Mission Statement
- Chance UK seeks to provide an early and transforming intervention
in the lives of vulnerable children, so that together with their families
they may begin to build a brighter future.
- Chance UK provides specific and targeted solution focused
mentoring for children aged 5-11 years, based on individual needs. Our
programmes are delivered by carefully screened and trained volunteers,
who are closely supervised and supported.
Objectives
- Providing increased stability and consistency in the life
of a child.
- Reducing the isolation vulnerable children and their families
may experience.
- Supporting children to find the motivation, insight and life
skills to move forward.
- Diverting a child's disruptive/challenging behaviour into
projects which encourage a sense of personal achievement and possibility.
- Supporting a child's learning by encouraging a sense of discovery
and worth.
Values and principles
- We work within clear and appropriate child protection guidelines
and practices.
- We work to build and strengthen supportive partnerships with
individuals and agencies involved in the children's lives.
- We provide flexible, individually tailored programmes of early
intervention, aimed to directly address the difficulties the child is
experiencing.
- We encourage full participation from identified at-risk children
and their parent(s) or carer(s) in our programmes.
- We create the resources needed to provide successful and developing
programmes
- We identify and draw on a pool of safe, motivated, skilled,
and compassionate volunteers.
- We evaluate our programmes and their effects and make changes
where appropriate.
We promote
equality of opportunity and have
non-discriminatory
policies and practices.
Trustees:
Dr Paul Vaight (Chairman)
Geoff Broomhead
Lady Sarah Simon of Highbury
Mr Fergus Munro
Mr Ian Norman Bruce
Principal Education Welfare Officer in Islington
Ms Annette O'Gorman
Ms Nicola Baboneau
Head of Schools Plus - The Learning Trust
Ms Lynne Burdon
Advisory Council:
John Frost
Ms Yvonne Millar
Head of Services - Community Child Psychology Service
Mr Barrie O'Shea
Headteacher of Duncombe Primary School
Richard Woolford
Ms Jane Fletcher
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