Starbucks Islington High Street

WHAT? Our music project will focus on enabling young women to actively address social exclusion and develop the confidence and skills required to enter for the first time or re-enter the workforce. Our project will aim to break down barriers through youth-led creative activities that require young people to challenge themselves to engage with each other, the community and the music industry. Young people will be given access to a range of learning opportunities relevant to music disciplines including; song writing, music recording and engineering and radio presentation and engineering. The project will culminate in an end of project celebration event where the young people will have the opportunity to showcase their learned skills by performing at a community venue in front of their family and friends and project partners and sponsors. WHO? This project will target young care leavers and ex-offenders who are not in employment, education or training (NEET), or who are at risk of becoming NEET due to circumstances affecting their educational engagement and subsequently, their employability prospects including; • Young people aged 18 - 25 who were looked after • not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) • economic deprivation BENEFITS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: • develop musical ability and technical skill in chosen discipline (song writing, learning to play an instrument, sound engineering or radio presentation and engineering) • develop employment related skills including; leadership, communication, critical thinking • improve their self-awareness, expression and communication skills • make friends and participate in meaningful activity which is fun and safe and which mitigates the very real risk that • improve health and wellbeing which manifests in increases to; confidence, self-esteem, agency, self-efficacy, resilience, motivation, self-determination etc. work as a team to achieve a common goal BENEFITS FOR DONORS (Individuals & Businesses): • Staff volunteering opportunities – day trips and co-facilitation of arts employability related workshops • Impact report for project • Acknowledgment of partnership on all social media platforms and website; online and print project marketing materials • Acknowledgement of partnership in outgoing press release promoting end of project celebration event • 3 x case studies prepared by Working Chance • Membership to Women In Leadership forum • Diversity and inclusion consultancy services • Invitation to Working Chance partner breakfast networking event • Permission to use Working Chance logo in annual report or other print and online publication/s (Buisinesses only)

We recruit and train adult volunteer mentors who commit to meeting with a child or young person three times a month for a minimum of two years. The children and young people we support face multiple disadvantages such as: - living with the effects of domestic violence, addiction or bereavement - supporting parents with mental health problems - being a young carer - having a learning disability - poverty. These circumstances have a negative impact on their well-being, educational attainment and puts them at risk of being trapped in cycles of disadvantage, resulting in poor outcomes later in life such as unemployment, mental health problems, substance misuse and crime. The one to one support provided by a mentor improves confidence and self-esteem, builds new skills, improves their experience of childhood by helping them to access new experiences have fun and explore new interests. "A mentor helps you stay out of trouble… they inspire you to do new things and not follow other people, but follow your dreams” Dean, Aged 12

Any funds raised as part of this project could help to fund our amazing research, which will help to improve the lives of the 400,000 people living in the UK who have type 1 diabetes. JDRF also aim to provide support to people who have a connection to type 1 diabetes. Providing invaluable resources when people are first diagnosed, when they attend school, university and if they become pregnant. An example of some of the exciting research projects we are funding is the encapsulation project. In type 1 diabetes your immune system – which is meant to protect you from viruses and bacteria – attacks and destroys the insulin producing cells in your pancreas. Our encapsulation research is developing ways to implant insulin-producing cells in the body, while protecting them from the immune system. Wrapped in a protective coating, these encapsulated islets (insulin-producing cells) would be able to do the same job as healthy islets in the pancreas. This works because the protective capsule is a little like a sieve – tiny holes in the coating allow nutrients to fit through, enabling the cells to live and work well, but are not big enough to allow anything as big as an immune cell to get close to the precious islets.