Our mission and objectives
Chance UK provides one-to-one mentoring for children aged 5-11 with behavioural difficulties. Our mentors work in a solution focused way to improve children's self esteem via activities such as games in the park, visiting museums or anything the child may be interested in.
Our mission is to identify primary school children with behavioural difficulties who are at risk of developing anti-social or criminal offending behaviour in the future, and to offer them one-to-one mentoring with a carefully screened, trained and supervised adult volunteer. We also offer support to the children’s parents and/or carers.
Our objectives are to introduce more stability into the children’s lives; to reduce the isolation they and their families may be experiencing; to directly address the difficulties experienced by each child; to support the children as they find the motivation and life skills they need to move forward; to channel their disruptive energy into projects that encourage a sense of personal achievement; to engender in them a sense of self-worth.
Chance UK is an award-winning registered charity (Charity Registration No. 1046947). We are one of only six organisations in the UK to be re-awarded GoldStar status by the Cabinet Office as an exemplar of good practice in mentoring and befriending.
We follow all appropriate child protection guidelines and practices, promote equality of opportunity, and have non-discriminatory policies and practices.
You can download a copy of our latest annual report below:
 Download Chance UK's 2006-7 Annual Report (1.6 MB)
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‘The mentoring has made a huge difference. It was that piece in the jigsaw we found very hard to fill. [During the mentoring] we were completing the message from every side – that he’s worth something and education is valuable.’
Matt, teacher
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