Because your organisation creates social impact for unpaid carers: It actively looks to increase the number of people it supports and requires funding to maintain the support it provides. By becoming a licence holder, you:
- Identify more young carers and increase your impact to support them
- Develop working relationships with schools
- Gain access to health and wellbeing expertise without upfront costs
- Create unrestricted income for your organisation by delivering courses
The result: increased income, influence, and impact
(1) First, have a conversation with us. You can email chris@trainforwards.com or fill out a contact form on the website.
(2) We go through and sign the licence agreement together.
(3) We identify at least two people in your organisation to attend on-boarding training. These can be volunteers or staff. The training will take place face-to-face in a day (or two half-days, online when needed).
(4) A bespoke link gives you access to an online vault that will allow you to download all materials.
- Facilitation guides
- Course materials (e.g., workbooks)
- Monitoring and evaluation questionnaires and frameworks
- Schools Presentation (i.e., a presentation to help promote courses to schools)
- Marketing materials (e.g., one-sheets, brand assets and imagery)
- On-boarding training
- 3 x good practice events and an annual conference for all licence holders
- On-demand support
Being a licence holder means you are able to provide training to schools to create an impact. This impact will be in the form of unrestricted income for your charity , improved outcomes for the schools you work with (e.g., increased school attendance, improved support for vulnerable children, enhanced identification of young carers), and elevated wellbeing for young people, especially young carers, giving them techniques to self-manage their health.
As part of your licence, you will be given a framework to capture this impact at the end of each term: December, April, and August. This impact will be shared at good practice events throughout the year.
When organisations become a licence holder, they are invited to on-boarding training. Additional support can also be requested in the form of packages of time: 5 (create), 10 (scale), or 20 hours (grow). These packages are for further formal training and development of programmes and can be purchased through the portal.
However, all licence holders are encouraged totalk to Train Forwards as much as they like for ad-hoc questions they may have. This ensures that all licence holders feel supported and impact is constantly being driven to all involved.
When courses are arranged to run in schools, the next phase will be to ensure that pre-course information is collected. This is likely to be with the class teacher over a conversation. Facilitators will need to know of any additional needs as well as collect monitoring information.
Courses then run with entire classes. When pupils identify as young carers, facilitators will liaise between the school and your charity. At the end of the last session of the course (and the beginning of the first session of the course), monitoring information is collected again to evidence impact. This will be sent back to Train Forwards as part of the programme's evaluation.
This is for a number of reasons:
- Removes any stigma and encourages self-identification safely
- Builds peer understanding and support (77% of schools have seen increased peer understanding from similar programmes)
- Supports all pupils including other vulnerable pupils
- Increases the programmes impact to cost (e.g., less that £10 per pupil per session)
You can see a breakdown for each of the courses here:
Firstly, there are no upfront fees. Fees are recovered from when courses start running courses with schools. Where necessary, we can support with fundraising to get this project moving for the first year.
It is expected that licence holders will provide courses to schools for £1,650 to generate an unrestricted income. The cost of the licence is recovered from this at a fee of £3,000 per course. With three courses, a full licence costs £9,000. This means a minimum of 6 courses will run over the course of a year. Licences are provided annually and we work together to to ensure the success of the programme.