Donna Sinclair
Chief Executive Officer
Message from the Options 4 Change CEO:
Since 2005, we have successfully delivered services which include education, social welfare, personal development, employability and pathways from crime for children and young people.
Our projects and programmes are designed and delivered with the input of our service users and delivery partners. We provide support and personal development via our workshops which are used to raise awareness, facilitate peer support, mentor, and help our service users along with their parents to access and engage with a range of professional services to address problems and social issues impacting on their lives.
We continously work to resolve the problems that our service users are experiencing including;
Destitution
Homelessness, overcrowding and disrepair
Education sustainment and school’s exclusions
Youth offending
Children in need
Social engagement and recreation
Our activities are designed and facilitated to enable our service users to lead more meaningful lives. Positive outcomes for our service users are evidenced and are linked to research, planning and the evaluation of our services delivery and their impact.
Diversity and inclusion are at the centre of everything we do. This focus has helped us to reduce disadvantage and has secured inclusion, diversity and better futures for over 3,500 service users and their families since 2005. Our partners, staff, volunteers, trustees and members work in-house as well as on community initiatives. This helps us to build our services and organisations' capacity in many aspects.
Through our work we have identified that destitution issues are mostly linked to matters such as benefits including Universal Credit and sometimes non - benefit entitlements. Local food banks are an important resource which help us to address hunger caused by ongoing cycles of poverty. Our evaluations and service users' feed-back on their experience of benefits and other financial challenges have consistently shown a distinct lack of resources in their communities to empower them to resolve the impact of poverty on their lives.
In addition we continue to extend our reach through word of mouth and the recommendations of our service users and partners. 75% of our service users live in Lambeth, the rest live in other parts of the country including Leeds, Coventry and Birmingham. Regardless of where they live the issues are quite similar.
We are “changing lives and minds for better"
If you have any queries or would like further information on what we do or how to support us, please contact us on
020 8696 0900 or via email to info@options4change.org.uk
“Options 4 Change and Donna have got him back into school and that’s made me so happy. Without them I don’t know where we’d be by now.”
Options 4 Change contribute to various aspects of community liaison, outreach, contact and partnership projects
