Media

Chance UK makes the news

Key statistics on our work

• 98% of children who had a Chance UK mentor see an improvement in their behavioural difficulties by the end of the mentoring year*.
  
• 51% of children who have a Chance UK mentor are classed as no longer having a behavioural difficulty by the end of the mentoring year*.
  
• Chance UK works directly with 120 children in the London boroughs of Islington, Hackney and Lambeth.
  
• Chance UK works in partnership with organisations across the UK, including Action for Children , Worldshapers and Children and Family Action. These projects deliver the Chance UK model of mentoring in their six local communities.
  
  

*Analysis of the Impact of Chance UK’s Mentoring Programme, Goldsmith’s University, 2009.

Chance UK in the press

Chance UK has been featured in the following publications since 2002,  each of whom have covered us and our transformative work with children.

• Charity Finance, February 2009
• The Independent, February 2009
• Guardian Education supplement, April 2008
• Times Educational Supplement, October 2007
• Community Care Magazine, July 2007
• The Independent on Sunday, May 2007
• Epolitix, October 2006
• Islington Tribune, July 2006
• The House Magazine, December 2005
• Third Sector, April 2005
• Young Minds Magazine 66, October 2003
• Chance for Change, August 2003
• FHM, November 2002
• The Observer, September 2002

Please direct any press enquiries to Gracia McGrath at
ceo@chanceuk.com.