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🚀 Ready to Work is here! This FREE six-week course helps young people build confidence, sharpen their skills and take steps towards their dream job. 💼 Learn CV writing and interview tips 👷♂️ Gain experience and qualifications 🌍 Explore new opportunities beyond London Don’t miss out! Sign up or contact us to find out more. https://lnkd.in/exF6SduC #ReadyToWork #YouthEmpowerment #XLP

As Christmas approaches, we’re preparing to bring light to young Londoners, and we’d love you to come with us. Join us at these events! 𝗖𝗛𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗠𝗔𝗦 𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗭 Join us for a festive Christmas Quiz and make merry while making a difference! All entry pricing goes to support our work. We'll have a bar with drinks and free festive nibbles. Date: Tuesday, 3rd December Time: 6pm - 8pm Location: XLP Office by Liverpool Street Station Entry: £100 per team of four 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦' 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗙𝗔𝗦𝗧 Come and enjoy coffee, pastries, and inspiring stories about XLP's impact from our CEO, Luke Watson, and some youth workers. Date: Wednesday, 11th December Time: 8am - 9am Location: XLP Office by Liverpool Street Entry: Free We look forward to celebrating the Christmas season with you! (Sorry for the typo! *Breakfast with XLP) Book in by emailing Tim Sledge at tim.sledge@xlp.org.uk

London’s suspension rates reveal significant educational inequalities. Students from Roma, Gypsy, and Traveller of Irish Heritage backgrounds face the highest suspension rates of any ethnic group in London. Additionally, students eligible for free school meals in Bexley are four times more likely to be suspended than those in Tower Hamlets. These disparities reflect the systemic barriers that prevent many students from accessing the opportunities they need to reach their full potential. That’s why we’re proud to have supported organisations such as XLP and First Story who do vital work to help students reconnect with learning. Read our full research report here: https://lnkd.in/e_Wu3snR

Amazing! Thank you so much for celebrating us!!

It was a privilege to be invited to attend BGIS UK & Europe Supplier Innvation Day! It was awesome to meet new connections. Wish I could’ve stayed till the end. I love the charity partnership with XLP who are making a difference in young people’s lives! Kudos to Elle Watts, Gary Bullen Nick Spearman Andrew Hammond CIWFM Paul Willson for organising #Networking #Innovation #Technology #Learning #Growing 📹 My highlights 🙂

What a fantastic event we had yesterday, our Supplier Innovation Day was such a success! We managed to connect great businesses and people while supporting a great cause like XLP .

Julia Rausing Trust is pleased to announce £7.2 million in grants to 17 literacy and education charities across the country. The largest grant, of £2.4 million, has been made to the National Literacy Trust’s Libraries for Primaries campaign, launched with a mission to ensure every primary school in the UK has a library or dedicated library space for its children. The Julia Rausing Trust has also announced today a £1 million grant to the charity AllChild and its Early Intervention School Links Programme, a targeted early intervention programme that provides additional opportunities and support to children according to their individual needs. The grant will help fund the programme’s Link Workers across 37 schools, who build trusted relationships with children, families, and schools to provide each child with a wrap-around package of support. Another £758,930 grant has been made to Action Tutoring to support its small group tutoring for disadvantaged pupils, an initiative helping young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve more through the support of passionate volunteer tutors. The grant will enable and empower Action Tutoring to bolster their delivery across their Northern, Northwest and South West hubs, with an ambition to help positively impact the lives and futures of over 1,000 children and young people over a three-year period. Simon Fourmy, Director of the Julia Rausing Trust, said: “Julia Rausing was a passionate supporter of children and young people’s charities. She believed it was vital that all children had access to books, specialist care and after school clubs, whether at inner city schools or isolated rural areas. These grants have been made to continue her legacy of helping young people across the country.”  Commenting on the donation, Jonathan Douglas CBE, Hon FRSL, CEO of the National Literacy Trust, said: “…We are absolutely delighted to be extending our partnership with The Julia Rausing Trust, and enabling more children, across the UK, to benefit from access to books and the opportunity to develop a vital, life-long love of reading.” Selected charities also include School-Home Support, QEST - Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust, Football Beyond Borders, XLP, Royal National Children's SpringBoard Foundation, The ClementJames Centre, Bloomsbury Football, World Book Day Charity, The Country Trust, Magic Breakfast, Ebony Horse Club, Youth Sport Trust, Read for Good, and P3 Charity (People Potential Possibilities). https://lnkd.in/eB2qirTc

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 We are thrilled to announce that XLP has received a transformative grant of £300,000 over 3 years from the Julia Rausing Trust to support our Exclusion Reduction Programme, keeping young people in school and away from negative choices. This incredible support will empower us to continue making a difference in the lives of young people, making sure they have the resources and opportunities to thrive. A massive thank you to the Julia Rausing Trust for believing in our mission and helping us create ripples of change across London. #ThankYou #Gratitude #EducationRecovery #YouthWork #ChangingLives #Partnership

We were just on United Christian Broadcasters radio talking about this! Makes us so proud of our youth workers who continuously work even though storms rage in the lives of young people. ❤️

What does it feel like to be in the middle of a storm? While we're making waves in the lives of young people, we're navigating the storms of political and economic turbulence. We recognise the Government's desire to develop its relationship with charities like XLP and some of the steps it has taken in the recent budget to support those less advantaged in society. However, raising National Insurance contributions have added considerable pressure, placing an additional burden of around £1.4bn onto the Charity Sector. For XLP, this will mean finding over £60,000 extra each year - the cost of two youth workers. Inevitably, this will also impact individuals, companies and trusts and foundations, and their ability to donate. And just as the funding pool shrinks, we are also witnessing many funders pausing grants due to limited resources or being oversubscribed. As this storm builds, we’re facing choppy waters in the ongoing delivery of the work on the ground with young people. This week is National Youth Work Week, a time to spotlight and celebrate youth workers. These incredible people, at XLP and all around the country, provide trusted relationships, mentoring, safe spaces, and guidance for young people facing storms of their own, including financial hardship, incredibly tough home lives, and social exclusion. In these turbulent times, your support makes all the difference. So whilst we say thank you to the youth workers, we say thank you to you because every donation helps us keep delivering vital services, provide stability, and create transformation across London. #YouthWorkWeek