Ignite Life UK

Ignite Life is a charity that aims to help young people and their families overcome adversity. Ignite focuses on relieving the needs of disadvantaged and/or marginalised young people through supporting with wellbeing and mental-health, family support, addressing food poverty and economic inequality and educational support. We run three main services which aim to work collectively to provide the best possible support, these are counselling, mentoring and food delivery. Since launching in January 2021, Ignite Life has provided 34 disadvantaged young people with 1:1 counselling and demand keeps growing. We provide mental health support to those who, due to social disadvantage, too often slip through the net. In September 2021, Ignite Life launched a family support counselling programme which provides vulnerable families with professional mental health support to help overcome adversities and provide a tool kit to manage future crisis. Our mentoring service supports young people when they are not having their needs met elsewhere. Mentoring can be the only contact young people have outside their home due to not being in school, this allows young people to build safe relationships and challenge habits which may lead to crime and violence or further social exclusion. Our food delivery service supports families in food poverty. Disadvantage causes barriers for young people, causing challenges in education, employment, and social life. Food poverty can act as a barrier to achieving in other aspects of life and through our service we are able to alleviate this pressure and support families who need emergency care.