The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2023 has begun! From 12pm today (28 November), every donation we receive via our campaign page will be matched for one week. So, for every £1 you donate, we will receive £2!
This year we’re aiming to raise an ambitious £80,000 to reach more young people with our life changing programmes, across more prisons and Young Offenders Institutions, and beyond London.
Our programmes help restore young peoples’ hope, and equips them with the skills and mindset needed to build a bright future, away from crime. There is real appetite from young people for this work: our staff have waiting lists in each prison of young people interested in taking part, and participants regularly give up their social time to take part in the programme.
“Spark Inside, they helped me by teaching me the value of myself and seeing that I’m my own hero. Watching movies, you see that the hero never gives up, they have hope and no matter what you’re going through and where you are, regardless of what it is, doing the Hero’s Journey taught me to be my hero and my hero never gave up, and what they wanted they always got…. You should never give up – so regardless of the situation you gotta keep on fighting, you gotta keep on swimming.”
- Donell, 23, Hero’s Journey participant
Over the years, the Big Give Christmas Challenges have been instrumental in supporting Spark Inside to grow, innovate and deliver high quality programmes to more and more young people. The money we have raised has enabled us to fund the pilot of our Black Hero’s Journey programme, to develop and enhance our systems coaching programme, The Conversation, and contributed to the essential, core running costs of Spark Inside, which enabled us to support over 1500 people living and working in prisons.
Please click here to donate today to contribute to a brighter future for young people leaving prison!
