We help schools build cradle-to-career support so that
Every child can enjoy a life of choice and opportunity.
WHY WE FOCUS ON SCHOOLS:
Schools can’t do it all, but they’re 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 fragment—an 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.
WHAT WE DO:
Here’s how we help schools build cradle-to-career support in their neighbourhoods.
We develop people
We grow the people this work needs—leaders and teams who can think across institutions, not only within them.
We develop 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.
We make the case
We are making the argument for joined-up support around children and building the coalition to see it through.
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 country—from single communities to whole regions.
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.
