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See our transition approach ↗Nexsteps Futures Ltd · Founding partner opportunitiesHelp a young person
Help a young person
build their future.
Your business could help care-experienced young people turn ideas into skills, confidence and opportunity. Partner with Nexsteps across Liverpool, Wirral, Cheshire and the wider North West.
Sponsorship and partnership enquiries are open. Delivery of funded projects depends on confirmed resources and arrangements.
Ways to work together
Partnerships are about more than sponsorship
We welcome conversations with local authorities, schools, leaving-care teams, voluntary organisations, businesses and people with skills to share. We want practical relationships that create lasting opportunities.
Employers & entrepreneurs
Offer careers insight, mentoring, enterprise workshops, practical experience or a safe introduction to self-employment.
Explore the Enterprise Hub ↗Sponsors & community organisations
Support Nexsteps Live experiences, resources and opportunities through financial support, introductions, equipment or volunteering.
Discuss a partnership ↗Enquiries are exploratory. We agree the scope, responsibilities, safeguarding and any funding arrangements before delivering activities.
Why support Nexsteps?
Real opportunities, built around young people
We develop accessible tools, practical activities and community opportunities to help young people take steps towards adulthood, explore their strengths and shape a future of their choosing. We want businesses to help us build the next stage.
Care Leavers Enterprise Hub
For care-experienced young people aged 16–25: business ideas, financial skills, accessible activities and an interactive business plan. Help us develop guided workshops, mentoring and practical resources.
Explore the Enterprise Hub ↗Nexsteps Live
Help develop inclusive sport, music and community experiences for children and young people aged 8–18. Businesses could contribute tickets, venues, transport or other practical support.
Explore Nexsteps Live ↗Independent Living & Transition
Support the development of practical life skills, Easy Read activities and person-led resources for care leavers and young adults preparing for greater independence.
My Life. My Future. My Way. ↗Photographs are illustrative. They do not show Nexsteps participants or imply a current sponsor or venue partnership.
Our first campaign
Founding sponsors for the Enterprise Hub
We're seeking support for a proposed 12-week enterprise pilot for up to 10 care-experienced young people. The pilot would combine the free online Hub with supported activities, workshops and opportunities to learn from local business people.
Initial fundraising target
£5,000
Help turn an existing online learning resource into a practical, supported enterprise opportunity.
Campaign target, not money already raised. No contribution, sponsor or place is confirmed by this figure.
What £5,000 could support
| Programme coordination and mentoring support | £1,600 |
| Enterprise workshops and learning resources | £1,200 |
| Starter equipment and practical materials | £1,200 |
| Accessible and Easy Read materials | £500 |
| Travel, volunteer expenses and delivery safeguards | £500 |
| Total proposed pilot budget | £5,000 |
Indicative planning budget; final costs, delivery partners and scope would be agreed before funds are committed.
Ways businesses could help
Community Backer
Project Partner
Founding Sponsor
Choose a level that suits your business
These are suggested sponsorship amounts, not fixed membership fees. We'd also welcome smaller contributions, practical items, volunteer skills and introductions to potential partners.
£250
Help someone get started
Contribute towards accessible activities, materials and opportunities for young people to explore a business idea.
We can discuss acknowledgement and a short project update.
Enquire about £250£500
Support practical learning
Help fund workshops, resources and hands-on enterprise experiences.
We can discuss project updates, recognition and suitable staff-volunteering opportunities.
Enquire about £500£1,500
Help establish the pilot
Make a larger contribution towards creating and coordinating a supported enterprise programme.
We can discuss founding-partner recognition, outcome reporting and business mentoring involvement.
Enquire about £1,500Recognition and volunteering arrangements would be individually agreed. No sponsor is entitled to young people's personal information or direct access to children. Appropriate consent and safeguarding checks would apply. Sponsorship here means businesses and community partners supporting Nexsteps projects; it is not immigration sponsorship or a Support Worker recruitment route.
Not just financial help
There are other valuable ways to partner
01 · BUSINESS SKILLS
Offer your experience
Help develop workshops about prices, customers, marketing, interview skills or budgeting. Any direct work with young people would follow agreed safeguarding procedures.
02 · PRACTICAL SUPPORT
Contribute equipment or opportunities
Offer appropriate materials, venue space, transport, tickets or other resources suited to an agreed project.
03 · MAKE INTRODUCTIONS
Connect us with your network
Introduce Nexsteps to local employers, entrepreneurs, community businesses and organisations that support opportunities for young people.
What a partnership could achieve
We want sponsorship to lead to more than a logo on a website. We would plan activity against clear, proportionate outcomes and update partners on what their contribution helped support.
- Young people engaging with enterprise and independent living activities.
- Business ideas explored and practical plans developed.
- Skills and confidence practised through workshops or community opportunities.
- Progression towards mentoring, training, employment or self-employment where appropriate.
We would use anonymised or consented stories and appropriate safeguarding controls. Participation, outcomes and business success cannot be guaranteed.
How we'd work with your business
1. Conversation: we discuss the project that interests you.
2. Agreed plan: we confirm what is being contributed and any suitable recognition or reporting.
3. Delivery: activity begins when the funding, practical arrangements and safeguards are in place.
4. Review: we share an appropriate account of the work delivered and what it achieved.
Let's work together
Become a Nexsteps founding partner
If your organisation would like to sponsor a programme, offer practical support or explore a collaboration, we'd welcome a conversation.
Email: hello@nexsteps.org.uk
Or use the short form. Enquiries are recorded in Nexsteps' private enquiry register for follow-up. Automated email notifications are not yet configured, so use the email address above for a time-sensitive enquiry.
Nexsteps Futures Ltd is a community-focused social enterprise project. We are not asking visitors to make an immediate online payment, and sponsorship is not advertised as a charitable Gift Aid donation. Terms would be agreed before money or goods change hands.