Body & Soul: You Are Not Alone (YANA)

Body & Soul is revolutionising suicide prevention. Suicide is the leading cause of death for young people under 35, with five young people dying by suicide each day and thousands attempting each week. Young people are trapped in cycles of suicidality, facing systems that leave them on waiting lists, provide only short-term support, and see them as only a diagnosis. We exist to break this cycle.

Our programme You Are Not Alone (YANA) combines proven individual and group therapies, a whole-family approach, creative practices, advocacy, and the strength of community to provide life-saving support. Two years ago, we developed U20 as part of YANA, specifically for 16–20-year-olds. The first of its kind, U20 adapts clinically adherent DBT to be developmentally appropriate in terms of language, and curriculum. By addressing immediate risk while fostering lasting connection, resilience, and purpose, we help young people reclaim and transform their lives.

Support needed:

• Scaling: Support in scaling U20 will help us extend our impact across England. Access to strategic advice and networks can guide us in identifying growth opportunities, building partnerships, and designing sustainable models that maintain the programme’s integrity.
• Impact Measurement/ROI: In England, each suicide of someone under 30 costs the economy £1.87 million on average. We hope to demonstrate that U20 is a cost-effective alternative, delivering prevention and sustainable recovery at significantly lower expense than prolonged inpatient care. Support in designing robust measurement frameworks and validating economic and human impact will strengthen our case for funders and stakeholders.
• Growth as a Social Enterprise: We currently deliver suicide prevention trainings for external organisations, host talks, and offer venue hire. Increasingly, front-line employers are requesting therapeutic support for their staff, and we are exploring how best to meet this need. Guidance from experienced advisors can help us expand these initiatives, diversify income streams, and maximise social impact.
• Public Relations: Expertise in communications, media, and storytelling would help raise awareness of U20’s work, and attract supporters, partners, funders, and collaborators to scale our impact further.

http://www.bodyandsoulcharity.org/

The Colyton Foundation: Your Future Story

In the South West of England, children from under-resourced backgrounds face some of the greatest barriers to accessing higher education in the UK. Levels of high attainment for disadvantaged pupils are among the lowest nationally at every stage of the school journey. Fewer young people from these backgrounds progress to university than in any other English region.

Your Future Story is a pioneering programme that supports cohorts of high-attaining pupils from under-resourced backgrounds to remain on the pathway to higher education – from Year 7 all the way to an undergraduate degree. Developed in partnership with leading universities and over 30 schools, its sustained, school-centred model is specifically designed to address the challenges of rural and coastal isolation. Pupils benefit from personal development workshops, university and employer visits, and long-term mentoring from trained in-school Teacher Champions. We also work with families and school leaders to embed a culture of high expectation and achievement.

By 2035, Your Future Story aims to enable 1,000 pupils to access top universities—transforming life chances and creating a replicable model for raising attainment in isolated communities across the UK.

Support needed:

• Fundraising strategy: advice and networks to approach major foundations and secure long-term philanthropic backing as we scale the programme.
• Leadership coaching: mentorship for our founder as a first-time charity leader navigating steep learning curves while building a regional coalition.
• Governance and financial planning: guidance to help a young charity grow to maturity, with strong structures, effective oversight, and sustainable financial management.
• Legal support and guidance: focusing on areas such as data protection, intellectual property, and partnership agreements.
• Storytelling and media: expertise to refine our narrative, raise our profile, and engage new supporters.

https://www.colytonfoundation.org/

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The Giving HOPE (Hold On Pain Eases) Project

Giving HOPE aims to reduce the trauma of mothers and babies separated at birth due to safeguarding concerns. Rooted in research and co-produced with women with lived experience, we bring compassion into one of the most painful moments a family can face. The HOPE Mothers group is central, ensuring lived experience drives our work.

Together we created the HOPE Boxes, which we are embedding in Health and Children’s Social Care partnerships across England. The Boxes provide comfort, help mothers and babies stay connected, and support maternal identity while decisions are made in the family courts. They also capture early moments that may support a child’s developing identity if they are adopted or remain apart from birth parents. For practitioners, they are a compassionate tool, recognising the needs of mother and baby.

We are growing fast and want to expand our offer and the HOPE Mothers group and create clear pathways for lived experience support and progression in the organisation.

Support needed:

• Business modelling and financial sustainability: building a robust model to scale and spread our offer, ensuring Giving HOPE is a sustainable CIC.
• Logistics and supply chain management: strengthening procurement, distribution, and operations so we can deliver at scale ethically, efficiently, and sustainably.
• Governance framework development: strengthening structures and policies that reflect our aims for co-production and leadership whilst ensuring we remain trauma-informed and prioritise wellbeing.
• Social impact accounting: moving beyond evaluation to evidence and articulate our wider social value in ways that resonate with commissioners, funders, and corporate partners.
• Develop a communications strategy : that both raises awareness of our work, acknowledges the complexity and places compassion, protection and care for all at its heart.

https://www.givinghope.org.uk/

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Held in our Hearts (Heart to Heart)

Heart to Heart will offer voice-note, text, and phone support for those affected by baby loss. Breaking down barriers, from early intervention to ongoing peer-support, our mission is to ensure no one is alone when their baby dies.

This service responds to a growing need, with our own peer-supports experiencing frequent out-of-hours requests from bereaved parents, as well as employers, family, friends, and community members seeking guidance.

We know 81% of bereaved parents feel more socially engaged after early support; and nearly 70% prefer text-based or ‘voice note’ communication. Flexible, early, and with lived experience, Heart to Heart ensures no one faces baby loss alone.

The funding and support from the Stephen Lloyd Awards will enable us to build the digital infrastructure needed to pilot and deliver our innovative Heart to Heart service.

Support needed:

• IT Infrastructure: Development of a secure, accessible digital communication system that will connect grieving parents with specialist support at the moment they need it most. Using existing or new IT systems to create a user-friendly service which allows our specialist peer-supporters to manage voice note, text, and phone support, ensuring data protection and smooth service delivery.
• Marketing: Strategic promotion to reach bereaved parents, families, NHS Partners, professionals, and other community members. With your backing, we can reach more bereaved families and communities across Scotland – by embedding Heart to Heart within a framework of early intervention and long-term bereavement care.
• Fundraising and Investment: Financial backing to launch, sustain, and scale Held In Our Hearts’ newest specialist bereavement support service. Support building and delivering strategic and compelling individual giving, major donor and legacy campaigns to grow a diverse portfolio of income streams. Connecting with like-minded innovators, change makers, and investors, who believe in our organisations’ values and mission, could lead to new ideas, practices, and potential collaborations.
• Impact Measurement: We seek partners who can help us build a robust evaluation framework for this service, which can be integrated into a new CRM system – capturing real-time feedback, service usage data, equity monitoring and long-term outcomes such as improved social engagement, earlier access to care, and reduced isolation. With your expertise and resources, we can track change at both individual and national levels, providing transparent evidence of impact to strengthen future service delivery and policy change.
• Policy Influencing: We would value the influence and involvement of Stephen Lloyd Partners who can support our organisation as we continue to explore the development of a minimum framework for bereavement care following pregnancy, baby, or infant loss ensuring every family’s right to specialist support is protected in law.

https://heldinourhearts.org.uk/

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Quaker Social Action (Stirring The Pot)

Stirring The Pot is a new, bold initiative for those without access to a kitchen, based on the Cook Up project by Quaker Social Action. We will ‘stir the pot’ by bringing people together to build a community around food provision and advocating for change.

Over 80,000 families – including 164,000 children – live in temporary accommodation in England, most for over two years and many without kitchen access, making it impossible to meet a basic need: accessing nutritious, culturally appropriate food.

Cook Up provides kitchens and ingredients for individuals experiencing homelessness, giving them autonomy and dignity to choose their own food and manage a shared kitchen together.

We will build, support and galvanise a network of community kitchens to offer practical benefits – more people having access to trauma-informed, respectful cooking spaces – and leverage collective strength to influence policy, securing kitchen access as a right for everyone in temporary accommodation.

Support needed:

• Theory of Change and impact measurement:help to evidence our impact ethically, respectful of the input we would be asking from trauma-experienced participants.
• Advocacy & network facilitation: connections and vetting for our project to potential kitchen partners (e.g. places of worship, cookery schools, community centres and residency associations).
• Replication support including legal expertise: : guidance to replicate our model across different sites and to support underused kitchen to adopt it safely and responsibly.
• Fundraising and food partnerships: financial support to realise our project, as well as providing kitchens with the knowledge to acquire left-over produce and to raise their own funds for long-term sustainability.
• Marketing & communication: help raising the lack of kitchen access as an urgent issue, while creating marketing materials that attract kitchen spaces to join and produce a guide for them to work with people with different needs in a trauma-informed way.
• Policy influencing: help to speak truth to power on structural inequality and racial injustice in food access, to shift power to those with lived experience of homelessness and migration and highlight the intersection of the immigration system, poverty and homelessness to create systemic change for those housed in temporary accommodation.

https://quakersocialaction.org.uk/

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Square Mile Farms

We design, build and operate indoor farms that grow fresh, healthy and sustainable food in the heart of where people live and work.

With our farms we create vibrant spaces that bring people together, provide access to nature, promote physical & mental wellbeing and empower people to be more sustainable.

We operate our farms as a network of currently over 100 sites, and together every day we grow 30,000+ fresh, healthy and nutritious plants for our urban communities.

With this project, we want to create a ‘showcase farm’ in a school and deliver an awareness campaign across local councils, schools and other public sector organisations of the tremendous social value of indoor farms. Importantly, we want to capture data from this showcase farm to quantify the benefits for community engagement, happiness, nutrition and environment to demonstrate the relatively low investment for significant public good.

Support needed:

• Funding: To install and operate a farm in a school and facilitate regular activities and events for students, staff and visitors.
• Impact Measurement: To measure the impact of the farm across dimensions such as community engagement, happiness, nutrition and environmental impact with data collection tools (eg sensors) as well as qualitative and quantitative research and analysis.
• Awareness campaign with policymakers & other stakeholders: To create materials and deliver stakeholder events that will promote indoor farming within the public sector, including public policy recommendations on the social value of farms in public buildings such as schools, hospitals and libraries.

http://www.squaremilefarms.com

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Transforming Autism Project

Unsupported, autistic children face delayed development, communication, isolation and exclusion. Families face significant delays from a system tied up in diagnosis. Transforming Autism instead work from detailed assessments provided by our therapists, focusing on each child’s strengths and working alongside parents to grow the skills, knowledge, and confidence they already bring to their relationship.

Our solution Play:cademy, opens a crucial window for early development that many children currently miss. Using Live video and discreet audio earpieces, therapists join parents at home in real time, helping them recognise and build on moments of shared attention as they play with their child. Video reflection sessions deepen understanding and spark new ideas. Accessible anywhere in the UK, building on each parent’s unique insight into their child, it fosters stronger connections during the most responsive stage of brain development. With your support autistic children can have the best start in life.

Support needed:

• Scaling Up: As Transforming Autism establishes UK-wide reach, we need a long-term operational and funding strategy and structure to achieve this. Our growth to date has been reliant on a team of 35 professional volunteers covering family services, HR, IT, communications, social media, finance, and PR. Our Part-time CEO was employed last year and we would like strategic support as we expand the employed workforce, refine operations, diversify funding sources and enter new partnerships.
• Measuring Social Impact: We already work with universities to support impact measurement at a programme level, but we would like support to demonstrate system-level impact of our interventions. It is important that we can demonstrate how Play:cademy and other Transforming Autism programmes can help address the crisis in autism care.
• Legal Support: As we grow and form new partnerships, legal guidance will become increasingly important. Some major health providers have already expressed interest in our programmes, and collaborating with larger organisations will expand Transforming Autism’s reach and impact. Our trustees want to ensure they exercise their duty of care and consider any risks before entering new partnerships.
• Governance: Our trustee board comprises individuals with lived or professional experience in autism, spanning digital fundraising, finance, legal, and HR expertise. To further our mission and diversify income streams, we would like to enhance our board with new members who can extend our networks and help raise the charity’s profile.

https://www.transformingautism.org/

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Wayward Plants: Building London's Green Space Circular Economy

Construction and demolition waste, including tonnes of landscape materials, fills our landfills while communities across London lack the resources to create and care for vital green spaces. Wayward Plants bridges this gap by rescuing plants, trees, and materials from development sites and redistributing them to our network of 2,000 community and school gardens across the city.

As the Official Reuse Partner of the RHS for nearly a decade, we’ve proven our model works. We’ve rehomed over 100,000 mature plants and trees to more than 1,000 community groups and schools, engaged hundreds of volunteers, and diverted 400+ tonnes of waste from landfill through large-scale initiatives at Chelsea Flower Show and Hampton Court Palace.

Now we’re scaling up. Our new Wayward Plants Reuse Centre launches on a 4,000m² site in Colindale, Barnet, creating London’s first circular economy platform for plants, trees and landscape materials. This scalable infrastructure will transform how regeneration schemes and construction projects handle valuable resources, ensuring they reach the communities that need them most while creating a groundbreaking hub for sustainability, creativity, community and connection.

Support Needs:

• Legal & Governance: Support with charity registration, governance frameworks, and legal requirements for spinning out Wayward Plants (our reuse initiative) as its own registered charity from our reuse initiative. We need guidance on creating the optimal structure for both organisations to work symbiotically.
• Capacity Building: Support developing systems design and infrastructure (digital and physical) to handle scaling operations, plus strategies for managing resource-intensive opportunities like plant donations that require collection, excavation, and logistics coordination.
• Trustee & Advisory Recruitment: Help identifying trustees and advisors who align with our mission and can provide strategic guidance to scale our reuse initiative.
• Partnership & Network Building: Strategic support developing relationships with government (city-wide and local authorities), regeneration, housing, construction and development sectors to embed our work at scale. Support building alignment and partnerships with other circular economy and reuse initiatives, particularly in the built environment.
• Impact Measurement/ROI: Development of frameworks to measure and demonstrate the environmental, social and economic impact of our reuse initiatives, creating compelling ROI models for funders and partners.
• Funding Strategy: Expertise in creating a sustainable funding strategy for our scaling plans.

https://www.wayward.co.uk/

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Work+Play Hub – Redefining work-life balance for parents

The world of work has evolved, but support systems haven’t. Over 50% of British parents reduce working hours or leave employment to manage childcare. Many are left juggling laptops on café tables while children play; or they stay home altogether – cut off from income, ambition, and support. Children, meanwhile, miss out on quality early learning and social interaction. Layers of disadvantage create a compounding web of challenges that traditional services cannot untangle. This is not just a family issue: it’s a community-wide loss of economic resilience, wellbeing, and future opportunity.

Work+Play presents the opportunity to break this pattern by offering an integrated, human-centred solution designed by and for families. Our hub is where play meets purpose: a truly flexible coworking space, a supervised Froebelian-inspired creche, and tailored mental health support – all under one roof.

Being forced to choose between a career and our children isn’t just unfair. It’s unsustainable.

Support needed:

• Business Model Optimisation: We seek expert support to refine our business model, strengthening our value proposition, cost structure, and market strategy. Our goal is to become largely self-sufficient, relying on strategic partnerships to ensure steady capital flow and long-term sustainability.
• Impact Measurement: As a charity run for and with the community, it is vital that we rigorously monitor and evaluate the outcomes of our programmes. To drive the systemic change we aspire to, we need robust evidence of our social impact.
• Accountancy: To focus our energy on delivering core services, we require professional accountancy support. Preparing our financial systems for rapid growth is critical to ensure we are ready to scale effectively and sustainably.
• Strategic Fundraising: As a newly formed charity with bold ambitions, we need investment (financial capital and aligned long-term partners) to extend our reach and maximise community benefit. We have the plan, expertise, and commitment to address the challenges we’ve identified – what we need now is the financial backing to make it happen.

http://workplusplayhub.com

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YESfest : A Serious, Joyful, Compelling Way To Reconnect The Next Generation’s Communities With Their Planet

YESfest (Youth Eco-Summits with a festival vibe) incubates systemic climate action by attracting and empowering communities of children aged 8–10 to become young environmental leaders.

This is a typically underserved demographic, at a developmental age when children are looking for meaning, purpose and communities of peers. Yet their attention is drawn to media proven to disconnect them from real communities and nature.

Since its inception in 2023 and launch as a community interest company in the House of Lords December 2024, YESfest has grown into the beginnings of an antidote to this disconnect and as a credible movement connecting communities of children across the UK and in 15+ other locations globally.

Through:

• Nature-connected camping ‘YESfest’ festivals/ eco-summits
• International online peer ‘Global Gatherings’
• Community-action ‘YESquests’

All in an inclusive, non-judgemental way, co-created with young people.

Support needed:

• • Programme Scaling: assistance to adapt and expand our existing codified YESfest eco-summit festival programme templates to reach more schools and communities in the UK and globally in a way that is co-created with partner organisations, whilst maintaining integrity to our mission and is localised to sit within the heart of each of its communities and local cultures and jurisdictions. Particularly help appreciated around digital CRM and UX platforms.
  • Digital storytelling & Marketing: support to amplify our impact via social media, with engaging age-appropriate content that can hold its own in a social-media saturated landscape. Support with developing our festival, global gathering and YESquest branding and compelling, impactful website, traditional media and in-person storytelling for wider, meaningful engagement which expands upon and sharpens our existing assets and approaches.
  • Partnership development: introductions to schools, youth organisations, or eco-networks interested in co-hosting or sponsoring events.
  • Strategic planning & evaluation : guidance in measuring quantitive and qualitative impact beyond the usual tickboxing towards something more long-term, nuanced and credible , developing programme frameworks, and planning long-term growth and sustainable revenue.
  • Pro bono expertise: help with legal, governance, or operational setup as YESfest grows as a CIC, delivering national and global initiatives.

Thank you for helping us incubate the next generation’s communities of local and global Earth stewards.

http://www.YES-fest.com

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