Who believed in you?
Almost everyone who's made it can name the person who believed in them first. A million young people can't name anyone. We asked some familiar faces to answer the question. Then we're passing it to you.
Charlie Stainforth,
Co-Founder & CEO at Circl
Everyone has an answer.
Too many young people don't.
Think of the person who first saw something in you. A teacher, a boss, an aunt, a stranger who took a chance. Now imagine growing up without them. That's the reality for around a million young people in the UK right now: not short on talent, short on someone trained to see it and draw it out.
So we're asking the country one question. Who believed in you? Name them. Thank them publicly. Then pass the question on. Because the point isn't nostalgia. The point is what you do next.
Now be that person.
Remembering who believed in you is the easy part. Here's the challenge: become the person who believes in a young person's potential before they believe in it themselves. You don't need to be born with the knack. Coaching is a skill, and Circl will train you in it, together with a young person, as equals. One decision. One trained coach in one more corner. That's how the chain becomes change.
Join the movement
Become a coach
Learn accredited coaching skills on the Circl programme, matched with a young person who'll be learning alongside you. Businesses and individuals welcome.
Fund a coach
Not everyone can give the time. Your support puts a trained coach in a young person's corner and keeps the movement growing.
Bring Circl to your young people
Work with young people? Partner with us to give them coaching and a seat at the table.
Does it actually work?
Ask the 3,471 who've been through it.
3,471
Circl graduates and counting
98%
of participants' line managers saw improvements in skills or performance
1 million
young people still waiting for someone in their corner
Belief shouldn't be a privilege.
Circl is the national youth coaching movement putting a trained coach in every young person's corner. You've heard the stories. You know your own. Time to be someone else's answer.
