
‘It Takes A Village’
Partnership Collaborations
“I am because we are”
About It Takes A Village
It Takes a Village is a Partnership between the MEaP consortium and some of its closest delivery partners.
Highway Hope
Highway Hope offers community-focused supplementary schooling, business enterprise workshops, and essential life-skills support. It aims to raise educational standards and build confidence to prepare young people for active citizenship and future employment. Highway Hope is praised for their welcoming employment, where they welcome a diversity of people and provide them with a safe space to thrive.
G.I.F.T. Academy
Grace Incorporation Faith Trust (G.I.F.T.) Academy provides supplementary education, accredited employability modules, career mentoring, and family mediation. It works with young people and adults facing barriers to opportunity to build workplace readiness and overcome employment obstacles. GIFT offers over 23 years of expertise in social inclusion, employability skills, community service and education.
MaCTRI
MEaP/Manchester Academy Community Training & Research Institute (MaCTRI) is the training and research institute offering accredited community training, apprenticeships, and research initiatives focused on racial justice, education, and empowering underrepresented youth and educators. MaCTRI actively advocates for decoloniality and educational justice, conducting grassroots research and engaging in international advocacy at the United Nations level to challenge structural inequities. With those goals in mind, the institute will soon be offering academic degrees.
MEaP Twilight Academy
MEaP Twilight Academy provides supplementary education and focuses on improving academic achievement and core subjects to build confidence and enhance long-term employability for young people.
Nurturing Foundations
Nurturing Foundations is a community organisation delivering leadership programmes, 1-to-1 mentoring, and work placements for young adults (aged 18–25). It focuses on building resilience, personal agency, and civic engagement through social action projects and career development pathways.
Elevate Young Minds
Elevate Young Minds focuses on creative pathways into employment by guiding young people through disciplines such as theatre, dance, and event management, offering hands-on experience and industry exposure.
3E Web Media Ltd
3E Web Media Ltd provides targeted digital, data and AI literacy and career skills training and strategies to help unemployed young people and adults hone technical abilities, build resilience, and gain in-demand competencies for modern work environments. They co-created and deliver initiatives like the MEaP TECHWELL Bootcamp and Career Start-Up, and provide intern management, board coaching and young people mentoring for effective digital transformation.
Pathfinder Education Limited
Pathfinder Education Limited delivers practical educational challenges and social hackathons designed to help young audiences unlock hidden talents, solve real-world industry problems, and build workplace-ready skills. They are the main provider of MEaP TECHWELL ESOL and have fostered youth employment in such initiatives as the UK Youth Summer Jobs.
It Takes A Village Meetings, News and Updates
It Takes A Village 30 Jun 2026 Meeting
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It Takes A Village 03 Sep 2026 Meeting
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It Takes a Village 2026: MEaP Partnership Strengthening
Transformative 2-day face-to-face partnership sustainability strategy meeting (14, 15 Apr 2026) @ at Highway Hope & Nurturing Foundations funded by N13
It Takes A Village Projects
UK Youth Summer Jobs 2026 at MEaP and Partners
It Takes a Village 2026: MEaP Partnership Strengthening
Transformative 2-day face-to-face partnership sustainability strategy meeting (14, 15 Apr 2026) @ at Highway Hope & Nurturing Foundations funded by N13
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