Hope UK is pleased to work in partnership with these organisations :

 ARCADE  (Amethyst Centre for Alcohol and Drug Education)  www.arcadeuk.org

Arcade’s aim is to present young people with positive choices for a healthy lifestyle.  They have been running schools-based drug-education projects since 1994. They recognise the importance of providing accurate information about the potential dangers associated with alcohol and other drugs.  For information about voluntary opportunities with ARCADE, please visit http://www.amethyst.org.uk/opportunities/index.html

Pentecost Festival : www.pentecostfestival.co.uk

 The Pentecost Festival is co-ordinated by SJI, a national charity based in South West London. The festival is a collaborative celebration of the Christian faith, involving many organisations, charities, churches and individuals. It takes place over the Pentecost weekend. Hope UK’s Educators are involved by providing alcohol awareness activities at locations in central London. For more information, visit www.pentecostfestival.co.uk. (Registered charity number: 1089784)

 Drug Proof your Kids : www.dpyk.org.uk

Care for the Family : www.careforthefamily.org.uk 

Care for the Family began training presenters for ‘How to Drug Proof Your Kids’ three years ago and so far over 600 accredited presenters have been trained to take the programme into their local communities throughout the UK. “‘How to Drug Proof Your Kids’ is primarily about prevention,” explains Paula Pridham, Care for the Family’s Training Manager. “The key aim is to enable parents to help their children make informed choices about drinking, smoking and using illegal drugs. Obviously it helps to discuss alcohol and drugs before your children are tempted to start experimenting. But we also cover other crucial areas, including intervention and handling relapses.”

Contact Paula Pridham for further information at Care for the Family, Garth House, Leon Avenue, Cardiff CF15 7RG; tel: 029 2081 0800

 Life for the World : www.lftw.org

 Life for the World Trust has almost forty years’ experience of working in the drug field and offers a variety of training programmes tailored to meet local needs. Their university validated Certificate in Substance Misuse, Care and Counselling runs at key centres across the UK. Modular courses, awareness and advanced seminars and workshops are available for churches or groups of churches. The Trust offers practical advice to churches that want a greater understanding of how to help drug users, their families and communities.

Contact Life for the World Trust, Genesis House, 6 Green Park Road, Bath BA1 1XC; tel: 01225 426 265

 Ansvar Insurance Company : www.ansvar.co.uk 

Ansvar is an ethical general insurance company that specialises in insuring non-profit organisations including churches and charities. It also offers home, car and travel insurance to connected individuals that reward responsible lifestyles. Hope UK is grateful that Ansvar Insurance Company has sponsored our  Annual Report for six years.

Mark Ingram, Head of Insurance operations for Ansvar writes, “Ansvar has always been an insurance company that takes social responsibility seriously. It gives us great pleasure to be Hope UK’s principal business supporter. We appreciate the excellent work undertaken by Hope UK and are delighted to offer tangible support by sponsoring the Annual Report.”

 Share Jesus International : www.sharejesusinternational.com

Emerging Culture : www.emergingculture.co.uk 

Share Jesus International is a visionary, radical movement which brings together a diverse range of Christian denominations and mission agencies for corporate action in mission and evangelism. They have worked with over 700 churches across the UK, running various mission events such as Surf missions, cinema tours, and a Boot Camp ministry on a farm in Cornwall. There are now branches of these summer missions in the USA and Australia.

SJI are committed to training and resourcing Christians and the Church in evangelism and leadership. In recent years they have co-ordinated Alpha Leadership Training Courses, Conferences on Religious Freedom, discipleship weekends for Christian young men, and the Destiny Conferences for young leaders.

The youth department are emerging from SJI with a vision to be creative, equipping and involving within all their projects. More details of their events and resources can be found on the above website.

Pilotlight:  www.pilotlight.org.uk

Hope UK is grateful to have received two years of support (2007/8) from the Pilotlight charity.  They helped us formulate a plan to grow our Voluntary Drug Educator Programme to 1,000 volunteers. 

Pilotlight brings together teams of senior business people to provide free capacity building support to charities and social enterprises. They help ambitious organisations who are tackling disadvantage, to reach more people, more effectively.