We help schools build cradle-to-career support so that
Every child can enjoy a life of choice and opportunity.
Our programmes
WHAT WE DO:
Explore the ways we help schools build cradle-to-career support in their neighbourhoods.
We develop leaders
We nurture the leaders this work needsâpeople who can think and act across institutions, not only within them.
We cultivate the workforce
We develop the wider workforce around children. This work needs people who see themselves as one connected workforce, not separate services passing a child between them.
We strengthen places
We help schools build partnerships in their neighbourhoods. Bringing services, families and communities together around children, cradle to career
We innovate
We pursue breakthroughs on the hardest problems. Testing new ways to join up support where children need it most.
WHY WE FOCUS ON SCHOOLS:
Schools canât do it all, but theyâre the best place to start.
Around every child is a village of people trying to help: teachers, health visitors, youth workers, social workers, coaches, family, neighbours. Each sees a fragmentâan absence, a missed appointment, a flicker of something wrong. Most of them never meet.
But a school sees a child almost every day, for multiple years. It knows the family, the siblings, the street. It's free, it's local, and nearly everyone walks through the door.
This means that schools often notice things first, but quickly hit the limit of what they can fix by themselves.
That's where we come in. We help schools call the meeting. We help schools bring the neighbourhood together around its children. We help schools build support that holds from a child's earliest years to their first steps as a young adult.
WHERE WE WORK:
Locally rooted & nationally connected.
We began in Feltham, in west London, more than a decade ago. Now, we're doing this work in neighbourhoods and places across the countryâfrom single communities to whole regions.
Beating Changing the Odds
We've been filming in the places doing this workâthe leaders, the families, the people who decided their neighbourhood could be organised better around its children.
We will be releasing two more films in this series in early 2026/27.
LEARN WITH US:
The Reach Foundation Training Hub
Videos, short courses and practical tools, so any leader or team can start building cradle-to-career support in their own community.
