What We Believe

The No Way Trust seeks to guide and inspire young people; to promote and develop a fairer socially inclusive society, with fewer inequalities. Mistake, poverty, exclusion, or social deprivation should not mean a future without hope. It is our intention to provide credible and effective lifelong learning experiences that will help to reduce any negative influences and encourage more young people to make a success of their lives.

We at The No Way Trust emphatically deliver what we promise and we do make a real difference to young people’s lives.

Our ultimate aim will always be to help young people to recognise their own personal power, encourage the value of learning and develop a sense of the true values of liberty and citizenship.

Our Partners

The Trust currently works proactively with over 2000 secondary schools and more than 1800 other youth organisations including voluntary youth groups, charities, groups of excluded and disaffected young people ,pupil referral units, youth offending teams, magistrates, secure units and attendance centres, police, fire and ambulance services to name but a few.

Our work is widely acclaimed throughout educational fields, particularly in the secondary sector and during the last eight years, since inception of the project, we have worked with and touched the lives of in excess of 4.5 million young people.

Our Volunteers

It is an exceptional project, using the skills of volunteer prison staff and individuals with proven educational skills in tandem with the ideas of young people. It is these volunteers who care passionately for the well being of young people that have helped the charity to make a positive difference to young peoples lives irrespective of social or economic backgrounds.

The Charity has a Board of Trustees with a vast variety of skills and experience with hundreds of volunteers throughout the United Kingdom. A network of volunteer Area Co-ordinators back the charity all of which give freely of their own time to help the charity’s services. They have vision, passion, drive, determination and resolve, combined with sincerity, honesty, and dynamic attributes that form the very driving force behind the successful delivery of the entire project. Our exceptional volunteer base enables the trust to provide these high levels of service efficiently, cost effectively, and without charge to its target audience.

Our Programmes

Through pioneering programmes and resources we provide effective, non threatening, lifelong learning experiences that help to reduce negative life influences and encourage more young people to make a success of their lives.

We continue to build upon our educational ethos and proactively involve teachers and young people to help produce videos, CD-ROMs, audio cassettes, work sheets, school modules and information packs, all to which have a wide & varied range of potential use. We provide varied presentation styles and can individually tailor programmes designed to meet the needs of young people, who are disaffected, disadvantaged, socially excluded or at risk in any other way.

Strategies of delivery are devised after consultation so that they can be specific to the needs of the young people concerned and locally related issues. In some instances family members are included too. These sessions are usually small in number so they remain relevant and can occasionally be presented one on one with accompanying parents or guardians present.

Crime & Safety Awareness Day

Our highly acclaimed multi-agency "Crime & Safety Awareness Days” further compliment the fields of learning offered. These popular days include, high impact workshops, role-plays, drama, a lot of fun, and often end with a pop concert. Young people are provided with a unique opportunity to learn in an innovative and active fashion about the possible consequences of becoming involved in antisocial or criminal behaviour. They are interactive, thought provoking and extremely impressionable. Awareness days are specifically designed for the young so they can associate with the message.

Audiences usually range from Year 8 to Year 10 pupils. The pupils visited by the Trust on “Crime & Safety Awareness Days” are removed from their normal daily school cycle and become isolated from other members of their peer group for the day and treated like prisoners. They participate in exercise and meal routines, and are escorted from workshop to workshop as "actual prisoners" are when moving round the prison! The programmes and resources used also help to redress the exaggerated and often-incorrect images of prison life portrayed through television and the media and any myths or misconceptions young people may have. These days encourage participants to respect the value of their freedom whilst experiencing the restrictive regimes of a real day in the life of a prisoner first hand. Presentations are not one-offs; they are intended to be repeated year on year and it is a vital aim of the No-Way Trust to develop these spectacular days further so that more schools can benefit from the opportunity to be involved in these unique events