Addison Youth Club

Addison Youth Club is an independent grant-making charity with a founding mission to foster holistic development—physical, intellectual, social, emotional, and spiritual—for local children and young people, empowering them to reach their full potential through community opportunities. Core values emphasize preventative youth work, personal growth, and sector strengthening via strategic philanthropy, transitioning from direct services to endowment-backed grants that enable frontline charities to deliver tailored interventions. Their impact approach prioritizes ecosystem building, partnering with local youth organizations for evidence-based, community-led solutions addressing root causes of disadvantage.

They fund youth development programs promoting educational advancement, skills training, social inclusion, and wellbeing for children and young people aged 8-25, including holiday activity schemes and after-school clubs, transition groups for 8-11 year olds navigating primary-to-secondary shifts, anti-knife crime workshops preventing youth violence, support sessions for young women at risk of sexual exploitation, coercion, and domestic abuse, and targeted projects for refugee and migrant youth facing unemployment, addiction, mental health crises, family breakdown, and isolation. Supported interventions encompass cooking skills programs building independence, peer support groups fostering emotional resilience, preventative outreach tackling multiple disadvantages, therapeutic activities enhancing confidence, mentoring for employability, creative arts and sports for social connection, and family support services addressing carer needs and domestic violence recovery, with emphasis on trauma-informed, holistic, person-centred approaches delivered by grassroots providers.

Exclusions include capital grants for buildings or infrastructure, funding individuals, research-only projects, national advocacy, or non-local work. Distinctive priorities target Hammersmith & Fulham's local youth facing compounded challenges like migration trauma, violence risks, mental health struggles, and family crises, favoring registered charities and CICs affiliated with youth networks demonstrating rigorous impact monitoring, unrestricted core support for sustainability, and collaboration among frontline groups serving multiple-disadvantage young people in tight-knit urban communities.