September 2025 to August 2026
A year of youth work
346sessions delivered
3,199attendances
8,324contact hours with young people
OUR IMPACT
For more than sixty years, Providence House has been the front door to support for young people in Battersea. Here is how the work is built, who it reaches and what changes. The next step is a conversation.
Need and place
Rooted in Battersea
In 1963, Elizabeth Braund, known to generations simply as Miss Braund, opened a disused chapel near Clapham Junction to local boys who kept kicking footballs at its door. Sixty years of unbroken youth work in Battersea followed. Since 1970 our home has been the youth centre at 138 Falcon Road.
We work with children and young people aged 8 to 19, many from disadvantaged backgrounds. Some are not engaged with any other service. Some may be at risk of exploitation or violence, or of being drawn into harm. For them, a trusted adult and a safe place after school can change what happens next.
As youth services have been cut across the country, the need for places like ours has grown. Our new detached and outreach team now meets young people on the streets, estates and parks of the Falconbrook and Battersea Park wards, three days a week.
- Founded
- 1963, by Elizabeth Braund
- Home
- 138 Falcon Road, Battersea, SW11 2LW
- Borough
- London Borough of Wandsworth
- Ages
- 8 to 19
- Charity number
- 1181473 (England and Wales)
£1bn+
cut from UK youth services since 2010.
How we work
One front door, many routes
Open-access youth work is the front door. From there, young people move on into mentoring, schools work and leadership, so no young person is ever an isolated intervention. Our weekly sessions are free.
Reaching further
Reach
The work in numbers
Totals from our own monitoring, reported to our trustees. Each figure is shown with the period it covers.
Autumn term 2026
Every week
Around60young people a week in open-access sessions
8Youth Board members, aged 16 to 19
8volunteer mentors, each committed for a year
9mentoring matches started
March to June 2026
One spring and summer term
160young people
201sessions
1,752attendances
4,584contact hours
Summer holidays 2026
A summer with somewhere to go
41different young people
10trips
1residential at East Shallowford Farm
891contact hours
Contact hours count the time young people spend in sessions with our staff and volunteers. All figures are aggregate totals.
150
young people every week by 2029. That is our ambition, from around 60 today.
Outcomes
What changes
Young people tell us, in their own survey responses, what Providence House means to them.
Young people's survey, 2025/26
100%of girls' club members say Providence House is a safe space
64%report increased confidence
52%feel a stronger sense of belonging
40%developed new skills
We are introducing wellbeing measures before and after across every strand, so these results will grow into a fuller picture each year.
For funders
See the work for yourself
The best way to understand Providence House is a conversation. Jerome will talk you through the work, the young people it reaches and where your support could make the most difference.
Book a call with Jerome
Jerome Hughes, Chief Executive
Governance and accountability
Accountable by design
Providence House is a registered charity in England and Wales, number 1181473, governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees.
An active Board
Trustees set strategy, oversee risk, maintain oversight of safeguarding and hold our Chief Executive to account.
Outcomes we can show
Outcomes data is captured through Upshot across every strand, with wellbeing measured before and after.
Reviewed every year
Each year we bring our outcomes together in an annual impact report.
Safeguarding, checked independently
An external safeguarding audit every year from 2026/27. Our detached youth workers always work in pairs, are DBS checked and share their route before every session.
Young people in the room
Our Youth Board has real decision-making power, including input on senior recruitment.
Part of the local network
We have rejoined the Battersea Alliance, working alongside other local organisations for young people.
Funders and partners
In good company
Our work is made possible by trusts, foundations, local government, businesses and individual supporters.
Trusted by
Next step
Let's talk
Book a call with Jerome Hughes, our Chief Executive. Bring your questions; we will bring the detail, and an invitation to visit us in Battersea.
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