Flourish Mentors is a grassroots charity embedded in a 70+ volunteer community supporting young women (16-25 yrs). LIFT is a year-long leadership programme co-created with and for marginalised young women. Six young women would gain real skills, a dedicated keyworker, workshops and work-experience.
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The young women we serve face compounding disadvantage: 74% have a mental health condition, over 50% are care-experienced or young carers, and over 50% identify as LGBTQIA+. NHS data (2024) confirms the wider crisis: 36.1% of women aged 16–24 live with a mental health condition, more than double the rate for young men. At 16+, mental health and school support are not adapted to youth! Lack of flexible and personalised, aspirational supports exist to not only help them cope, but dream bigger!
LIFT delivers a year-long, bespoke leadership programme for 6 young women aged 16–25: half ring-fenced for care-experienced and young carers. Co-created with our intergenerational Community, every participant receives an individualised plan built around their dreams, field and constraints. Each young future leader would have a dedicated weekly key-worker session and 5 shared community events connect participants across business, creative industries and NGOs. LIFT is not one programme: it's six!
