At Young Potential we have a simple aim...

We believe that young people who grow up facing poverty, poor living conditions, neglect, abuse and insecurity should still get the best of chances to get an education and a job so that they can have a better future and not rely on crime and drugs in order to survive as adults.

We believe that disability and discrimination is not something that should stop someone enjoying and achieving their dreams.

Our simple aim is to work with people to help them make sense of the things that happen to them and around them so that they can use their unique experiences to build a life worth living.

Our Vision-

Every young person has a future

Programmes and Activities-

Since 1999 we have been working directly with YOUNG PEOPLE who face great challenges in their lives because of poverty, neglect, crime, drugs or exclusion. We also work with adults who they come into contact with, including their families, professional workers and other people who live in their local communities, because these are the people who can make or break the life chances of these vulnerable young people.

We centre our work around developing emotional resilience, helping people to understand and then cope better with the way that they feel about the situations that they find themselves in. Then we work on developing empathy, understanding and a sense of responsibility so people start to see that what they do affects others, and in turn, affects the way others see them.

We find that once the young people start to feel better about themselves, they start to treat other people better, then start to care about the people and places around them, and before long they are wanting to get back to school, 'sort themselves out' and look forward to the sort of future that everyone would wish for our children. A good number of the young people that we work with go on to become volunteers in their own communities, giving up a considerable amount of their own free time to help make life better for others. We are proud to be an organisation that believes in young people and in their future.

Our specialist work with DISABLED AND VULNERABLE ADULTS, including those with learning difficulties and those with enduring mental ill health started in 2007 and became one of our core charitable objectives in 2008.