This International Day of Charity we celebrated the collaboration enabled by our fantastic partnership with CIBC!
News article from September 26, 2022
This year we were selected as one of CIBC’s charity partners, alongside two amazing charities, Skyway and Lennox Children’s Cancer Fund. We know that by working in partnership with other organisations we can maximise our impact for the children and families we support, learning from one another and sharing our skills, knowledge and experiences.
This partnership would not be possible without the incredible support of CIBC, who have brought our charities together and whose invaluable support enables us to reach more children and families.
At School-Home Support…
Our practitioners work in school settings to support children to be in school, ready to learn. We work with the whole family to tackle barriers to education, such as poverty, domestic violence and mental ill health, to ensure children are accessing the education they deserve. The need for our services has never been greater. In the last academic year we have worked with 667 young people who were persistently absent, an increase of 94% on the year before. More children than ever are missing weeks, months and even years of their education, severely affecting their future life chances.
Over the last academic year we have also seen an 88% increase in our interactions with children and families, from 66,404 in 2020-2021, to 125,012 in 2021-2022. These staggering figures show that the pandemic and cost of living crisis have heightened the challenges facing the children and families we are working to support, and highlights the essential need, now more than ever, for collaboration and community.
At SkyWay…
Formed in 2001 as a reaction to the lack of youth services that were available at the time in South Hackney, SkyWay gives young people in some of London’s most disadvantaged communities the skills and confidence to take ownership of their future, while working with and strengthening the communities they are part of. They work with approximately 1,500 people per year, with about 500 being regular participants in their activities.
SkyWay specialise in training and supporting people to develop their own responses to community problems. The aim of this is to enable people to collectively address the challenges they face in life which is more sustainable than trying to “solve” problems for them.
At Lennox Children’s Cancer Fund…
They support families through childhood cancer with financial, emotional & practical support and respite breaks. As well as special projects, including their “We’ve Got Your Back” Pack for children newly diagnosed with cancer in UK hospitals.
We got together with SkyWay and Lennox Children’s Cancer Fund to talk about what this partnership means to us, and how it will impact the communities we support. Watch the full video here: