LATEST NEWS
Our 4-year bid to The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, our 'home' borough, was successful. We were awarded £72,000 over 4 years, subject to approval in Years 3 and 4, which will enable us to develop our anti crime, early intervention workshops into the borough's 9 secondary and 34 primary schools between 2011 and 2015. Our recent bid for £3,000 to The Goldsmiths' Company was successful. We are extremely grateful to The Goldsmiths' Company for this fourth grant over the past 7 years.
Our programme in young offender units - 'A Career In Crime?' - has reduced considerably in light of the fourth year of 3% Prison Service budget cuts, imposed by The Ministry of Justice. However, thanks to a generous grant from The Woodward Charitable Trust, bolstered by additional support from The Tudor Trust, we returned to HM YOI Feltham in February 17, 2011 for at least two years. We plan to emulate the clear success of our behaviour challenging, anti reoffending, personal development workshops with the prison's juvenile cohort. Our workshops at HM YOI Huntercombe with 15-18 year old male juveniles ended on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 due to its recategorisation to an adult male Category C facility from October 2010.
Our programme in Greater London schools - 'It's YOUR Choice!' - will have been seen by 100,000 young people in Greater London secondary schools sometime in early 2012. Anticipating the downturn in our work in young offender units, we have focused our efforts into further developing our anti crime module - 'It's YOUR Choice!', our girls-only intervention moduel - 'Girls Allowed' - and our STD/STI/relationships awareness module - 'Warts And All ...' - into even more Greater London schools.
Our fundraising fortunes have improved considerably in 2011/12 with new grants from The Woodward Charitable Trust, The Man Group plc Charitable Trust Community Programme, Russell Investments Charitable Fund, The Drapers' Company, The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham for the 12th consecutive year, taking their support to 15 years in total and, yet again, The Tudor Trust, our longest and second largest supporter ever. We have over 85% of our 2011-2012 budgetary needs already in place and, with our 'rolling' programme of continual fundraising, are confident that we shall achieve our funding targets in order that our workshops, both prison- and community-based, can be rolled out to London's young people.
'It's YOUR Choice!', our anti crime, early intervention programme in Greater London schools relaunched on Friday, September 30, 2011 with our first workshop of the new school 'year'. Our first of three mailshot flyers has generated bookings in the 2011-2012 school year to deliver our workshops to 7,000+ young people across Greater London, well on schedule to nreach our 2010/2011 figure of 15,473 attendees.
Our new girls-only module - 'Girls Allowed' - was launched in September 2011 following a successful pilot in a number of girls schools. Dealing with self respect and self esteem issues, we developed this module in response to numerous requests from mixed and all-girl schools where they felt that our core message was aimed specifically at boys and their behaviour.
We are actively involved in engaging with a number of similar sized and like minded charities with a view to forming consortia to tackle common themes where we can complement and add value to each other's services.
Please watch out for our newsletters and regular website updates, all of which will keep you informed of our continued progress. You can also check out where we are at any time via our online diary at http://j.mp/ianrossoutsidechance
Last Updated : November 2011