Engage Trust UK
Charity 1165129
Overview
Summary
Engage Trust UK appears to be a relationship-led youth organisation whose current public identity is increasingly centred on emotional wellbeing in schools, while its charitable remit remains broader: youth development, community participation, recreation, unemployment and Christian faith. Its distinctive role may lie in combining pastoral, informal youth-work practice with a structured school-based programme, creating a bridge between educational settings, young people’s wider lives and local communities.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence confirms that Engage Trust UK reports operating in Birmingham City, alongside Dudley, Sandwell, Staffordshire, Walsall and Wolverhampton. This supports a regional operational footprint rather than a Birmingham-only organisation.
- The current website describes delivery through the 'Worth It!' mental-health and wellbeing programme in schools and organisations across the West Midlands. The 2024-25 trustees' report confirms that the schools programme continued during the year, using a sessional worker after the Schools Worker left in March 2025.
- There is no current public evidence identifying a Birmingham school, ward, neighbourhood, centre-based venue or other physical delivery location. It would therefore be inappropriate to assign activity to any of the supplied Birmingham wards or to City Centre.
- The registered/principal office is in Wolverhampton, not Birmingham. The available evidence does not establish that Engage Trust UK has a physical site in Birmingham.
- The evidence indicates that schools and community organisations materially extend delivery reach, but it does not identify current Birmingham partner schools or organisations. No significant Birmingham-specific partnership can therefore be recorded confidently.
- The organisation's Birmingham activity appears to be mobile and institution-based, principally delivered through schools and potentially other host organisations, rather than anchored to a known neighbourhood or dedicated Birmingham site. This is a reasonable interpretation of the available evidence, not direct location evidence.
Additional evidence needed
- A current list of Birmingham schools, community organisations or churches hosting the 'Worth It!' programme, identifying delivery in a supplied ward.
- A current annual or impact report that breaks down programme delivery, sessions or beneficiaries by local authority, school or Birmingham locality.
- Confirmation from Engage Trust UK of whether it maintains, hires or regularly uses any Birmingham physical site for centre-based youth work, mentoring or programme delivery.
- Evidence identifying any active Birmingham delivery partnerships and whether these are ongoing, occasional or project-specific.
Areas of work
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Religious Activities
Who they help
- Children/young People
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A broad youth-work charity has developed a focused wellbeing offer
The available evidence suggests that the organisation uses the 'Worth It!' programme as a clear, repeatable entry point for work in schools and community settings, even though its formal purposes encompass a much wider range of youth and community outcomes.
Why it matters
This helps explain how a charity with wide-ranging objects may be building a more legible operating model: a focused mental-health and self-worth offer can create partnerships and referrals while supporting wider relational work.
Show evidence
“The organisation offers a bespoke 12-session small-group programme addressing self-worth, self-esteem and mental health.”
Source:Organisation“Its objects include advancing young people in life, promoting education, relieving unemployment and providing recreational activities.”
Source:Charity Commission
Relationships appear to be treated as the intervention, not only a delivery method
Engage Trust UK appears to position sustained, trusted adult relationships as central to its theory of change, rather than presenting programmes as primarily informational or clinical.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from providers focused solely on workshops or counselling. It may make the charity particularly relevant where young people need continuity across school, family, community and informal settings.
Show evidence
“It aims to encourage, equip and empower individuals through ongoing positive relationships, time and resource.”
Source:Organisation“Its activities include detached youth work, pastoral care, mentoring programmes, schools work and centre-based youth work.”
Source:Organisation
The organisation may bridge school-based wellbeing and neighbourhood youth provision
The combination of schools programmes with detached, centre-based and holiday youth work suggests a potential capacity to see needs that cross institutional boundaries, rather than treating school wellbeing as separate from young people's social environments.
Why it matters
This could make Engage Trust UK a useful connective partner for schools, youth services, families and community organisations, especially where concerns emerging in one setting require support in another.
Show evidence
“It works alongside communities and schools in the West Midlands.”
Source:Organisation“Its projects include detached youth work, trips, visits, residentials, holiday provision, schools work and centre-based youth work.”
Source:Organisation
- It is unclear which activities are currently delivered at scale beyond the 'Worth It!' programme.
- There is no evidence about beneficiary demographics, local areas served, referral routes, safeguarding arrangements or outcomes beyond testimonials and headline counts.
- The practical role of Christian faith in delivery, partnerships and access is not clear.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or impact data showing participant numbers, locations, outcomes and the balance between schools, detached and centre-based work.
- Information on school, community, faith-sector and statutory partnerships, including how young people enter and continue through support.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
We aim to serve people across a range of settings, taking an holistic and relational approach. We deliver a range of projects including detached youth work - including trips, visits and residentials, holiday provision, schools work and pastoral care, mentoring programmes, mental health schools programmes and centre-based youth work.
Charity objects
IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN VALUES TO ENGAGE WITH AND ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO ARE POOR, DISADVANTAGED, MARGINALISED, OR AT RISK OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION; OR OTHERWISE IN CONDITIONS OF EMOTIONAL, MENTAL, OR SPIRITUAL NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS, BY PROVIDING GUIDANCE, ADVICE, SUPPORT, OPPORTUNITIES AND BY ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF: A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE AT RISK OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION, BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS; B) PROMOTING EDUCATION; C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT; D) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS. E) ADVANCING THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.