Sister System & Impetus

The need: Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are twice as likely as their better-off peers to be out of education, employment, or training. Gender and experience of care compound this disadvantage, with care leavers three times more likely to be not in education, employment, or training.

Our portfolio partner: Sister System provides specialist early-intervention support to care-affected young women aged 13-24 in order to help them sustain positive relationships and mental wellbeing and progress into education, training, and employment.

Our Impact: Sister System runs a unique programme targeted at the young people most in need. We are helping them to design, deliver, and evaluate their work for maximum impact and build out the organisational foundations to sustain it.

Sister System was founded with a clear mission that emerged from the founders identifying there is an urgent need for an alternative system to work alongside care‐affected girls and young women—one that bridges cultural, racial and gender divides. From inception, we recognised the importance of partnering with Impetus. This collaboration not only empowers us to build a sustainable, scalable organisation, but is also essential in demonstrating our impact, refining its measurement and collaborating with Impetus’ extensive network, as Sister System goes on our journey to empower the lives of the thousands of care‐affected girls across the UK.

Okela Douglas, Director and Founder, Sister System