Our
programmes
The Change Foundation programmes are designed and delivered by young people with lived experience, tackling issues relevant to young people today.
OVER 5,000 SUPPORT HOURS ARE PROVIDED TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE EACH YEAR OUTSIDE OF OUR SPORTS SESSIONS.
For more information on each programme, please contact the relevant Team Coach.
Street Elite is an award-winning training for work programme which engages young people aged 18 -25 affected by serious youth crime and inequality.
Street Elite launched in 2011 has recruited and trained over 800 young people, with over 80% of them transitioning into sustained work, education or training opportunities.
To find out more contact Ross Defoe.
Girls Win uses sport to support young women and girls aged 11-21 with a disability.
Since starting in 2016, the programme has supported over 200 young people with disabilities such as hearing impairment, visual impairment, Autism Spectrum Disorder and physical and learning difficulties.
To find out more contact Shedaine Henry.
Netball 4 Change uses netball to educate young women and girls aged 10-18 on how to stay safe online.
Over the past five years the programme has helped over 1000 young people in schools across Bristol, London and Newcastle.
To find out more contact Shedaine Henry.
London Futures is an employability programme for young Londoners aged 18 – 30 with learning disabilities and/or physical disabilities.
Since launching in 2019, London Futures has engaged with over 100 Londoners, 70% of which has transition into full time employment, education or training.
To find out more contact Ryan Jones.
12 Rounds is an anti-knife crime education programme that targets with Key Stage 3 (11-14 year olds).
The programme started in 2019 and works with schools in London to educate them about the lasting impact of knife crime education.
To find out more contact Ross Defoe.
In 2015 The Change Foundation set out to create an inspirational and completely new sport, designed to build on rugby’s commitment to social inclusion and personal wellbeing. We have been piloting the game with youth and adult clubs in London and growing the game internationally through a visually impaired rugby 3 test match series in New Zealand during the British and Irish Lions tour in 2017 and in Japan during the Rugby World Cup in 2019. This has helped develop the rules, equipment and players to create a game based around the Rugby 7’s touch format. The gameplay takes into consideration a wide range of sight conditions whilst maintaining the fundamental codes, laws and spectacle of rugby to both the players and spectators.
To find out more contact Alex Bassan.
Dance 4 Change uses dance therapy to help marginalised young women aged 16 – 25 suffering from poor mental health to develop coping strategies. The young women face one or more of the following challenges: depression, anxiety disorders, self-harm, eating disorders, PTSD, personality disorders and body confidence issues.
Dance 4 Change started in 2015 as a community dance programme working with over 200 marginalised young women. These young women have helped to develop the programme and to focus on 3 main objectives:
to improve resilience, to enable young women to better handle their emotions and to increase self-worth.
To find out more contact Shedaine Henry.
RUGBY 4 CHANGE
Graeme acted as a guide and mentor to our coaches and to our management team and he was instrumental in giving us the focus and self-belief to use rugby, the game he loved, to make a lasting difference in the lives of some of our most marginalised young people.
The idea for the Graeme Porteous Scholarship came from Graeme’s friends and family who wanted a way for his name to continue to be part of the charity that meant so much to him following his tragic death in a skiing accident in 2016.
To find out more contact Andy Sellins.
Generation STORM (Special Team Of Role Models) is a programme targeted at supporting young black women aged 16-25 in London.
On the 25-week programme young women experience weekly well-being workshops, life-skills sessions and influential one-to-one mentoring with black female mentors.
To find out more contact Shedaine Henry.
The Change Foundation Esports programme engages vulnerable young people aged 16 – 25.
The programme helps combat mental health, severe loneliness and involvement in crime and violence using gaming, mentoring and career development opportunities.
For more information, please contact Ross Defoe.
The Refugee Cricket Project, delivered in partnership with the Refugee Council, works with young refugees and child asylum seekers providing them with a safe space to play cricket, integrate into their new environment, gain advocacy support and help them develop a sense of belonging. Over 100 individual unaccompanied young refugees attend the Refugee Cricket Project each year.
To find out more contact Daniel Lineker.
