Creating futures that weren’t offered

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Helping care experienced and at-risk young people gain life skills, qualifications, and confidence through creative enterprise workshops and a unique curriculum built just for them

£53,783 Raised of £53,414

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Costs

Strategic Foundation-Setting Partnership £13,500
Venue Hire £10,000
Workshop Materials £8,192
Youth Coach / Mentors x 2 £6,048
Catering £5,000
Centre Aprroval Fee £4,020
Evaluation training in-kind £2,500
Truama Informed Training £1,000
Target: (inc. fees) £53,413

http://www.beenspired.org

I know what it feels like to be written off.

I grew up in foster care, bouncing between homes, feeling like an outsider in my own life even after being adopted. No one expected me to succeed, just ask CAHMS who said “they had failed.” I was then left in Kenya for 2 years with a family I had never met. No one handed me a roadmap to a future where I could dream beyond just making it through the day. But I fought. I found my way. And now, I’ve made it my mission to be the person I once needed—to show young people, like the one I used to be, that they are more than their circumstances.

That’s why I created Bee N Spired.

Bee N Spired is not just an education program it’s a movement and my personal mission. We empower children in foster care, young people at risk of incarceration, and those from low-income families by giving them something the system too often denies them: real opportunities, real skills, and real hope.

We run hands-on enterprise and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) workshops that don’t just teach—they ignite potential. We show young people that the math they struggle with in class is the same skill that can help them create their own beauty brand. We turn chemistry into something they can mix with their own hands. We make engineering real, showing them how to design, build, and create. We introduce them to entrepreneurs and mentors who look like them, who have been where they are and made it out.

This isn’t just about education. It’s about rewriting the narrative for kids who have been told they won’t make it. I was one of those kids. But now, I’m here, building something that can change lives.

Project Owner: Bee N Spired The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.