Community Support
Working with and serving our Communities to ensure social inclusion and meeting basic needs.
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Families helped
Family Mediation
Our latest Children and Youth Activities Projects
Why Come To Us?
Diversity: Our young people come from 30+ countries
Richness: Our programmes include over 20 types of activities from arts to IT to outings
Tailored: Our provision takes into account age, circumstances, heritage and community.
Flexibity: Delivery locations are distributed across Manchester for your convenience
Scalability: Constantly growing our provision for our diverse and growing youth with strong partners.
Our Community Reach and Support
Our African and Caribbean-led consortium’s organisations support our communities through family mediation, family support provides cater for 0 to 5 years old children across Greater Manchester. Highway Hope (covers Longsight, Levenshulme and Stockport), Grace Incorporation Faith Trust (G.I.F.T.) Academy, Nurturing Foundations (North) and MEaP Twilight Academy (online).
Family Mediation
About
GIFT works in partnership with MEaP to deliver targeted family support to children and young people at risk of school exclusion. Our programme is designed to wrap around families, providing the right support at the right time so that every child can thrive in education and beyond.
We offer a holistic, community-based approach that connects families with practical help, advocacy, and specialist guidance. Whether your child is struggling in school, has additional needs, or has experienced exclusion, our team is here to walk alongside you.
Who we support
Our programme works with children and young people aged 5-16, and their families. We have particular experience supporting families from Caribbean, Irish, and Roma Traveller backgrounds, and families where children have Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
We support families where children or young people are:
- At risk of, or experiencing, school exclusion (temporary or permanent)
- Struggling with behaviour in school or at home
- In need of an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan or SEND support
- Transitioning back into mainstream education
- Experiencing difficulties with attendance or academic engagement
Family Support – Donations
Our Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculm delivers all the key requirements expected by any parents or the commisionnier. Our EYFS provision follows the Reggio Emilia approach to child-centred learning, that promotes the natural curiosity of the child as the main driver for learning. We carefully integrate the following areas of learning in as organic and child-centred way as possible:
Understanding the world
Understanding the world is the foundation for our primary curriculum, as we believe that embedding the principles of ‘global citizenship’ is fundamental to a balanced, nurturing and responsible education.
Physical development
Our children take part in many different activities related to physical development including Physical Education (PE) such as dace or team sports.
Personal, Social and Emotional development
Literacy
Mathematics
Expressive Arts and Design
• Art
• Music
• Design Technology including cookery/food nutrition
Communication and language
Primary Curriculum and much more...
Our children also cover the wider curriculum subjects known as Foundation Subjects. The subjects not already mentioned include:
• Computing
• History
• Geography
• Design Technology including cookery/food nutrition
• Religious (RE) and Cultural Education
• Personal Social Health Emotional (PSHE)
• Additional
Our children take part in many different activities; sports, essay and international spelling bee competitions, outside speaker visits, themed days, food nutrition sessions, our strong links with local high schools, universities, charity events, school enterprise, visits to the theatre, educational based visits, enrichment activities and many, many more.
100s of Pupils and Parents Have Trusted Us
“it was helpful and also gives me an experience of what the real gcse will be” – Charles N. – About the Twilight Academy Easter Intensives 2025
Its been very good especially in terms of practising for my summer exams it has been very useful for my revision and improvement” – David O. – About Twilight Academy Easter Intensives 2025
Thank you for the opportunity as i was able to enhance my learning skills through this program and I’m grateful. – Joshua A. – About the Twilight Academy Easter Intensives 2025
It was nice to do the lesson in person because I made a friend with someone here as its hard to socialise in lessons online. I think it would better if the tests were more spread out because they were tiring. – Debbie O. – About Twilight Academy Easter Intensives 2025
My thoughts on the Easter Intensives 2025: really enjoyed the hot food lasagna on the first day and liked the lunch out in the park. would like the break after the 1st exam to be a b it longer as it didnt really feel like a break really loved the teachers and the atmosphere was really nice. – Charissa I. – About Twilight Academy Easter Intensives 2025