience where young people work in teams to deliver a brief for a client over 5-7 days. We Rise also deliver longer term programmes in school, a programme of careers events (currently on hold due to Covid) and a mentoring programme.

Social Media PlanningBegin2Sports Group specialises in sports coaching for young people and adults, providing physical activity, mental wellness, health and well-being and mentoring designed to develop and maximise participants full potential, confidence and self-esteem. Begin2Sports Group also sponsors talented children to participate in activities, life skills, and mentoring programme.  Total length of project: 16-20 hours

Clothing Collective was set up in order to help those facing financial hardship to clothe themselves. By providing redeemable vouchers which can be exchanged in our partner charity shops for basic clothing, the organisation helps those in need find clothes they are otherwise unable to access with dignity.

Somers Town Space is a social enterprise based in Camden with a mission: to create an innovative History Space in an ideas of social reform and justice took root, to make a positive difference to people’s lives in a deprived area facing huge development. This Community interest Company serves to commemorate, educate and preserve a unique history of radical thinkers, social reformers and romantics, as well as honour a working class community with access to their own heritage.