AllChild

A massive thank you to Secretary of State Lisa Nandy, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, Colette Dutton, and all the other wonderful people that spoke at our Wigan launch event yesterday! Watch the video below to hear what Lisa Nandy has to say about her vision for children and young people. Needless to say, what she speaks to here is deeply aligned with our vision of support for communities in providing the opportunities their children and young people deserve to flourish. Both the Culture Secretary and Mayor highlighted the power and importance of partnership and collaboration when working to create effective, meaningful change for children and young people. As residents and current and former MPs in the Wigan area themselves, they also emphasised the spirit of community service that has long existed in these neighbourhoods and the fantastic work already being done by Wigan Council to create the conditions needed for people to feel hope and achieve their ambitions. Our model is founded in a holistic and collaborative approach that, as the Culture Secretary says here, means not 'doing to' communities, but 'doing with'. Our thanks to all the speakers, programme partners, funders, schools, community leaders, and AllChild Link Workers for a wonderful event! Greater Manchester Combined Authority Department for Culture, Media and Sport Wigan Council Bank of America The National Lottery Community Fund Children's Commissioner for England

We are very excited to announce that AllChild has received a significant grant from The Julia Rausing Trust, marking a continuation and expansion of our partnership that began in 2022. We are deeply grateful for their support, which is more critical now than ever, and will be transformational to our programmes and the lives of the children and young people we work with. With this generous grant, we will be able to support over 1,000 children and young people, along with their families and wider communities. Our dedicated teams of Link Workers will be mobilised across 37 schools in West London, working deeply within these communities to foster meaningful change. Our goal is not only to support the children and young people directly but also to positively influence their families, peers, and communities. The need for this support is urgent, with recent research illustrating the huge challenges children currently face: - The attainment gap is at its widest since 2011 (Social Mobility Commission, 2024). - 1 in 5 children have a probable mental health disorder (NHS England, 2023). - Almost a quarter of secondary school students are persistently absent (DfE, 2024). These figures underscore the importance of our work and the critical role that the Julia Rausing Trust's funding plays in addressing these needs. Together, we are committed to giving every child and young person the opportunities they deserve to flourish. Thank you, Julia Rausing Trust, for your incredible support in making our mission a reality. #AllChild #Impact #Support #CYP

Double your donation, double the impact. Get ready for the Big Give! This year, AllChild is once again taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge, a matched-funding campaign that runs for just one week in December where any donations made to us are matched by our amazing Big Give partner, The Childhood Trust. The challenge runs from Tuesday 3rd - Tuesday 10th December and any donation made to AllChild during this time period will be doubled! We aim to raise £30,000 in donations, which, thanks to the matched funding, will total £60,000 to help fund our critical work in giving children and young people living in underserved neighbourhoods the social, emotional, and academic opportunities they deserve to flourish. Click the link below to learn more. https://lnkd.in/eymVXK6G #ChristmasChallenge #AllChild #impact #DoubleforChristmas #support

AllChild has grown over the last 8 years to reach thousands of children across not just west London but Greater Manchester. Co-design and partnership has been crucial to our growth and transformational impact with children and communities – partnerships with children & families, partnerships with schools, partnerships with local government, communities, VCSE, businesses and philanthropists. And our partnerships with central government via the Commissioning Better Outcomes and Life Chances Funds. We were delighted to be able to welcome Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy to Wigan last week to show her first hand the range and depth of relationships and partnerships that are central to making an AllChild programme work. Civil society has a huge role to play in delivering the government’s missions for children and young people – missions of opportunity, of safer streets and healthier lives. And we know national, regional and local governments have a huge role to play in delivering AllChild’s ambition to transform outcomes for young people across the country. We look forward to contributing to the government’s consultation on a new Civil Society Covenant as they look to reset the critical relationship with civil society. #Collaboration #Partnership #Cocreation #AllChild #CYPImpact

On Monday, we were delighted to celebrate the launch of AllChild’s work in Wigan in a room filled with people from across sectors wanting the very best for Wigan’s children and families - Wigan Council, local voluntary and community organisations, schools, public health, social investors, philanthropists and national government. It was the AllChild partnership model brought to life! With speakers including Department for Culture, Media and Sport Secretary of State Lisa Nandy and Greater Manchester Combined Authority Mayor Andy Burnham, the event not only celebrated the launch of our first out of London partnership, but also our ambition to see children around the country flourishing through our approach of early action and opportunities rooted within their local community. Our 10 year vision is to permanently transform outcomes for young people across the country and catalyse a national movement towards this way of working. Using our event to support the launch of the government’s new National Youth Strategy, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy announced that, 'a child's life doesn't stop at the school gates and neither should we'. This is something we understand all too well and we look forward to working with all our partners in Wigan, London and beyond to make our shared vision a reality Thank you to all our guests who joined the occasion and to our amazing speakers! Department for Culture, Media and Sport Greater Manchester Combined Authority The National Lottery Community Fund Wigan Council Bank of America Children's Commissioner for England Phil Chamberlain Colette Dutton Iwona Szmidt Click to read more about the event below https://lnkd.in/ez9kgy5r

It has been a huge week for AllChild (Formerly West London Zone), and so on the advice of our amazing Head of Engagement Cynthia Uthayakumar, I thought I would take the time to reflect here. My increasing view is that what we’re building at AllChild is relevant not only for children’s policy but for the wider conversation around public service reform, where many of the same problems loom large… In my role as Partnerships Director over the past five days, I have presented to DCMS' Youth team, led a group of 13 systems-minded philanthropists around one of our London communities (via UBS Giving Circle), and attended two milestone events for AllChild: our biggest and most ambitious fundraising event to date, and our Wigan launch event with Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and Mayor Andy Burnham, both attended by 100+ people. We are also engaged with Home Office (Youth Futures), DfE (attendance and school-based support), DCMS (civil society and youth work) and Treasury (social outcomes partnerships, economic benefits of early intervention). All of which is to say that there is more interest in the AllChild model than ever. In a world where there is growing consensus about what “good” services look like (more preventative, more personalised and relational, more community-led), the real challenge is working out how to actually deliver that vision for people who are living – as we all are – in stretched and chaotic systems. I think AllChild’s various innovations - cross-sector delivery partnerships, mixed and outcomes-based funding, treating “service delivery” first and foremost as a discipline of relationship-building - can help us get there. So next time you hear “we want to change the world but we can’t afford it”, remember this isn’t the end of the conversation. AllChild shows that it is possible to simplify and humanise support for families – and to fund it in a way that incentivises collaboration, empowers practitioners on the ground, and creates the space for preventative approaches in a system stuck in crisis-mode. In a few weeks our CEO Louisa Mitchell MBE (AllChild) is speaking at Demos’ Future Public Services Summit. I hope we can keep pulling at this thread and understand how the welfare 'state' of the 21st Century will look different to that of the 20th. But also most importantly, how we can actually make any of this happen in the real world. 🤓 🏙️ 🫂

Last week AllChild hosted guests at Barlby Primary school for a candlelit evening of activity. Participants were able to move around classrooms to experience and interact with the work of some of our delivery partners, gaining an immersive perspective of our programmes. The evening also included a silent auction and we want to say a huge thank you to everyone that donated auction items for their support. The overall event was incredibly successful and we were able to raise a huge amount of vital funds to support our work for children and young people.

We are delighted to share that Rt Hon Lisa Nandy, Secretary of State for Department for Culture, Media and Sport will be speaking at our upcoming event in Wigan today. Speaking on AllChild's work, Lisa said, “Vital interventions like AllChild’s new programme right here in Wigan are essential in supporting children to achieve their full potential.” #allchild #wigan #community

A programme is being launched in Wigan to offer specialist support to 250 pupils impacted by mental health problems, persistent absenteeism and school exclusions.

We are delighted to share that Rt Hon Lisa Nandy, Secretary of State for Department for Culture, Media and Sport will be speaking at our upcoming event in Wigan today. Speaking on AllChild's work, Lisa said, “Vital interventions like AllChild’s new programme right here in Wigan are essential in supporting children to achieve their full potential.” #allchild #wigan #community