Fair Chance, Your Chance

Preventing youth homelessness through intensive, tailored, flexible counselling and guidance in Manchester and Greenwich.

  • Department for Communities & Local Government

  • Cabinet Office

  • Depaul UK

  • Social Finance UK

  • Location

    Manchester & Greenwich

  • Launch

    Jan 2015

  • Area

    Education, Employment & Housing

Collaborators & funding partners

  • Cabinet Office

  • Department for Communities & Local Government

Delivery Partners

  • Depaul UK

  • Social Finance

Team

Collaborators & funding partners

  • Cabinet Office

  • Department for Communities & Local Government

Delivery Partners

  • Depaul UK

  • Social Finance

  • Andrew Levitt

    Co-Founder and Executive Director of Operations, Innovation and Learning

    Andrew is Co-Founder of Bridges Outcomes Partnerships and Executive Director of Operations, Innovation and Learning. He is a Director of Kirklees Better Outcomes Partnership, GM Homes Partnership, Homelessness Support, the Single Homeless Prevention Service and is a Trustee of West London Zone.

    Prior to Bridges, Andrew was Managing Director of a social enterprise “Baobab” in Madagascar, and a non-Executive board member of two other financial inclusion social enterprises, in Senegal and China.

Overview

Fair Chance, Your Chance supported young people who are homeless and NEET (not in employment, education or training) into stable accommodation, education and employment.

This is a group of individuals who regularly fall through the net of public service provision and who can, if not supported effectively, go on to have significantly worse life outcomes and cost the state a significant amount in lifetime costs.

The programme was delivered by Depaul UK, a national charity focused on homelessness and education, working primarily with young people aged 18-24. The three-year-long service provided wrap-around support, guidance and training to help the young people enter stable accommodation, education and employment and sustain positive life outcomes.

Outcomes

280+ vulnerable young people were supported to move into accommodation and/or into employment, with the programme being a top performer in accommodation outcomes among the Fair Chance Fund providers.

  • 216

    Starts to the programme

  • 91

    Entered into education/training course

  • 192

    Secured accommodation

  • £0.7m

    Outcomes achieved

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