Businesses and partners, lets work together
SHOCK - wellbeing and confidence, delivered in school
Twelve weekly sessions for up to twelve pupils the school identifies and the ones the pastoral team worries about. Classroom work combined with outdoor team building, shaped around whatever the school names as its priority.
It costs the school nothing.
What changes for a child: they try again after a setback. They can name what they are feeling instead of acting it out. They work with children they would not normally choose. They leave with their own strategies, not ours.
Partner level
Friend of SHOCK - £500
Bronze — six pupils, one term - £2,500
Silver - one full cohort, twelve pupils - £5,000
Gold - one school for a full year, 24 pupils - £10,000
Platinum -two schools for a full year, 48 pupils - £20,000
Strategic Partner -multi-school or multi-year£25,000+
Dream BiG Young Parents’ Hub - getting young parents back to work
Thirty weeks of employability support for fifteen young parents: CV writing, interview practice, money management, wellbeing and one-to-one help.
The difference is the crèche. Qualified early years staff look after the children in the same building while their parents learn in the next room. Travel and food are covered. Childcare is never the reason someone cannot attend.
Last funding cohort of fifteen: five into paid employment, six into training, three into further or higher education, one began a PhD, one launched her own CIC. Eighty per cent improved on validated wellbeing scoring.
Partner level
Employer Partner - guaranteed interviews, placements, mock interviews - No cash
Friend of the Hub - £500
Bronze - one young parent and their child, full year - £2,650
Silver - two young parents and their children - £5,300
Gold - five young parents, a third of the cohort- £13,250
Platinum - ten young parents - £26,500
Headline - the entire cohort for a year - £39,530
No budget? You can still partner with us
Some of the most valuable support costs nothing at all.
A guaranteed interview scheme for our young parents. Your team running mock interviews or a CV clinic. A workplace visit. An hour of someone’s time explaining what their job is actually like.
These need no budget and no sign-off round. For a young parent who has never set foot in a workplace, they are often what changes everything and they count towards your social value reporting just as cash does.
What you get back
Delivery in the borough where you work, by an organisation that has been here since 2011 and has supported over 5,000 children and young people.
Measured outcomes, not anecdotes. All our delivery is tracked on the Upshot monitoring database, with validated before-and-after wellbeing scores.
A written impact report you can use directly in your own ESG, social value or annual reporting.
Assurance as standard. DBS-checked staff, a Designated Safeguarding Lead in post, full policy suite and public liability insurance. Our holiday provision is Ofsted registered, No. 2893013.
No contact with children. Corporate partners never meet participants and never receive identifying information about a child.
Start with a conversation
It takes fifteen minutes and commits you to nothing.
Lionel Best, Director of Operations
lionel.best@bigcic.org · 020 8676 3480 / 07957 208 930
BiG (Besty’s Inspirational Guidance) C.I.C. · CIC No. 11302042
3Space International House, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton SW9 7QD
Lambeth schools are running out of money. Your social value commitment can change that.
We know that many organisations working in Lambeth hold social value, CSR or Section 106 commitments they are required to evidence. Finding a local partner who can actually deliver against them, and report back properly, is the difficult part. Social value is easy to promise and hard to deliver. That’s where we come in.
We work with children in Lambeth schools and with young parents across the borough, we track every outcome on the Upshot monitoring database, and we give you a written report you can use in your own reporting.
“A third of Lambeth’s maintained schools are now operating licensed deficits totalling £12.2 million, and pastoral support is the first thing cut.”
