AllChild is a national charity working locally at the heart of our communities so every child and young person can access the right support and opportunities, in the right way, at the right time.
Our Vision
Our vision is simple: Together, every child and young person can flourish in their school and community.
Purpose
To get alongside children and young people and give them the time, space and support to build strong, lasting foundations; and to mobilise joined up ecosystems of support and opportunity with families, schools and local services coming together to deliver collaboratively to shared outcomes for the long-term.
Mission
To enable children and young people to build the trusted relationships, connections and skills they need to achieve positive social, emotional and academic outcomes so that they can take on life positively. To mobilise, embed and sustain early action systems of support and opportunity in our communities for the long-term.
Ambition
To enable a new way of investing in children’s futures in our communities and to build a movement for change led by AllChild Alumni voices, influencing systems at every level from local to regional to national.
Our Approach
Our place-based approach is rooted in:
- listening and co-design.
- early identification.
- trusted adult relationships.
- whole child/whole system support.
- joined-up communities.
Our Social Outcomes Partnerships are funded through a unique collective impact funding model. Each year we work with thousands of children and young people who participate in our Impact Programmes and in our Alumni leadership development and collective action, enabling wider impact across our communities. We continuously share learning and evidence.
What We Do
We mobilise and deliver tailored two-year Impact Programmes with children and young people, enabling an individual personalised journey of support for them. This structured programme helps them build the connections and skills they need to achieve positive social, emotional and academic outcomes.
At the heart of this programme are our dedicated Link Workers. Embedded in schools, they work closely with families, teachers and local partners, building trusted, long-term relationships with each child or young person and their families and acting as a springboard for further trusted relationships. These relationships ensure children feel seen, heard and supported, forming the foundation for positive steps in their social, emotional and academic life and ultimately flourishing into adulthood.
Alongside this, we collaborate with local services and charities to connect and strengthen the support that already exists in each community, enabling children and young people and their families to access the opportunities around them. Together, we create a coordinated early action network that helps build confidence, wellbeing and learning. Over time, we aim to embed our ways of working for a sustained early action ecosystem of support and opportunity in every place of work.
Our Impact in 2025
9,000 children in 15 communities have benefited from a 2-year Impact Programme.
In 2025:
- 98% of children complete their 2-year programme and remain in mainstream school.
- 75% of children at risk in social and/or emotional wellbeing moved out of risk.
- 75% of persistently absent children (below 90%) improved their school attendance and over half were no longer persistently absent.
Our model is designed to support children beyond their individual outcomes by generating positive benefits with their families, classrooms, community, and businesses in their local area. Our work connects everyone committed to childrens’ futures, building trust and strengthening early support systems as a whole.
We gather evidence to demonstrate the preventative impact of our model, observing how our Impact Programme outcomes can lead to longer-term benefits.
We know from our work in Brent, London, that after working with AllChild, 91% of children did not escalate to services such as Early Help, social care, or an Education, Health and Care plan (EHCP). This means we are able to identify challenges early and stop them developing into more critical need. New analysis from ATQ Consultants places the financial impact of our outcomes at £123,000 per child. This includes £20,000 in direct savings to schools and Local Authorities, as well as gains to society and the individual themselves.
We are continuously building our value case and our evidence base, aiming to share our learning in a blueprint for change so that every community can build its early action system of support and opportunity for children and young people. We are engaging at national, regional and local government levels to promote collaborative community level change to enable children to grow up well – it takes a village to raise a child.
Our Values
Our values guide how we work, how we show up for children, and how we partner with others. They reflect who we are, what we stand for, and the standards we hold ourselves to every day. Rooted in ambition, shaped by connection, and strengthened by trust, these values drive our decisions and our impact.
Our Funding
Our Social Outcomes Partnerships are funded through a unique collective impact funding model bringing together a blend of national and local public and private funding, philanthropy and social investment. This means we are not reliant on one source of funding alone and can provide more support with these parties together than any one of them on their own. This year, we are on course to achieve c. £8.6m in income, and our ambition for next year is to achieve £10m.
In the long term, we aim for a broad mix of mostly local funders who support us to help the children achieve better outcomes so that they have a stake in the transformation of their own community.
We work to ensure that every child gets on track socially, emotionally and academically – and we have designed our funding model in a way to help us deliver this. Our commissioners pay us in instalments over the course of a child’s two-year programme, when we provide evidence of their participation in the programme and their progress at the end. With payment explicitly tied to each individual, we are driven to achieve for every single child on our programme.