The Chances programme is an evidence-based sport and activity programme which embraces influences from the sport, youth work and criminal justice sectors and is defined by a purposeful intention to change, rather than simply manage, young people’s behaviour and lives.
The programme will work with a minimum of 130 young people aged 8 to 17 each year of the project with the aim of delivering on the below objectives:
- Increasing participation in physical activity
- Improving School Attendance
- Reducing Not in Education, Employment or Training status
- Reducing Offending and Reoffending
40 of the young people who are worked with on the programme each year will be referred by Middlesbrough BC, Hartlepool BC, Stockton Council and Redcar & Cleveland Local Authorities. Referrals will be pre reviewed by a member of the Cleveland Police Complex Exploitation Team before being made. These young people will receive a targeted intervention. The remaining 100 young people each year will be attracted via more universal provision.
The Chances Programme is a Social Impact Bond, which uses social finance to fund the achievement of social outcomes. Commissioners pay for outcomes which are successfully achieved and this in turn is used to repay the social financer.
The Social Investor Big Issue Invest provide the capital for the programme. If the targeted outcomes are met Big Issue Invest will be reimbursed through a payment by results model, funded jointly by Sport England, Hartlepool Local Authority, Middlesbrough Local Authority, Redcar and Cleveland local Authority, Stockton Local Authority, the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cleveland, and Life Chances Fund (DCMS) which is used to subsidise the local commissioners. The value of the project’s outcomes is £85,500.
Substance will manage the programme which will be delivered by Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation who receives £59,750 per year to deliver the project.
The OPCC contribution to the funding will be £10,000 per year and will be linked to the improving school attendance, reducing youth offending and improving NEET status outcomes.
Decision 2020-00268483 – Chances Programme – MFC Foundation Targeted Work (application, 199kB)