Student Hubs has been delivering activities for young people facing disadvantage in their communities for over a decade. This year's Winter Fundraiser is celebrating 10 years of our Schools Plus delivery, which has provided free tutoring support and activity clubs to young people in primary schools, secondary schools and colleges, since it's development in 2011.

This is alongside our various other bespoke programmes which support young people in our 5 Hubs: Empower (mentoring), Youth Theatre (drama sessions), Invest Plus (engineering workshops), Active (sports activities), and Hiraeth (activities for refugees and asylum seekers). Connecting young people to our passionate student volunteers is a core part of our work in our Hubs, and the experience of the past 18 months has only shown us how vital this work still is, and will continue to be.

During the pandemic, at Student Hubs we supported local families and young people by providing virtual student tutors, running activity days for young people facing disadvantages, facilitating mentoring, and making resources for local schools and classes. Across the 2020-21 academic year, we managed to reach 1500+ young people directly through 70+ community partners (including families), and the efforts of our 400+ student volunteers across Bristol, Cambridge, Kingston, Southampton and Winchester.

We want to channel our energy into continuing to run free programmes and interventions for young people, removing barriers to opportunities and adding much needed capacity to our schools, families and youth groups locally. This has been one of core delivery areas for a decade, and we want to see another decade of this provision across our growing Hub network.

To support us, you can donate, share the campaign, become a fundraiser, join in our 7 Days of Orangemas campaign, or encourage local organisations/businesses to donate to our cause or match fund us this festive season.

Help us spread the word and increase engagement with our campaign! You can read all about our activities and how to get involved at our blog.

Your donation will support us to continue to invest in the sustainability, growth, and logistics involved in making our programmes accessible, safe, and helping young people and students to thrive.