Hope in Haringey

Hope in Haringey – rooted in Tottenham enriches the lives of young people between the ages of 4 and 24 across Haringey through its four core programmes of Counselling, Mentoring, Youth and Police Engagement.

We work to improve Haringey’s community resilience and improve its cohesion despite being one of Britain’s most volatile urban areas.

Our staff are local residents who are experienced in their relative fields and use their extensive social capital to strengthen our volunteer base. This allows Hope in Haringey to deliver high-impact projects and services whilst also representing excellent value, making us the perfect social investment opportunity.

Youth

Hope in Haringey delivers a range of inclusive arts and sports projects across the borough.

Sessions are designed to include boys and girls across a range of different abilities and sports including football, basketball, gaming and more.

Artistically, we collaborate with local professionals, schools and colleges for the purpose of creating and showcasing student talen at public events.

Currently, we are working towards a photographic exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall for 2025 in collaboration with Haringey Music Service.

Counselling

The equivalent of 33 days per week of early intervention, one-to-one counselling is delivered to 27 primary and secondary schools in Haringey for children and teenagers experiencing emotional, social and psychological difficulties.

Working with more than 400 students a year, each student receives a term’s worth of face-to-face sessions with a counsellor.  Where appropriate, counsellors also engage with whole classes, teachers and families, with many running drop-in lunchtime services also.

For more information contact counselling@hopeinharingey.com

Mentoring

Hope in Haringey runs a small team that supports 16 to 24-year-olds in their education and careers. Currently, more than 100 mentors volunteer to help students build their employability skills. Mentors help mentees to gain, grow, and exhibit the skills, motivation, and aspirations required for a successful future both professionally and personally. Mentors are primarily trained in one-to-one, solution-focused strategies. This allows mentors to put the young person in the centre of the relationship and support them as they achieve the goals they set for themselves. We work closely with five educational partners to help students build their confidence, competence and hope for their futures.

To volunteer as a mentor, you can sign up here, to read our mentoring report click here or for more information please contact mentoring@hopeinharingey.com

Engagement

Building relationships of trust between police and Haringey’s young people is a major priority for HiH, which is why we are active in bringing groups of  Metropolitan Police Service Taskforce officers together with young people and their youth workers for quality information, learning and opinion-sharing.

Christina Davis is now HiH’s manager for Police Engagement.
Contact engagement@hopeinharingey.com for more information