Our Purpose
Helping people to advocate for themselves and others
Helping people to advocate for themselves and others. By learning to advocate for yourself, you can then extend that advocacy to others, especially those who find it difficult to advocate for themselves. If we can plant the seeds of advocacy within all our people and nurture those voices to grow, we can create a powerful ripple effect in our communities for positive change.
Our values
Empathy
- Foster a collaborative, supportive, kind work environment and a continuous learning and development culture for everyone.
- Approach situations from a place of empathy encompassing the organisation’s belief that outward behaviour reflects inward turmoil.
- Build effective, long-lasting relationships with all staff members where they see us as relatable leaders.
Purpose
- How all staff advocate for themselves and others.
- How all students advocate for themselves and others.
- How all families advocate for themselves and others.
Inclusion
- Hold ourselves, all staff and the organisation accountable against prejudice and oppressive practices.
- Put the needs of others ahead of our own.
- Support the development of sustainable structures to hold inclusion authentically within Really NEET.
Curiosity
- Respond to critical feedback or setbacks with a lens 
of curiosity.
- Be curious about Really NEET, its identity, and its future.
- Encourage and support curiosity in others.
Aspiration
- To help design, implement, and oversee evolving effective 
structures for safeguarding.
- To provide all students with a supportive, compassionate, 
professional experience and response.
- To support all staff with their development of your 
role and expertise.
Resiliance
- Practice and provide calm leadership to all of our 
young people.
- Take responsibility for wellbeing and model this to others.
- Fail fast and seek actual learning experiences from mistakes from ourselves and others.
Creativity
- Apply creative thinking to crisis management locally.
- Harness creativity in others and allow creativity to thrive within the organisation.
- Create platforms for ideas and innovation for everyone 
within the organisation, including our young people and 
other stakeholders.
PLANTING THE SEEDS WITHIN OUR TEAMS, YOUNG PEOPLE & FAMILIES
Our Pillars
Our philosophy is Youth Work before Education. You get the Youth Work right, the education will follow.
We strive for excellence in all 3 areas of Education, SEND and Youth Work to provide a holistic approach.
Our Approach
Breaking the cycle
Many young people who access our programmes come with Social Emotional Mental Health difficulties, which can lead to deregulated moments.
Really NEET’s ethos is that outward behaviour equals inward turmoil. Working with young people to get to the root of the emotion and supporting them to overcome it.
Creating a stable foundation
We believe if you can provide young people with a stable base and healthy relationships then successful education will follow.