Why Trelya?
Achievements
Our work has been recognised through a wide range of achievements. Below are some of the most notable, spanning the life of our organisation:
- Trelya’s youth work programme was rated ‘Gold’ by The Home Office for outcomes reporting.
- Winner of Lloyds Bank Foundation’s Children’s Charity of the year award.
- Trelya’s highly successful adult skills development programme ‘Gul’ - breaking the cycle of intergenerational long-term unemployment.
“Trelya has grown into an organisation where flexibility and responsiveness are defining elements of the organisational culture. Because of the complex, ever-changing needs of young people, Trelya places emphasis on deeply embedded listening”.
individual children, young people, parents and carers have been supported through Trelya’s services to date.
Over the past year Trelya has seen a 40% increase in referrals.
- The first cohort of 16 children were assessed on entry to our early years programme - 100% were below age related expectations in all OFSTED monitored areas - after 1 year with Trelya, children had progressed to age-related expectations in nearly every prime area.
- Trelya has received regional & national recognition including features by Nursery World, The Guardian and the BBC.
- Trelya is one of only 19 projects in the country to be selected by The Department of Health and Social Care to receive a 2021 VCSE Health and Wellbeing ‘Starting Well’ award. Only two organisations in the South West of England were awarded the funding and Trelya is the only organisation in Cornwall to hold this award.
- Trelya’s asset based approach has enabled those we support to go on to do incredible things including playing football for Cornwall, studying at University, exhibiting locally and at the Saatchi Gallery in London, studying performance skills in Paris, screening a film on BBC 2, performing at The Eden Project & book publication.
Aims
Trelya tackles the structural inequalities and barriers that fuel cycles of deprivation head on. We aim to equip children and families with the skills and resources they need to break free and build positive, happy, healthy and fulfilling futures.
- We aim to ensure that children and families have equitable and equal access to health, education, food, warmth and safety. We persevere, and together, no matter what – we get there.
- Learning from over 20 years of grass roots experience we ensure our organisational aims are always led by the need of our community. Our responses are innovative, tailored, and we deliver what is really needed to make the long term, sustainable difference.
- We aim to find and build on often undiscovered inner strength and resilience. Every person is treated as an individual, we unlock their core assets and use these to ignite hope, ambition and fulfilment.
After engaging for 6 months in Trelya’s Gul Skills Programme 77% of participants move on to work, training or further education.