What we do

Our mission and objectives

Chance UK aims to reduce youth crime and anti-social behaviour across the UK.

We do this by providing one-to-one mentoring for children aged 5-11 with behavioural difficulties. Our volunteer mentors raise children's self esteem via activities such as sports, visiting museums, making scrapbooks...anything the child may be interested in.

We work in a solution-focused way, so our mentors and staff focus on the child's strengths and what they do well, rather than their negative behaviour.

Many of the children we work with are on the verge of being permanently excluded from school. This is frequently the start point for anti-social and later criminal behaviour in a young person's life, so we intervene early to prevent this.

We work closely with the local schools in Hackney, Islington and Lambeth to improve life for the child, their family and their classmates.

No other organisation does the work that we do in the way that we do it with the age group we do it with. Our partnership model of replicating our work is also unique.

Annual reports

Download copies of our latest annual reports below:

Chance UK Annual Report 2008-9 (pdf, 3.5 MB)

Chance UK Annual Report 2007-8 (pdf, 1.9 MB)