AllChild

A massive thank you to Secretary of State Lisa Nandy, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, Colette Dutton, and all the other wonderful people that spoke at our Wigan launch event yesterday! Watch the video below to hear what Lisa Nandy has to say about her vision for children and young people. Needless to say, what she speaks to here is deeply aligned with our vision of support for communities in providing the opportunities their children and young people deserve to flourish. Both the Culture Secretary and Mayor highlighted the power and importance of partnership and collaboration when working to create effective, meaningful change for children and young people. As residents and current and former MPs in the Wigan area themselves, they also emphasised the spirit of community service that has long existed in these neighbourhoods and the fantastic work already being done by Wigan Council to create the conditions needed for people to feel hope and achieve their ambitions. Our model is founded in a holistic and collaborative approach that, as the Culture Secretary says here, means not 'doing to' communities, but 'doing with'. Our thanks to all the speakers, programme partners, funders, schools, community leaders, and AllChild Link Workers for a wonderful event! Greater Manchester Combined Authority Department for Culture, Media and Sport Wigan Council Bank of America The National Lottery Community Fund Children's Commissioner for England

Development Director at AllChild Play a leading role in helping every child and young person to flourish. We have big ambitions for the next 10 years at AllChild. We are driven to capitalise on the chance to create long-term change by working in local communities and new regions and, ultimately, by creating a blueprint for national change. Our new development director will work in direct partnership with our chief executive to achieve this ambition. This is a unique opportunity to take the lead in our fundraising strategy and help to drive our vision forward, directly impacting the lives of children and young people. Position: Development Director  Fulltime  Salary: £90,000  Minimum of three days per week in the office or attending donor meetings Key Responsibilities: - Develop and implement AllChild's income strategy in partnership with our Chief Executive and with support of our trustees. - Work with the executive team on our social impact strategy and initiatives. - Lead and choreograph our resources to build and sustain our relationships with major donors and funding partners. - Oversee the fundraising, marketing, and communications teams in all external activities. Qualifications: - Proven major donor fundraiser with experience in securing high-value, multi-year donations. - Expertise in leading campaigns and developing teams to grow income in new and existing locations. - Deeply relational while rigorous about process.  - Skilled communicator with entrepreneurial mindset. - Passionate about AllChild's mission and values. If you fit the bill and share our passion for our purpose, alignment with our values, and a commitment to positive change, this might be the role for you, apply now https://lnkd.in/eJdDfDxM

Localised, place-based support is a core part of the AllChild Model, and it was brilliant to meet with MP Jo Platt last week in Westminster to speak about the AllChild Programme in the Leigh and Atherton area. Co-design is essential when creating sustainable and effective change at a neighbourhood level. We're currently working in 7 schools in the Wigan area, partnered with local charity and voluntary organisations. It was great to speak to Jo about our work in her constituency and hear her own ambitions for the local communities there' We are excited to continue working with schools, local organisations, and national and local government so that together, every child in Wigan can flourish! #AllChild #Impact #CoDesign #Collaboration #WorkingTogether #Partnership #Local #CYPImpact

Some of our young people from Phoenix Academy and West London Free school took part in an #AspirationalWorkExperienceDay hosted by Impetus last week with Blackstone volunteers, and we didn't want the day to end!  The AllChild model is a partnership model, and longstanding partners like Impetus have been critical for achieving the impact we have had so far. Since early 2017, they have provided us with not only financial support but rigorous focus on programme design, impact measurement and have helped us get where we are today. From human bingo to Dragon's Den activities, the combination of minds in the room meant some very creative approaches emerged. Through the students and volunteers reverse interviewing each other, both sides were able to learn so much about their perspectives on life, and how #Career journeys are not linear. We discussed how the goals we set are not always destinations but directions, and the students’ said they understood more about how to seize opportunities and clear obstacles you don’t see coming, and felt motivated to take up more opportunities for their own #Development. These days are crucial for student’s holistic development so AllChild hugely values the support of partners like Impetus - Backing the best for making this day a reality. Thank you so much to staff and volunteers that made the session a success! #AllChild #Partnerships #Impact

We are very excited to announce that AllChild has received a significant grant from The Julia Rausing Trust, marking a continuation and expansion of our partnership that began in 2022. We are deeply grateful for their support, which is more critical now than ever, and will be transformational to our programmes and the lives of the children and young people we work with. With this generous grant, we will be able to support over 1,000 children and young people, along with their families and wider communities. Our dedicated teams of Link Workers will be mobilised across 37 schools in West London, working deeply within these communities to foster meaningful change. Our goal is not only to support the children and young people directly but also to positively influence their families, peers, and communities. The need for this support is urgent, with recent research illustrating the huge challenges children currently face: - The attainment gap is at its widest since 2011 (Social Mobility Commission, 2024). - 1 in 5 children have a probable mental health disorder (NHS England, 2023). - Almost a quarter of secondary school students are persistently absent (DfE, 2024). These figures underscore the importance of our work and the critical role that the Julia Rausing Trust's funding plays in addressing these needs. Together, we are committed to giving every child and young person the opportunities they deserve to flourish. Thank you, Julia Rausing Trust, for your incredible support in making our mission a reality. #AllChild #Impact #Support #CYP

Double your donation, double the impact. Get ready for the Big Give! This year, AllChild is once again taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge, a matched-funding campaign that runs for just one week in December where any donations made to us are matched by our amazing Big Give partner, The Childhood Trust. The challenge runs from Tuesday 3rd - Tuesday 10th December and any donation made to AllChild during this time period will be doubled! We aim to raise £30,000 in donations, which, thanks to the matched funding, will total £60,000 to help fund our critical work in giving children and young people living in underserved neighbourhoods the social, emotional, and academic opportunities they deserve to flourish. Click the link below to learn more. https://lnkd.in/eymVXK6G #ChristmasChallenge #AllChild #impact #DoubleforChristmas #support

AllChild has grown over the last 8 years to reach thousands of children across not just west London but Greater Manchester. Co-design and partnership has been crucial to our growth and transformational impact with children and communities – partnerships with children & families, partnerships with schools, partnerships with local government, communities, VCSE, businesses and philanthropists. And our partnerships with central government via the Commissioning Better Outcomes and Life Chances Funds. We were delighted to be able to welcome Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy to Wigan last week to show her first hand the range and depth of relationships and partnerships that are central to making an AllChild programme work. Civil society has a huge role to play in delivering the government’s missions for children and young people – missions of opportunity, of safer streets and healthier lives. And we know national, regional and local governments have a huge role to play in delivering AllChild’s ambition to transform outcomes for young people across the country. We look forward to contributing to the government’s consultation on a new Civil Society Covenant as they look to reset the critical relationship with civil society. #Collaboration #Partnership #Cocreation #AllChild #CYPImpact

On Monday, we were delighted to celebrate the launch of AllChild’s work in Wigan in a room filled with people from across sectors wanting the very best for Wigan’s children and families - Wigan Council, local voluntary and community organisations, schools, public health, social investors, philanthropists and national government. It was the AllChild partnership model brought to life! With speakers including Department for Culture, Media and Sport Secretary of State Lisa Nandy and Greater Manchester Combined Authority Mayor Andy Burnham, the event not only celebrated the launch of our first out of London partnership, but also our ambition to see children around the country flourishing through our approach of early action and opportunities rooted within their local community. Our 10 year vision is to permanently transform outcomes for young people across the country and catalyse a national movement towards this way of working. Using our event to support the launch of the government’s new National Youth Strategy, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy announced that, 'a child's life doesn't stop at the school gates and neither should we'. This is something we understand all too well and we look forward to working with all our partners in Wigan, London and beyond to make our shared vision a reality Thank you to all our guests who joined the occasion and to our amazing speakers! Department for Culture, Media and Sport Greater Manchester Combined Authority The National Lottery Community Fund Wigan Council Bank of America Children's Commissioner for England Phil Chamberlain Colette Dutton Iwona Szmidt Click to read more about the event below https://lnkd.in/ez9kgy5r

It has been a huge week for AllChild (Formerly West London Zone), and so on the advice of our amazing Head of Engagement Cynthia Uthayakumar, I thought I would take the time to reflect here. My increasing view is that what we’re building at AllChild is relevant not only for children’s policy but for the wider conversation around public service reform, where many of the same problems loom large… In my role as Partnerships Director over the past five days, I have presented to DCMS' Youth team, led a group of 13 systems-minded philanthropists around one of our London communities (via UBS Giving Circle), and attended two milestone events for AllChild: our biggest and most ambitious fundraising event to date, and our Wigan launch event with Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and Mayor Andy Burnham, both attended by 100+ people. We are also engaged with Home Office (Youth Futures), DfE (attendance and school-based support), DCMS (civil society and youth work) and Treasury (social outcomes partnerships, economic benefits of early intervention). All of which is to say that there is more interest in the AllChild model than ever. In a world where there is growing consensus about what “good” services look like (more preventative, more personalised and relational, more community-led), the real challenge is working out how to actually deliver that vision for people who are living – as we all are – in stretched and chaotic systems. I think AllChild’s various innovations - cross-sector delivery partnerships, mixed and outcomes-based funding, treating “service delivery” first and foremost as a discipline of relationship-building - can help us get there. So next time you hear “we want to change the world but we can’t afford it”, remember this isn’t the end of the conversation. AllChild shows that it is possible to simplify and humanise support for families – and to fund it in a way that incentivises collaboration, empowers practitioners on the ground, and creates the space for preventative approaches in a system stuck in crisis-mode. In a few weeks our CEO Louisa Mitchell MBE (AllChild) is speaking at Demos’ Future Public Services Summit. I hope we can keep pulling at this thread and understand how the welfare 'state' of the 21st Century will look different to that of the 20th. But also most importantly, how we can actually make any of this happen in the real world. 🤓 🏙️ 🫂

Last week AllChild hosted guests at Barlby Primary school for a candlelit evening of activity. Participants were able to move around classrooms to experience and interact with the work of some of our delivery partners, gaining an immersive perspective of our programmes. The evening also included a silent auction and we want to say a huge thank you to everyone that donated auction items for their support. The overall event was incredibly successful and we were able to raise a huge amount of vital funds to support our work for children and young people.