How you can help
Donate
Online
You can make single or regular donations using your credit card.Justgiving.com is quick, easy and 100% secure for you to use. It"s also tax efficient and reduces admin for us! Click the button below to donate.
Paper
You can make single donations by cheque or regular donations by standing order.Print off and fill in this form and post it to Switchback, 66 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LT.
Fundraise
You can fundraise for Switchback using Justgiving.
Sponsorship for sporting events, support for personal challenges, asking friends and family can donate to Switchback as a gift to you for birthdays or weddings ... the list goes on!
To set up your own fundraising website for Switchback click the button below.
Provide opportunities
We work with a small number of trainees and a wide range of employers. To maximise the chances of success, we bring them together on a case-by-case basis, when the trainee is ready.If you are an employer who is keen to help, here are some things you can do:
- Offer to show one or more trainees around your establishment so that they can get a better understanding of the different working environments.
- Take on a trainee on an unpaid work placement.
- Ask one of our trainees to do one or more trial shifts with a view to filling a vacancy.
All we ask is that you agree to be added to our list of "willing" employers. We will only contact you if we have a trainee that might fit well with your organisation and then we take it from there. If you are happy to be added to this list, please get in touch .
Eat at the café
You can encourage trainees and support our partner charity, Crisis, by coming along to sample some of the delicious food in the Crisis Skylight café in Spitalfields, London. Let us know if you’re coming and we'll come downstairs and say hello!"Since I started this, I’ve changed. My friends say their lives are better too because I’m so different."
KA
Switchback Trainee
"Switchback are succeeding in helping people lead a responsible life. To do something constructive really makes a difference to these young people. They feel proud of themselves, their families feel proud of them and everything improves. That means everybody wins - we get a safer society and there are fewer victims."
Juliet Lyon
Director of The Prison Reform Trust
"For five years people have tried to help me and no-one has succeeded because of my own self but now you have finally succeeded and I owe you a big grateful thank you."
SP
Switchback Trainee
"I can’t believe the high level of care, support and professional response that the young person on my caseload has received from Switchback staff. Quite simply, amazing commitment!"
Lynne
Probation Officer
"Just had to ring you to tell you what’s happening and how good everything is – it’s really changed. Everything’s coming together and it’s really making a difference to all of us that TL is busy and doing well. Thank you thank you thank you you have made a massive difference."
TL’s mum