5 Million Futures (5MF) is the Deloitte North and South Europe (NSE) social impact strategy, aiming to help five million people get to where they want to be through access to education and employment. 5MF seeks to address inequality by overcoming barriers to education and employment, empowering individuals with the skills needed to succeed in today’s economy.

Focused on inclusion and aligned to the UN’s Sustainable Development goals, 5MF is part of Deloitte’s Global WorldClass commitment to empower 100 million people by 2030. This is one of the ways we are bringing the firm’s purpose to life by making an impact that matters.

Read more about Deloitte's purpose.

In support of our WorldClass ambition to improve 100 million futures globally by 2030, we are focusing on initiatives and solutions which draw on our people’s skills to build better futures across the UK with a focus on education, skills and employment.

Explore our office partnerships below.

South & South East

Cambridge & Ipswich:
Papworth Trust

Papworth Trust are a local charity that supports disabled people, their families and carers every year, and work to help disabled people find sustainable employment and achieve broader independence. Their mission is to create a world where disabled people are seen for who they are.

Gatwick:
St Catherine's Hospice

St. Catherine’s Hospice aims to help everyone they support to face death informed, supported and pain free. The charity’s services include caring for patients bereavement support, clinical intervention and therapeutic activities.

London:
Place2Be

Place2Be is the UK’s leading charity providing mental health support to children and young people, plus advice and training to parents and teachers. Place2Be create safe places in schools where children can open up without pressure, building emotional skills needed to thrive.

Milton Keynes:
Camphill Milton Keynes Communities

Camphill MK is a place where people with learning disabilities and autism are encouraged and supported to maximise their potential through the experience of living, learning and working in community with others.

Reading:
Starting Point

Starting Point is passionate about seeing transformation in the lives of young people who face disadvantage. It delivers programmes that help local volunteers to support local young people equipped by local businesses.

Southampton:
IntoUniversity

IntoUniversity offers an innovative programme that supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to attain either a university place or another chosen aspiration.

St Abans:
Mind in Mid Herts (MiMH)

MiMH runs a number of programmes focused on prevention, recovery, and support to empower people to take control of their mental health.

South West & Wales

Bristol:
Bristol & Weston Hospitals Charity

Bristol & Weston Hospitals Charity improve the health and happiness of every patient. The charity transforms the experiences patients have in hospitals bringing moments of joy, comfort and hope.

Cardiff:
National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS)

NYAS Cymru works with the most vulnerable young people in Wales. They aim to reduce the risk of children being exploited and harmed by providing advocacy. They provide support service for care-experienced pregnant young women and young mothers. They also provide vital mental health and wellbeing support.

Midlands

Birmingham:
Place2Be

Place2Be is the UK’s leading charity providing mental health support to children and young people, plus advice and training to parents and teachers. Place2Be create safe places in schools where children can open up without pressure, building emotional skills needed to thrive.

Nottingham:
Dame Kelly Holmes Trust

Dame Kelly Holmes Trust equip young people with the positive behaviours and mindset they need to tackle the disadvantage they face due to inequality in their everyday lives.

North West

Liverpool:
The Hive, Wirral Youth Zone

The Hive Youth Zone’s vision is for every young person on the Wirral to be happy, healthy and to thrive within their community. By always putting young people first, they combine high quality youth work with inspiring activities in an inclusive, safe space.

Manchester:
Manchester Youth Zone

MYZ provides a unique safe place, with a wealth of sport, creative, education and employability activities. MYZ works to raise their members’ aspirations, equip them with the tools to increase their confidence, build positive relationships and add something back to their own community.

North East

Leeds:
Leeds Mind

Leeds Mind has been promoting positive mental health and wellbeing and providing support to anyone who needs it in and around Leeds for 50 years. Leeds Mind offer many services, including: counselling, group therapy, social support, peer support, social prescribing, employment support, suicide bereavement support, and mental health training.

Newcastle:
Crisis

Crisis work directly with thousands of homeless people every year providing vital help so that people can rebuild their lives and are supported out of homelessness for good.

Scotland & Northern Ireland

Aberdeen:
Aberdeen Cyrenians

Aberdeen Cyrenians support vulnerable people in crisis including those fleeing abuse, affected by trauma, poverty, disadvantage, exclusion, addiction or mental illness, liberated from prison, sofa surfing or rough sleeping.

Belfast:
Simon Community

Simon Community is a homelessness charity which supports people at risk of or experiencing homelessness, to help them to resolve issues in their lives that may put their home at risk.

Edinburgh:
Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH)

SAMH work with adults and young people providing mental health social care support, services in primary care, schools and further education, among others. These services, together with their work in suicide prevention and active living, inform their policy and campaign work to influence positive social change.

Glasgow:
Move On

Move On supports vulnerable young people and people affected by homelessness. The charity empowers people to gain confidence and a sense of motivation to “move on” from crisis points.

Offshore

Gibraltar:
Clubhouse Gibraltar

Clubhouse Gibraltar provide support for those who have been affected by mental illness and mental health problems.

Guernsey:
Grow Ltd.

Grow aims to help adults with learning disabilities and difficulties to develop self-confidence and life skills; enabling them to be included and valued within a workplace and the wider community by providing employment, training and mentoring in a safe and stimulating environment.

Isle of Man:
The Children's Centre

The Children’s Centre develops a variety of services aimed at enabling young people and families to realise their full potential, improve their life chances and become independent, confident and contributing members of society.

Jersey:
Every Child Our Future (ECOF)

ECOF is an educational charity, which provides literacy, numeracy and early years support to primary school children in Jersey. The programme has been designed to help children who are struggling to develop basic numeracy skills.

In addition to our locally-led 5 Million Futures partnerships, we also have a number of national partners and procurement relationships that help us focus our impact across the UK.

Action Tutoring

Before the pandemic, disadvantaged students were on average, 18 months behind their more advantaged peers by the end of secondary school. The pandemic has made this worse. Action Tutoring supports these young people to achieve academically by partnering them with volunteer tutors. Deloitte volunteers are tutoring primary and secondary school students in maths and English weekly over a school term. Not only does this regular support improve subject knowledge but it also increases confidence and study skills, whilst enabling our people to use and develop their communication, organisational and relationship skills.

Be the Business

Be the Business is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, with a singular goal: to help business owners and leaders improve the performance and productivity of their business for the health of the UK’s economy. Deloitte works with Be the Business to provide founders of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) a Deloitte mentor to support their businesses to grow and scale. Deloitte mentors use their business skills and experience to support these businesses.

Blueprint for All

Blueprint for All believes that race, ethnicity, or background should not limit what one can achieve in life. As part of our Black Action Plan and with a focus on equality of opportunity, Deloitte has partnered with Blueprint for All and are supporting them through pro bono, volunteering and fundraising. Together, we have also developed a new bursary scheme designed for students of Black, Asian, and minority ethnic heritage and from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds, to support their ambitions to carve out a successful future.