‘Inspiring healthier living and lifestyles by changing and creating resilient youth & communities’
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT US
Turning Interest Into Action
Dealing with the challenges of today, requires problem-solvers. We bring different perspectives to helping young people, children and families in your communities.
Fighting Chance Communities CIC (Community Interest Company), emerged out of a pursuit to inspire and support communities youth with a desire for actions to speak louder than words, through our team's own real life and lived experiences of positive lifestyle changes that aims to influence young people to do the same.
Established in 2019, we’re a 'community interest company' driven by progressive ideas, bold actions and a strong foundation of support.
Our community youth development initiatives focus on
crime reduction strategies and community safety that can be affected by anti-social issues .
'We are here to change this'
We deliver educational talks and interactive role play sessions for youth development initiatives covering subject matters concerning the issues with; knife crime, gun crime, gang affiliation activities, child exploitation, grooming for county lines drug trafficking,
substance misuse & awareness.
We discuss crime and the impact and consequences to perpetrators as well as victims with youth groups in a way to change preconceptions of being involved in such activities, giving the notion to 'think twice'.
Our aim is to deter young people from crime into focusing more on positive personal growth developments and activities that will empower each individual person to change direction to a better sustainable future, that improves quality of life.
Fighting Chance Communities CIC, is a non-profit organisation, set up for social purpose committed to working with youth centres, community groups, pupil referral units, schools & colleges in and around Manchester & Greater Manchester areas.
Our youth development programmes have proven to be successful in inner city areas with evident changes in behavioural patterns of criminal and anti-social activities in communities. We help enable youths to reform and evolve with an awareness that will help them live and lead safer healthier moral and ethical lifestyles, that will promote positive mindset goals for their future educational achievements to success in future career developments and general wellbeing in life.
FCC CIC focuses on strengthening people within communities by helping to provide activities and services which meet peoples and communities needs.
We commit to invest our programmes that are close to becoming sustainable and meet the needs of people with local support, to help them achieve well-being initiatives independently
Please don't hesitate to contact us about helping you and working alongside your cause to help develop the young people of today, with an aim to help communities build a better, brighter, resilient future together.
Best regards
David Maylett
Fighting Chance C.I.C team
WHO WE ARE
Our Roots
Here at Fighting Chance Communities CIC, we know that sometimes all it takes to change the world is a little support from people who understand the problems in todays society that surrounds us. Since our founding in 2019, we have been delivering quality projects and programmes that educates for reductions in knife crime, gang crime, drugs, violence, substance abuse, child exploitation and other anti-social behaviour issues. Teaching ways to keep safe and stay away from crime and understand how to make simple positive lifestyle changes.
Our team are real life experienced coaches & guest ex-criminal speakers, whom have turned their lives around, have educated, delivered and inspired young people for many years in schools, pupil referral units, colleges and youth centres in Manchester and Greater Manchester with our efforts supported by local councils and GMP.
We are determined to continue making a positive impact on our youth culture. The core of our efforts is to bring our communities & young people new thoughts and ideas to change ways of thinking towards making wiser choices and decisions in life.
We have a passion to delivering a range of programmes and activities that we’re involved in. Through all of our endeavours, we display the conviction behind our proven experiences and beliefs that we are able to help build more resilient people in our communities.
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
Bringing Real Positive Change To Youth & Communities
Fighting Chance Communities CIC is also an organisation committed to promoting healthy living and lifestyles, with fitness training and well being strategies, that help with adopting a physical and mental endurance, toughness and resilience, through a number of different channels for our young people to develop a positive mindset in life.
The overall expected personal behavioural outcomes from each individual is for them to have a physical and mental competence and awareness that will help them live and lead a safer, healthier lifestyle that will in turn have a positive impact on their goals for their future educational success in career developments and general wellbeing.
FCC CIC focuses on strengthening people within communities by helping to provide activities and services which meet peoples and communities needs. We commit to invest our programmes into communities that are close to becoming sustainable and meet the needs of the people with our support, to help them achieve initiatives independently.
We work with anyone within the community of any age/ability in order to:
• Deliver quality projects which will encourage communities to adopt and develop healthier lifestyle choices through bespoke activities, that will promote mental and physical wellbeing within socially and economically deprived areas of Greater Manchester.
• A commitment to changing social attitudes and habits that will incorporate healthy living into everyday life.
• To ensure that all present and future participants receive fair and equal treatment.
• To ensure that our mission statement is delivered in everything we do.
Mission Statement
‘‘To inspire healthier living and lifestyles by changing and creating resilient communities’
Contact us to learn more and get involved.
Thank you for interest, and we look forward to speaking with you and your organisation soon.
Best regards
David
TACKLING AND PREVENTING KNIFE CRIMES
Educating young people about impact and consequence of knife crimes
At Fighting Chance Communities CIC, we are dedicated to stepping up our efforts in addressing this issue. It is by no means an easy feat, but through cooperation, action and community empowerment, we have evident success from our previous work with youngsters in the community, and believe we can facilitate knife crime prevention in your area too. We are always striving to make a difference, and invite you to learn more and lend your support to your community.
ANTI-BULLYING AND BULLYPROOF PROGRAMME
Helping Young people in Community To Build confidence and resilience
Our aim is to bring down barriers and teach young people to become empowered by their own abilities and gain the confidence to fulfil their potential.
Our priority is to empower young people mentally and physically by helping to build up their confidence and self esteem to face and stand up to some of life’s challenges.
We want young people to believe in themselves, step up to situations with confidence and not let fear or self-doubt hold them back and achieve more, develop better relationships, make the most of their talents and opportunities in life.
We help young people be at ease in their own mind & body in ways that enables them to interact more confidently with others and not have them being or feeling like a victim of bullying or anti-social behaviour from others.
We are here to help develop personal street-safe awareness skills that are useful and often necessary in socially challenging and ‘street life’ environments. Our ‘Bully proof and street safe’ education programme is delivered by an experienced team of self defence and physical education coaches that provide methods exercise instruction to help encourage young peoples physical and mental behaviours in a way to help one conducts oneself or act towards others.
Our holistic approach to instilling a strong mental & physical assertive attitude is by way of teaching functional fitness exercises and instinctive patterns of movements that are used in every day life and can be used to protect themselves and their well being.
Learn more about our Anti-bullying programme by getting in touch with our team today.
TEEN SUBSTANCE MISUSE & RISKS TO HEALTH
Our team is also at hand to help our youth to understand the consequential impact of substance abuse and the effects on themselves, families, friends, domestic relationships, your communities and the entire society we live in together.
We are here to help discourage our youth from being coerced, or tricked into transporting drugs across communities by educating them about the consequences and criminal penalties and deter those who are curious about being involved in this common recreational and gang related activity, and prevent them from alluring to the harmful drug and substance abuse that often can lead to more serious crimes and other issues such as death, overdose and an array of further problems such as academic difficulties, other health-related problems, (including brought on mental health issues from drug and substance misuse), poor peer and domestic relationships, imprisonment and involvement with the juvenile criminal systems.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND MENTAL ABUSE
At Fighting Chance Communities CIC we promote Domestic abuse initiatives to serve the people and children who need them most. We believe in taking action with urgency in order to raise individual and public awareness about some of the most pressing issues facing today’s society and that we can make peoples lives better by making a difference to each individual Please join us by supporting our efforts and speaking to one of our team to help make a measurable difference in the lives of others.
Our aim
Changing beliefs and attitudes about men and women;
Challenging assumptions about gender and power;
Managing feelings and accepting responsibility for one’s own feelings and behaviour;
Helping to resolve conflict;
Helping young people to knowing the difference between abusive and non-abusive relationships;
Communicating consistently the message that abuse is not acceptable;
Helping young people to understand that abuse is a crime;
Highlighting the role of peers in providing support;
Giving information about where to get help.
FUN FITNESS TRAINING & PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BENEFITS TO SOCIAL HEALTH
'Functional, Practical & Reactive'
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Increased confidence, peer acceptance, leadership skills and empathy;
these are just four of the social benefits children receive from being involved with sports and physical activities.
We see every challenge as an opportunity and this initiative helps us ensure that our young people are better prepared to manage themselves and unique situations they find themselves in. We are invested in an innovative approach that empowers young people in communities and deliver the support they need, when they need it.
SUPPORT SERVICES
Through our Support Services, we have the potential to make a real and positive change in communities. This is one of our key areas of focus here at Fighting Chance Communities CIC, and a source of much success for our Non-Profit Organisation. Get in touch with us today and see how you can lend a helping hand with this program.
Find out more about these and other programs we support.
CONTACT FIGHTING CHANCE COMMUNITIES CIC
Get in touch with Fighting Chance Communities CIC to learn more about our work and how you can get involved.
West Didsbury
Manchester 20
