POSITIVELY CHANGING YOUNG PEOPLE’S LIVES THROUGH THE POWER OF:

CO-CREATION Mentoring Physical activity & Wellbeing Programmes

ACTIVE LINK A CHARITY NAMED BY YOUNG PEOPLE.

OUR PROGRAMMES ARE DESIGNED WITH YOUNG PEOPLE, FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Active Link is a UK charity, based in Northamptonshire supporting vulnerable young people of secondary school age who are disengaged in education. Providing mentoring and co-created physical activity and wellbeing programmes in and out of school.

Our programmes not only benefit the young people we work with but the families/carers, schools and wider community too.

Supported

young people

Completed

hours of mentoring

Completed

half term home visits

Made

121 phone calls

Our Impact

Behaviour is better and the atmosphere is calmer in school

Attendance increased significantly

The girls who always refused to do PE: are now joining in

Young people have joined community sports clubs

Young people volunteering in the local community

Co-creation

Our programmes are designed with the young people we work with optimising empowerment, high engagement and overall success.

Mentoring

Our local mentors provide one-to-one solution focused trauma informed sessions to explore goals, aspirations, behaviours and attitudes.

Physical Activity

We offer a wide range of co-created physical activity interventions that aim to improve academic performance, build confidence and overall health and wellbeing.

We are the 'Active Link’ between hope and hopelessness.

When a young person is faced with trauma or challenges, they can become vulnerable and disengaged. They may show this through anger, fear and upset manifesting as negative and disruptive behaviour at school, at home and in the community.

Communicating their struggles through their behaviour. We focus not on what they have done but why.

Active Link provides a safe space, with trusted mentors and fun co-created physical activity and wellbeing interventions that allow us to explore the need – providing the positive ‘Active Link’ to help set young people on a positive path to a positive future.

It takes a community to raise a child

Community
We build a community to support the young people we work with. Small acts, multiplied by a community, has the power to change lives.

Billy’s Story

When Billy was first referred to Active Link, following a school exclusion, we were presented with a very angry young boy whose whole home life and sense of stability had been upturned. Billy’s mother had recently passed away and his father had not only become a single parent but had also been made redundant due to the Covid pandemic.

The Active Link mentors recognised that Billy’s grief was manifesting as anger and anti-social behaviour and that he needed somewhere to channel these feelings and behaviours in a more positive and focused manner. Active Link signed posted Billy to a 12 week boxing programme which gave him a sense of release as well as acting as a diversionary tactic. At the end of the 12 week programme, through kind donations, Active Link were able to fund an additional 4 weeks of the programme. To keep up his boxing, Billy is looking to volunteer at the boxing club to earn a few sessions per week. In Billy’s case, the power of sport and the passion, commitment and focus it evokes enabled him to face his grief and keep moving forward at a time when it was most challenging.

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