Chance UK
"Watch a video of Chance UK mentor Andrea with mentee, Brandon."
What we do
- "Chance UK is an early intervention charity that reduces crime and anti-social behaviour through mentoring. Our carefully screened volunteer mentors work with primary school children with behavioural difficulties to improve self-esteem and behaviour."
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.
