Chance UK

Hear from one of our children and his mentor

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.