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We want people to join us to transform young people's lives. We do this through values-driven physical education, street dance, mentoring and community KICK Academies to impact a sense of hopelessness. Due to our success, we plan to expand our work nationally.
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Situation
The work of KICK seeks to tackle the sense of hopelessness seen in many young people as a third of young people (aged 15) identify with a mental health condition. Current research shows that this is increasing further due to the covid-19 pandemic. Barnardo’s research showed that one in three children and young people reported a rise in mental health and wellbeing issues with 45% of 16-18-year-olds reporting they felt more anxious (‘The Big Barnardos’ Conversation’, May 2020).
Solution
In five years, KICK has quintupled in size to engage more than 12,687 beneficiaries a week across 70 schools and 27 KICK Academies across London. We have scaled from seven staff to 62 professional coaches, grown from £225k turnover to £1.1m, and from six boroughs to 28 in five years. However, we want to expand to five new regions and to do so will incur some start-up costs.
