Action Tutoring

Action Tutoring works across the country providing trained volunteer tutors to support pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to pass their GCSEs and SATs. We’ve supported them in creating a strong curriculum, a longer programme and new performance management processes.

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Ada

Ada, the National College for Digital Skills, is empowering the next generation of diverse digital talent by delivering high-quality apprenticeships and running a high-performing 6th form college, all focused on advanced digital skills.

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City Gateway

City Gateway provides education, training and support to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in east London. We have helped City Gateway to secure more than £2 million in long-term funding, enabling them to provide a sustainable programme.

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Empire Fighting Chance

Empire Fighting Chance is a leading sport for development charity that was born on Bristol’s streets in 2006 to fight the impact of inequality on young people’s lives. Using a powerful combination of non-contact boxing and intensive personal support, they challenge and inspire young people aged 8 to 25 to realise their unique potential.

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Football Beyond Borders

Football Beyond Borders uses football to support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who are disengaged or at risk of exclusion from school to build the skills they need to succeed. Their two-year programme consists of weekly two-hour sessions that build literacy and soft skills. Impetus will help Football Beyond Borders to focus their work on the young people who need it the most.

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IntoUniversity

IntoUniversity runs centres where young people from disadvantaged backgrounds receive support to get in to university. Since 2007, we’ve helped IntoUniversity to access new funding streams and build their strategic capabilities. We’ve supported them to scale into a national network of 39 centres, serving over 45,000 young people each year.

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Jon Egging Trust

The Jon Egging Trust offers long-term support to young people who are struggling to engage at school and may have lost focus, confidence and self-belief. Their accredited Blue Skies programmes use STEM-inspired experiences to raise aspiration, self-belief and resilience, and empower young people to challenge themselves and re-engage with education to make informed career choices.

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Khulisa

Khulisa works with marginalised or excluded young people with challenging or anti-social behaviour, equipping them with the skills to choose alternatives to violence and crime.

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Kids Inspire

Kids Inspire provides specialist support to young people and families affected by trauma, distress, or negative experiences. It promotes self-awareness, resilience, and positive relationship building for young people aged 0-25, helping them to improve their mental health and re-engage in education.

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MCR Pathways

Part of the Engage Fund. MCR Pathways is a national, award-winning mentoring programme dedicated to address the deep-rooted inequality in education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances for young people in care and those experiencing disadvantage.

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Olive Academies

Part of the Engage Fund. Olive Academies Trust runs five academies across London and East England, specialising in alternative provision alongside Olive Outreach, an exclusion-prevention programme in mainstream schools. We're supporting their ambitions to further develop their outreach and preventative programmes within mainstream schools.

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School of Hard Knocks

Part of the Engage Fund. School of Hard Knocks' mission is to empower individuals to fully realise their potential by enabling them to find meaning and purpose in their lives. It does this by fostering an environment of genuine acceptance, using physical activity, group social and emotional learning sessions and one-to-one support. It's 5Cs framework focuses on changing behaviours associated with: confidence, commitment, communication, control and cohesion.

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ThinkForward

ThinkForward​ identifies young people most at risk of unemployment and provides them with a dedicated coach from age 13 to 18. Impetus has helped ThinkForward grow from a small pilot to running programmes in schools and colleges across London, the Midlands and Kent.

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The Access Project

The Access Project works with high-potential students from disadvantaged backgrounds, providing tutoring and intensive support including mentoring, practice interviews and networking, to help them get into top universities. Working with Impetus, The Access Project now works in more schools, with more young people achieving the outcomes that matter.

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The Difference

Part of the Engage Fund. The Difference finds and trains tomorrow’s inclusive school leaders, working with pupil referral units and mainstream schools to reach thousands of young people across the country. We’re helping them to complete their four-year pilot, testing a radical approach that will change the way we educate students at-risk of exclusion.

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The Tutor Trust

The Tutor Trust provides small group tuition for disadvantaged pupils in schools in the north of England. A randomised control trial, funded by the Education Endowment Foundation, found that primary school children who received tutoring from The Tutor Trust made three months’ additional progress in maths. Impetus is helping The Tutor Trust to improve the exam results of more pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Voice 21

Voice21 runs a variety of oracy training programmes for teachers and schools. We’ve worked with Voice21 to make them stronger and able to deliver better results.

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West London Zone

West London Zone helps children and young people build the relationships and skills they need to get on track socially, emotionally and academically to thrive in adulthood. We’ve supported them in developing their leadership team and helped them secure multi-year co-investment funding to ensure their programme remains sustainable and can reach more young people.

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