2014
Kadeema, CEO and founder, inspired to address the same isolation and hardship she’d experienced herself in becoming an independent adult then pitched her idea for a solution at a Google start-up weekend.
2015
With a Stephen Lloyds Awards Go Forward Youth founded as a charity with the purpose to relieve the social disadvantage and improve the wellbeing of young people who have had experience in the care system.
2017- 2020
Regular christmas get-togethers and other activities run on a voluntary basis with 60-80 young care leavers taking part.
SEPT 2019 - FEB 2020
The Hub piloted and evaluated: home away from home for an ‘at risk’ group of young people - ‘A positive, constructive and valued provision to an ‘at-risk’ group of young people in London
MARCH 2020 TO JUNE 2020
Own it - programme piloted and evaluated- intensive and individually focused, entrepreneurial training programme with paid work placements with Ted Baker. “I feel better about the future now.”
2021
Own it running for second cohort with support from previous years’ alumni: “People won’t see all the benefits at the start - I would like to help people feel unafraid”
WINTER 2021
3 year core funding in place for core staff, and for a base from which to run the HUB. From idea to reality in seven years of hard work, learning and development.
Summer 2022
New Building