CHIPS Guildford
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CHIPS delivers fun, safe and stimulating school holiday play provision in the Ash, Stoke and Westborough wards of Guildford, that increases the confidence and self-esteem of vulnerable and disadvantaged primary children. It raises their aspirations, gets them active and improves their mental health.
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Four Barrows Foundation supported the CHIPS Olympic Games 2024 – where 302 children from local low income homes came for transformative play, respite full of fun, friendships, new activities - and lots of gold medals! Parents and carers reported across the board improvements in social skills, self-esteem and physical health and wellbeing.
Escapeline
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Thousands of children have been exploited through the practice of County Lines, in which highly organised urban gangs take over provincial drugs markets. Escapeline is a charity committed to the prevention of the criminal and sexual exploitation of young people across South West England.
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We supported this work with vulnerable children in Wiltshire, through targeted education, mentoring, classroom-based workshops, teaching protective strategies and signs to look out for. Escapeline’s youngest referral is aged just 6. ​
Delight​​
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Delight is an arts-based learning charity that works in partnerships with primary schools serving areas of high deprivation to create lasting change for children affected by disadvantage.
Funded by The Four Barrows Foundation a 6 week programme at Cordwalles Junior School, Camberly drew children into a magical world of dance storytelling; building a love of movement and self-expression, strengthening teamwork, and increasing engagement with literacy learning.
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Benarty Primary School
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This is our second year supporting Benarty School in Fife who have a high proportion of Care Experienced children, Young Carers and those with additional support or learning needs.
We help Benarty run several initiatives.
A breakfast club - a “soft start” to the day for young people transitioning from very difficult circumstances into the learning environment.
Weekly cooking lessons teach the children to make wholesome meals using recipe cards they can take home and use again with the adults or other siblings responsible for feeding the family. And teach table setting so the family sit down and eat together.
Out of school activities like swimming, sailing, indoor climbing, kayaking and dog training.
SOME OF OUR CURRENT PROJECTS ...
YouthSpace
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YouthSpace (formerly Linlithgow Young People’s Project) has worked for 34 years with thousands of young people through many projects and activities and today works across West Lothian. Over the past year we helped in the provision of a worker dedicated to the running of the programme in Bridgend (in the bottom 20% on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation), and day trips and community drop-in groups for young people of primary school age.
“I was bullied at school in year 5 … YouthSpace got me through … a safe space to have fun … my mental health was bad and being active helped me feel more positive."
