Charity Case Studies
These are just a few of the stories from the 20+ charities we support each year. Watch the videos, read the personal stories and understand why our riders get such a huge sense of achievement from fundraising for WWMT.
AllChild
AllChild’s vision is that, if we all work together, every child and young person can flourish in their school and community. Current support systems are stretched and siloed meaning children fall through the cracks.
AllChild identifies children and young people in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities who could benefit most from early support, building trust and joining up the system around them so that they engage with meaningful opportunities – taking proactive steps to prevent challenges before they arise, rather than reacting after they do. Through their tailored 2-year Impact Programmes, AllChild enables children and young people to the build the relationships and skills they need to achieve positive social, emotional and academic outcomes.
‘We are incredibly grateful of The William Wates Memorial Trust’s generous support of AllChild, as we know that incredible things can happen when we work together, but it really does take all of us – schools, local and central government, charities and community groups, philanthropic partners. This is the AllChild network – everyone with a stake in children growing up well’. – Louisa Mitchell, CEO, AllChild
The William Wates Memorial Trust provided a £20,000 grant to AllChild, which has supported delivery of the Impact Programme with children and young people aged 4-16 in London.
Free to be Kids
Free to Be Kids uses the outdoors, adventure and psychologically informed youthwork to transform the mental health of particularly vulnerable young Londoners experiencing immense challenge – parental addiction, neglect, abuse, poverty and homelessness, which have resulted in emotional/behavioural difficulties at school or home.
We support young people whose childhoods have left them feeling different, unwanted, excluded and alone, to instead experience themselves as brave, talented, belonging and successful. Children who’ve never left their area of London before and whose school lives give them repeated messages of failure/low self-worth, instead lead night walks through the woods (leadership, responsibility), work in teams to canoe down rivers (teamwork, problem solving), or climb a hill for the first time (broadened horizons, resilience) creating a vastly healthier psychological story about oneself.
Once we’ve built trusting relationships with hard-to-reach children round the campfire, we then bridge the highest need into our longterm support programmes: 1:1 mentoring, our Young Leaders Programme, or our 18 month intensive Thrive Journey Programme.
Ultimately our programmes work to rebuild the foundations of positive mental health: confidence, resilience, social problem solving skills, and belief in the power of their own potential, for London’s most disadvantaged children.
WWMT have granted £30,000 over 3 yrs to the Thrive Journey Programme.
Youth Adventure Trust
Youth Adventure Trust (YAT) introduce Year 7 to 9 pupils from Wiltshire to outdoor adventure through a series of adventure camps and day activities that take place over 3 years.
YAT believes that all vulnerable young people should have access to personal development opportunities so that they can fulfil their potential in the future.
As part of that, they understand that learning in an outdoor environment is a key part of a young person’s development. Furthermore, they have seen how a long-term, early intervention, starting at age 11, successfully equips young people with the hope, confidence, skills and resilience that will last a lifetime.
One Headmaster from Warminster said of the YAT programme:
“It turned Daniel around from a boy at risk of permanent exclusion to a boy thoroughly engaged with his schoolwork who is now a pleasure to teach”.
