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Switch Up provides life changing support to young people who have had Adverse Childhood Experiences and trauma. We especially support young people from BAME communities, and those affected by crime and violence, and those who other agencies find hard to reach.
Our mentors and coaches, as well as founder and CEO Marcellus Baz, have lived experience of the issues we want to overcome. “Baz” was a gang member who turned his life around, being honoured with a British Empire Medal in 2016 by HRH The Queen and was named the Unsung Hero of the Year at the Sports Personality of the Year awards. Under Baz’s leadership, the organisation has achieved phenomenal outcomes resulting in him becoming an advisor for the Home Office and meeting the Home Secretary about the Switch Up model.
Our mentors and coaches, as well as founder and CEO Marcellus Baz, have lived experience of the issues we want to overcome. “Baz” was a gang member who turned his life around, being honoured with a British Empire Medal in 2016 by HRH The Queen and was named the Unsung Hero of the Year at the Sports Personality of the Year awards. Under Baz’s leadership, the organisation has achieved phenomenal outcomes resulting in him becoming an advisor for the Home Office and meeting the Home Secretary about the Switch Up model.
Contact
Address
Meadows One Stop Shop, 5-7 Bridgway Centre,
The Meadows,
Nottinghamshire,
NG2 2JD,
United Kingdom
Work Tel. No.
07412 691 466
switchupcic@outlook.com
Website
In Brief
Charity Number
0
No. of Paid Staff
10
No. of Volunteers
12
Does the organisation involve volunteers with experience of the criminal justice system?
Yes
Primary Field of Work
Mentoring & befriending
Custody or Community
Custody
Community
Organisation type
Voluntary and Community Sector
Regions
East Midlands | Nottingham UA | Nottinghamshire | Mansfield
Fields of Work
Advice & advocacy | Alcohol & drugs | Attitudes, thinking and behaviour | Collaboration and partnership working | Counselling | Covid-19 | Disability | Domestic & sexual violence | Education | Employment | Evaluation and effectiveness | Family support | Finance, benefits & debt | Gambling | Holistic services | Housing & homelessness | Mental health | Mentoring & befriending | Parenting skills | Peer support | Personal development | Physical health | Prisons | Race | Relationships | Resettlement | Restorative justice | Sexual health | Sports | Suicide and self-harm | Through the gate | Training | Volunteering
People you work with
Racially minoritised people | Children | Families | Men | People with disabilities | People on a short sentence | Refugees & asylum seekers | People on remand | People convicted of serious offences | Women | Young people
Racially minoritised people specialist services
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh | Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Bangladeshi | Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Asian | Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Pakistani | Black, Black British or Black Welsh | Black, Black British or Black Welsh: Caribbean | Black, Black British, or Black Welsh: African | Foreign Nationals | Other ethnic group: Arab