Charities Helped

STOP THE TRAFFIK seeks to prevent human trafficking, in which people are recruited, controlled and exploited for profit, before it happens by leveraging data and technology. It has developed the world’s richest database on trafficking and, informed by this intelligence, delivers digital programmes that are proven to prevent exploitation. Through successful partnerships with over 250 banks, businesses, law enforcement agencies and nonprofits, it makes the traffickers’ business models higher risk and lower profit.

STOP THE TRAFFIK’s Safer Futures Programme seeks to prevent child criminal exploitation through localised data collection. The programme pilot in eight UK cities has helped to identify the methods used to recruit children, and enable the dissemination of critical safety information, with demonstrable effectiveness. With the support of The October Club, STOP THE TRAFFIK will be able to scale up its prevention model across the entirety of England.

Since 2012, Spark Inside has provided transformational life coaching support to more than 2,000 people in prison. Its award-winning programmes, delivered by highly qualified, expert life coaches, offer young people aged 15 to 30 in the criminal justice system a real route to change and a crime-free future.

External evaluations have found that Spark Inside’s programmes have lead to statistical improvements in participants’ choices, behaviours and decision-making, with the young people making tangible progress in education, training and employment.

Spark Inside operated predominantly in London, but with funds raised by The October Club, it is currently expanding its services in the Midlands. This expansion will enable it to support at least 300 additional young men across three prisons, a section of the prison population that has been, to date, underserved with less funding and fewer interventions.