Programmes

Northampton Saints Foundation uses the values of Northampton Rugby Football Club and the power of sport to INSPIRE, SUPPORT and EDUCATE people and their communities through a number of innovative and exciting programmes.

Each year, the Foundation educates more than 7,000 children and young people in mainstream schools and alternative settings. Our education programmes assist the physical, social and emotional development of individuals, supporting education education attainment and aiming to reduce the risk of exclusion, or disengagement from education.

We transform the lives of young people whose situations are more difficult due to mental health issues, attainment challenges, behavioural problems and traumas, which can affect their education. Each year over 200 young people attend Engage, our social inclusion programme from hubs located in Northampton, Corby, Kettering and Milton Keynes. They learn new skills and build their self-esteem, helping them gain control of their academic pathway.

We help to reduce reoffending in UK prisons to increase their confidence, become productive and learn new skills to reduce criminality, isolation and help change their lives for the better. 

We work within care homes to enhance the overall physical and mental well-being of residents and host a monthly memory cafe designed for individuals experiencing loneliness, memory loss, Alzheimer's disease, or other forms of dementia, as well as their caregivers and loved ones.

And we are an alternative education provider to those who are 16-19, helping them to develop their personal, life and employability skills.  They can gain qualifications, complete work experience and take part in engaging workshops to become work ready. 

We are proud to say that 93% of young people moved onto positive placements in education, training or employment.  ​We are driven forward by those that are lost to us, either disengaged, in prison or dead. ​

We will not rest until every young person we work with, however difficult their past, is on the path to positive future.