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Brathay Trust works with young people in their communities and at residential centres in the Lake District. Many of them are vulnerable; manging the transition from living in care to independence, risking exploitation in unhealthy relationships or lacking the confidence to find work or training. All of them need support and inspiration to fulfil their potential.

Less than half of the 10,000 young people leaving care in the UK each year access training or find work. A third leave care under the age of 18 and many will have poor mental health. In 2016, our 70th anniversary year, Brathay is fundraising to support those leaving care. Find out more at www.brathay.org.uk\cyp

Keenene, whose story you hear in the appeal, was his Mum鈥檚 carer by the age of 8 and at 13 he was taken into care.聽 Brathay Trust youth workers met him when he joined the Going Places programme to raise educational attainment for young people in care.聽 He went on to work part-time for the charity supporting other young people like him.聽

Most of our programmes include a residential experience when young people are taken out of their community to one of our Lake District centres. For nearly all of them, being in a new place and being challenged, is life-changing and this shifts the way they see themselves and changes their behaviour.

At Brathay we work with young people in groups encouraging them to become aware of themselves and their situation, empowering them to take control of their lives and then to take action for themselves and others.