Our international partners

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YouTube logo with the tagline "See the World Differently"

Enjuba is an education social enterprise improving literacy and executive function for Ugandan children through spelling bees, publishing locally relevant children's books and early childhood programs.

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The Kidog logo in light blue with stylized, playful font.

Kidogo is a social enterprise that improves access to quality, affordable Early Childhood Care & Education in East Africa's low income communities. Kidogo uses an innovative social franchising approach to identify, train and support female entrepreneurs (Mamapreneurs) to start or grow childcare micro-businesses.

A woman wearing a colorful headscarf points to a large hand-drawn map on a yellow poster board attached to a concrete wall, while several people, including women and children, watch attentively. The map contains sketches of buildings, roads, and other structures.
Logo for Spark Micogrants featuring a yellow spoon combined with a circular shape and the words 'Spark Microgrants' in bold yellow text.

Decades of prescriptive aid programs have sidelined communities facing poverty from the very programs meant to uplift them. Villages are littered with empty school buildings and broken water taps because they were built without community buy-in. Spark MicroGrants was founded in 2010 to address this problem. Spark has designed a novel approach to empower communities facing poverty to design and drive their own economic and civic development.

Our domestic partners

A group at a community event with a man and a young girl standing in front, speaking or performing. The event has blue and gold balloons, and banners with Chance UK branding. Audience members are seated, including a person dressed as a colonial figure with a tricorn hat and a chain of office.
Logo for Chance UK featuring an orange abstract human figure jumping, with the words 'chance uk' in blue underneath.

Growing up has always been hard, but today’s children are being asked to deal with so much more. Chance UK works to support children at the earliest stage of need, to provide 1:1 mentoring and support before a difficulty becomes a crisis. We help children aged 5-14, and their families, to develop skills to help them thrive in the changing and complex world we have.

Two young men seated at a table looking at a tablet, with one person using the tablet and the other person looking at a laptop. They are indoors with framed pictures on the wall behind them.
Graphic with the words "Literacy Pirates" in large blue letters, featuring a parrot perched on the letter 'Y,' a skull on the letter 'P,' and a pirate hook integrated into the letter 'Y'.

Literacy Pirates’ vision is for every child to have the literacy skills, confidence and perseverance to succeed at school and beyond. We provide free, after-school programmes that support children who are falling behind in class and have fewer opportunities than their peers. Our programmes serve children across the UK, via an in person programme in Hackney and an online programme that is growing term-on-term.

A woman reading a children's book to a young girl in a playroom with toys and colorful foam mats.
Design featuring a pink tag with the text 'Little Village' in dark blue font, with supportive words 'In support of' at the top and 'Baby things, big impact.' at the bottom.

Little Village makes a big difference to families with babies and young children living in poverty across London. Via our network of baby banks we pass on loved goods from one family to another – clothes, toys and equipment – so that many more babies and young children have the essential things they need to thrive. 

Our community partners

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BelEve is a UK-based charity empowering girls and young women to believe in themselves and lead with confidence. Through leadership programmes, mentorship, and skills-building workshops, BelEve helps young women aged 8-22, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds unlock their potential, find their voice, and thrive in education, careers, and life. Their work breaks down barriers and builds up the next generation of female leaders.

Three young girls sitting behind yellow boxes labeled 'Children's Book Project' at a library or bookstore, with colorful banners and bookshelves in the background.
Colorful logo for Children's Book Project with purple, green, and pink text and a cartoon blue monster with green eyes and sharp teeth.

Children's book project is a lean, grassroots, volunteer-powered charity that understands the enormous power that reading has in shaping children’s lives. They have the ambition to eradicate book poverty and believe that, regardless of their circumstances, every child deserves access to inspiring reading material, expanding their perspective on the world and helping them to fulfil their potential.

A person in a beige sweater holding an elderly woman's hand, who is sitting down and holding a yellow and green ball.
Black and white drawing of a castle tower with battlements and two arched windows.

The Fawsett Trust is a small charitable trust of many years standing that distributes vouchers to elderly, long term residents of Chalfont St Giles in December each year. Although the scale of the Fawsett Trust is small, the vouchers make a considerable difference to the recipients and are very gratefully received. In these modern times it is, perhaps, sad that there are folk in the village to whom a relatively small amount can make a real difference.

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Text reading 'First Story' in stylized font on a plain white background.

First Story is England’s creative writing charity for young people. They enrich the lives of students in low-income communities by providing quality extracurricular creative activities and cultural experiences that foster creativity, confidence, ability and talent. They believe every young person deserves to reap the benefits of a rich creative education and their vision is a society that encourages and supports young people from all backgrounds to practice creative writing for pleasure, self-expression and agency.

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Logo for The Primary Shakespeare Company with colorful interconnected shapes and text.

The Primary Shakespeare Company (PSC), founded in 2009 and based in London, places professional theatre practitioners into primary and special schools to explore Shakespeare’s plays across the curriculum—boosting literacy, confidence, teamwork, and attainment . Each term, schools collaboratively rehearse and perform one act of a chosen play at a public festival, with practitioners guiding teachers in drama-based pedagogy. PSC also offers digital cross‑curricular resources (covering literacy, maths, science, art and music), bespoke multi‑sensory projects for special schools, and teacher training sessions. This immersive “stealth writing” model supports academic progress while fostering creativity and cultural engagement.

A garden with a colorful 'WELCOME' sign, various plants in pots, a wooden bench, and buntings hanging on a fence. Gravel pathway and trees in the background.
Word cloud with the words 'Sista', 'Fight Poverty Love Community' in blue text.

Sufra is a charity in North West London that prevents hunger, fights poverty and builds community. With the help of their volunteers and partners, they coordinate a network of food banks, kitchens, a community shop and café. These act as a gateway for their guests to access more holistic support – including welfare advice, asylum support and an award-winning community garden. Sufra works with their guests to find solutions to their challenges together, whilst campaigning against the causes of hunger and poverty.

A young girl wearing a red sweater and a headband is running outdoors on a grassy field while holding papers in her right hand and raising her left arm.
Black logo with a leaf graphic on the left and the text 'Woodrow Outdoor Learning & Leisure'

Woodrow is a happy, creative organisation transforming young lives by sparking adventure, imagination, curiosity and lifelong appreciation for nature. Young people need opportunities beyond school to grow, have fun and to become positive changemakers in their communities. Welcoming over 8000 school children and young people annually from across Buckinghamshire and bordering counties on day and residential visits at our 16th Century Manor House estate, plus more than 3000 individuals from our local community who regularly use our leisure facilities including our swimming pool, sports hall, Astro - Pitch and off-road cycle skills track.