PROJECT
GROWING FUTURES
WHAT IS IT?
Exclusion from school can often feel like a dead end—but Growing Futures offers an alternative route. Using a focused deterrence model, we work with young people who are disengaged from mainstream education, combining therapeutic outdoor learning with long-term mentorship. Through activities like gardening, farming, and environmental projects, young people build confidence, resilience, and the practical skills needed for future employment. Our mentors form lasting, supportive relationships, ensuring young people feel valued and capable of pursuing education, apprenticeships, or work after the PRU.
The growing futures project aims to help young people who have been marginalised by the mainstream school system to build a prosperous future as a pro-social member of wider society.
The growing futures project will help to rebuild and renew young people by demonstrating to them that they matter and showing them what life should be like.
In partnership with Links Academy St Albans, Pupil Referral Unit, we will help young people who are vulnerable to becoming trapped in vicious life cycles.
HOW DO WE DO THIS?
8 Young People will join our co-designed programme each term based full time at the PRU, it looks like this..
Working alongside our partner farm, young people will grow a variety of seasonal fruits and vegetables at the PRU.
Every month, young people will visit our partner farm to gain perspective on where our food comes from and take part in some of the daily tasks.
At the end of each term, young people will participate in an ‘enterprise week’ where they will work alongside trained chef’s to use the food they have grown to produce a meal for their family & friends at our partner restaurant in Amersham.