Putting an end to social injustice in Plymouth
Promoting Children in Plymouth’s (PCiP), mission is to eradicate the social injustice, ill-health and misery caused by child poverty in Plymouth. It brings together the public, private and third sectors to ensure that, as a city acting in unison, we remain dedicated to making a difference throughout a young person’s early life.
Our three pillars
Inspiration
The opportunities that children can be given to achieve their true potential which many other children take for granted, such as visiting the outdoors or just seeing their immediate world.
Aspiration
To understand the life and employment opportunities which are open to all, assisting young people to establish goals to work towards and believing that they can achieve them, no matter what their background.
Education
The toolkit of life skills (such as language, confidence, experiences and knowledge of how to present yourself) which allow children to compete on a level playing field with others.
Promoting children in Plymouth
Opening our eyes to Child Poverty in Plymouth
Who are we?
PCiP was born out of a want and need for collaboration and encouragement of our private sector to work more closely with the public sector and charitable organisations – sharing responsibility to rid child poverty from our city.
This is why PCiP is the initiative that is tackling child poverty,and which is specifically recognised by Plymouth City Council. The issue of children living in poverty in Plymouth is both significant and worsening. The Plymouth Fairness Commission report written some years ago, described a “Tale of Two Cities”, which highlighted how a child’s life outcomes were wholly predictable depending on the ward they were born into. Today, some wards continue to experience children in poverty levels in excess of 35%. This cannot be right.
Plymouth is a city of opportunity where no child’s life is dictated by poverty. Our mission is to facilitate high impact long lasting projects that break the cycle of multi-generational poverty
How can you help?
With such a large-scale challenge, in order to make a real and measurable impact, we understand that there needs to be high-impact, long-lasting projects. It isn’t about giving a handout, it is about giving a hand up.
If you would like to contribute to the projects included on our website, believe you could help in another way or are already working on projects in Plymouth relating to child poverty, please get in touch. Together, we really can make a difference – contact us today and become a PCiP partner organisation
