The Mohn Westlake Foundation is partnering with the Quartet Community Foundation to ease the transition from primary into secondary school for children in the Hartcliffe area, with a focus on building children’s aspirations and tackling anti-social behaviour.

This place-based funding programme is aimed at improving educational outcomes for young people in Hartcliffe. A grant of £59,987 has been awarded to Hartcliffe & Withywood Community Partnership (HWCP) for the Hareclive place-based Social Action Transition Programme, working with children as they move from primary school into secondary school.

Established in the late 1990s, HWCP is a community partnership which supports local regeneration work. HWCP is working with the local primary school and South Bristol Youth to deliver this programme, and this partnership will also be drawing on the expertise of several other relevant local organisations including Room 13, Access Sport, LPW and Wesport.

The programme is developing and coordinating a set of community-led youth service activities that aim to raise the aspirations of young people and tackle anti-social behaviour. Learning from models around the country, particularly those in West London and ‘Relationships Matter’ in Hartlepool, the programme involves supporting families, targeted work with specific young people identified as being at risk, and volunteer-led youth activities to test and learn how this can have a beneficial impact on attendance, confidence and attainment at secondary school.

Most of the funding will be used for two workers to coordinate youth and sports activities and work with 24 targeted young people in the first year of the programme. The grant is also being used as match funding for £70,000 per year over three years from the Big Lottery and DCMS Place Based Social Action Programme, which the Hartcliffe area was successful in securing – in part due to the confidence shown by other funders including The Mohn Westlake Foundation.

The Quartet Community Foundation aims to bring people together and improve lives by supporting small groups and charities in Bath, North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

To learn more about this project, please visit the grantees website: quartetcf.org.uk