Make a referral

Fairbridge De Cymru receives referrals from a wide range of statutory and voluntary organisations including schools, housing services and hostels, youth offending teams, CAMHS, youth and social services. We also receive referrals directly from parents and young people themselves.

To refer a young person to Fairbridge please fill in the relevant form:

Referral case study

Cardiff LEA Education Welfare Officers

Fairbridge De Cymru works with Cardiff local education authority welfare officers to help re-engage 13 to 16 year olds who are not attending or who are at risk of exclusion from school.

The partnership works by officers supporting the young person and referring them to Fairbridge on a voluntary basis. Fairbridge seeks to tackle ingrained, negative behaviour and support young people to successfully re-engage with school.

Sue Peat - RAISE Partnership, Cantonian High School, Cardiff

The Fairbridge Access course has had a great impact on the pupils that attended from Cantonian. They have returned full of praise and enthusiasm, highly motivated with raised self-esteem. They have gained new confidence with an improved attitude towards their work in school.

The following quotes were taken from young people -

Pupil: Nikita

“Fairbridge made me feel like I could achieve anything. Every time I went there I felt myself get more and more confident. I made new friends and old friendships were strengthened.

I had loads of fun on my Access course and every single one of us would love to go back and do it again. Fairbridge made us all feel very welcome and had loads of respect for us”.

School Leader: Becci King

“Fairbridge made a massive difference to the pupil’s lives. It made them feel important and valued. It encouraged them to work as a team and not to be afraid to speak out and take the lead. It also allowed them to grow as individuals as it guided them to make their own choices and decide what they wanted from the programme.

The confidence they have developed is overwhelming and what is great was that they had fun at the same time”.

Brett James, Fairbridge Outreach and Development Worker:

“By the time they come to us, these young people are disengaged with school and are often being chased by their education officers. After they start coming here, they go off on residential courses and do all kinds of fun activities, which means that they can start to see the officers in a positive light which helps re-engage them.

Having the welfare officers is a great help. It helps us to work closely with the schools and through working in partnership, ensures a smooth transition for each young person.”