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 and services.

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 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

This Fund is dedicated to continuing the work of Michael Varah, a Chief Probation Officer and charity founder. The Fund supports charities working in the areas of disadvantage and social exclusion, crime prevention (including rehabilitation work with ex-offenders), homelessness and poverty, and human rights.

Our Employment & Education project has benefited from this Fund.

This trust supports our Training services.

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.

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.

The Community Foundation for Surrey aims to inspire more giving in Surrey. Since its foundation in 2005 the foundation's donors have enabled it to award £2.3 million in 839 grants to support local organisations, benefiting thousands of people.

The Foundation contributes to our family mediation service (part of Youth AIMS), which helps homeless and disadvantaged young people, usually aged 16/18 years old, to seek either a return to their family home, or to provide support for a successful transition into independent living.

The Wates Foundation is an independent grant-making Family Trust that has been supporting the charitable and voluntary sector for almost 50 years. Its trustees and committee members are drawn exclusively from the Wates Family.

Support from the Wates Foundation enables "Don't Bottle it!", our Female-only Anger Managment programme, to continue helping young women to understand anger, its triggers and to develop self-awareness and strategies for controlling their temper and managing other people's. The programme is delivered through group sessions and one-to-one reviews with support workers.