Funding Partners

The Supporting People programme offers vulnerable people the opportunity to improve their quality of life by providing a stable environment which enables greater independence. Working in partnership with local authorities, service users and support agencies (such as Step by Step), its aim is to deliver strategic, high quality, reliable housing-related services to complement existing care services.

Supporting People provide funding for several of our projects.

The Drinkaware Trust is an independent UK-wide body that aims to change public behaviour and the national drinking culture positively, to help reduce alcohol misuse and minimise alcohol-related harm.

Among other activities, it engages with drinks producers, retailers, Government and other stakeholders to promote its campaigns, and contributes education and prevention resources to tackle alcohol-related harms.

The Trust support our Youth Development Projects.

Awards for All England is supported by the Arts Council England, the Big Lottery Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England. They award grants to enable people to participate in art, sport, heritage and community activities, and projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community.

The logo says it all! v exists to inspire a new generation of young volunteers (aged 16-25) in England and enable a lasting change in the quality, quantity and diversity of youth volunteering.

V are supporting our new Dr Al project.

BBC Children in Need needs no introduction: the annual extravaganza in November provides great entertainment and last year raised over £19 million for a wide variety of good causes.

Step by Step have received a grant spread over three years in support of our Daylight project

UFI Ltd (University for Industry) is the body behind the LearnDirect, which has a mission to use technology to transform the skills and employability of the working population, in order to improve the UK’s productivity.

UFI support our Cybershed project

The Triangle Trust
1949 Fund

The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund is a charity which makes grants for a variety of projects, including community arts and education.

Lankelly Chase award grants across a wide range of community projects, including support for the arts, developing communities, offenders, and refugees and asylum seekers.

Step by Step received a grant as part of Lankelly Chase's 'Breaking the cycle of Abusive relationships' initiative.

Part of the Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust, the Ann Rylands Special Project allocates funds to one particular charitable theme determined by the Trustees.

Our Entry to Employment project has benefited from this scheme

The Hyde Group is a leading provider of affordable housing, making a significant contribution to meeting housing needs and improving people's quality of life to over 100,000 people in London, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire.

Several of our accommodation units are owned and managed by them.

Connexions is a nationwide organisation supporting young people aged 13-19 in a wide variety of ways, including advice on jobs, relationships, legal rights and health.

This is done via the Connexions Direct website, and by local Connexions partnerships providing a physical presence, such as drop-in centres. The South Central partnership covers Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

This trust supports our Youth Development project.

Part of Hampshire County Council's Children's Services, the Hampshire Teenage Pregnancy Partnership vision is that by 2010, all young people in Hampshire will be well supported through education and high quality services so that they can make informed decisions about relationships, sex, parenthood and sexual health, whilst those who become teenage parents will be actively supported to reach their potential in society.

The Crime Prevention Panel have provided support for our Youth Development project

Although The Foyer Federation does not provide funding for Step by Step, it provides a valuable forum for sharing best practice and accessing funding, training and a range of support. It also provides a voice through which we can speak about the problems of homeless and disadvantaged people.

There are over 130 local Foyers supporting more than 10,000 homeless 16 to 25 year-olds each year, giving them a chance to realise their full potential. They enable young people at risk to escape the ‘no home-no job-no home’ cycle by delivering a holistic service that integrates accommodation with training, job search, personal support and motivation.