Hanover Foundations is a not-for-profit social enterprise with charitable status. Our work is in much demand, but we need support to make it affordable for educational and youth organisations.
Costing just a few hundred pounds per young person, this is a highly cost-effective way of closing the social gap, enabling young people to transform their own lives. Our proven methods, based on established business practices, consistently improve behaviour and dramatically raise motivation and achievement.
Hanover’s programmes represent superb value for money. A 2007 survey by New Philanthropy Capital found that mentoring schemes using volunteers (unpaid) regularly cost up to six times more than Hanover’s coaching programmes (we use paid professionals).
We are proud to keep our management costs low and spend over 85% of our income directly on delivery to young people – a figure that compares very favourably with administration-heavy volunteer schemes, and indeed with the charity sector as a whole.
Costing just a few hundred pounds per young person, this is a highly cost-effective way of closing the social gap, enabling young people to transform their own lives. Our proven methods, based on established business practices, consistently improve behaviour and dramatically raise motivation and achievement.
Preventive measures Hanover coaching is consistently proven to raise engagement in education, employment and training, reduce anger and anxiety, improve self-esteem and confidence. It is of course impossible to prove any of the additional preventive effects that it has, such as reducing offending, however the link is a logical one. The UK currently sends more 18-29 year olds to prison than to University. At a cost of £35,000 per year, how much does it save the community to have early intervention? |
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Hanover’s programmes represent superb value for money. A 2007 survey by New Philanthropy Capital found that mentoring schemes using volunteers (unpaid) regularly cost up to six times more than Hanover’s coaching programmes (we use paid professionals).
We are proud to keep our management costs low and spend over 85% of our income directly on delivery to young people – a figure that compares very favourably with administration-heavy volunteer schemes, and indeed with the charity sector as a whole.
Demand means we are growing rapidly, now reaching over 5,000 young people per year, but this hardly scratches the surface. The areas most in need of our service are those that can least afford it, therefore we are constantly in need of matched funding from charitable trusts and foundations, private philanthropists and corporate donations to enable our work to happen.
| CIPD survey findings suggest that four-fifths of organisations now use coaching to help their business become more competitive. Hanover was set up by a successful company, GHN, so corporate support for our work has always been strong. Hanover’s supporters have included: |
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 My personal experience of Hanover enables me to talk with confidence about the rigor of their approach… I feel sure you will be inspired to support their fantastic work. Ed Williams, Head of Corporate Responsibility, Marks & Spencer What Hanover offers is innovative and completely different to the mentoring model. The key differentiator is the precision in eliciting, and in long term support of, positive behaviour change.Charitable Trust |
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We need your support, to help our work continue and grow. Support could take the form of: Sponsorship – of things like publications, research, events or newsletters. Donations – to help fund our coaching programmes in disadvantaged areas. Gifts in kind – e.g. printing a publication in house, providing a venue and refreshments for an event, or providing equipment. Payroll giving – offer support for Hanover as an option on your company’s payroll giving scheme and promote our work through newsletters etc. Staff involvement – providing opportunities such as interview practice or shop-floor experience for a group of our young clients helps their career chances as well as developing your staff morale & skills. |
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We are deeply grateful to all those individuals and organisations who have funded us in the past, and continue to fund us as we grow.
Trusts and Foundations supporting our work have included:-
