an INSPIRING youth charity
Location
Despite Cheltenham’s national reputation for affluence, it is also an area of challenging social circumstances. Local schools report high levels of pupils in receipt of free school meals, high levels of Health and care plans, and high levels of SEN support when compared with national average. (see
https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/compare-schools) Gloucestershire has a high level of NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) young people.
What difference can you make?
By supporting either a team member, a specific project or adding to general funds you will enable The Rock to continue providing exciting yet challenging activities to each young person we engage with.
Why support The Rock?
The Rock is a locally based registered charity that builds strong, lasting, working relationships with local young people. Our mission is to provide a safe space for young people to develop their spiritual, emotional and physical well-being. Regardless of their faith or background we offer challenging activities from urban street sports to essential life skills.
By supporting The Rock you are giving local young people the opportunity to create their own tool kit of skills and abilities, which they can use now and in the future.
Many of The Rocks skilled and experienced team work across both the daytime and evening work to enable consistency and continuity of support for young people.
Your support will enable this work to continue, The Rock to forward plan and create a sustainable facility for young people.
What do you receive?
With the advent of GDPR The Rock has modified its practise to ensure we only remain in contact with those people who agree to such contact. You may receive
-Our regular weekly update
-Our newsletter updating you on events, activities and opportunities.
You may also maintain contact through our Facebook page, Twitter and Instagram accounts.
-We have over 600 followers on Twitter (many of whom enjoy retweeting our feeds)
-Our Facebook posts regularly reach 200 views and our likes are ever increasing
-Our Instagram account has over 400 followers
The Rock has strong working relationships with the local media including; The Gloucestershire Echo, Radio Gloucestershire, Radio Winchcombe, various Cheltenham magazines and more. To see examples of The Rock in the news follow: