Our Mission

Our mission at The Exit Group is to bridge the gap between local youth that suffer a lack of confidence and experince in a work inviromet. 

As you know in most cases jobs roles require experince whcih is something your advarage teenager or even a college graduate would lack. much less the youth that do not come from a upstanding back ground, have been exposed to trumatic events or have had a little to no support in there growth. kids that have finished school with not good grades or didnt get the chance to finish school. These kind of circumstances will never give a youth a fair chance at gaining employment.

A youth coming from this type of background will always feel that feel more comfertable in a enviromet made up of people that seem to have the same mindset as them due to mannerisim, vocabulary, sense of dress, the way they articulate themselves and general confidence issues. this then goes on to create a cycle which sees a certain type of youth in employed and a certain type of youth out of employment.

After many coversations with local youth from gang members to general school leaver and ex convics we have come to the conclusion that they have a mindset of 'getting in where you fit in" and unfortunatly for alot of youths from crime ridden areas like Croydon, Lambeth, southwark and surrounding areas this means they will gravitate towards the class of people that come from the same back ground as them, lacking the same confidence as them and sharing simular social struggles as them. 

Since running these employent programs we have realised that its more then these young people choosing a life of crime and more the fact that they dont see and have no one to show them the value in themselves. no one to show themhow to obtain skills that suit them or may put them in a better space and mindset to obtain employment or even become an entrapuner. 

School is supposedly the bridge that suports the mind set of a child and prepares them for the civil world where they understnd what it takes to be upstanding in the community.

After analising the relationships between pupils, parents and schools we found schooling is not helping with all the youth paticularly youth that are academicly struggling or youth that struggle with authority. 

School teaches youth to listen and do as your told but it does not cater to creative thinkers or youth that have abilitiesboutside of school exspectations. The school employ a majority of teachers that come from a middle class back ground and have no experience with kids from diprived back grounds which then creates a lack of understanding and ends up in that child being demonised for the issues they pressent to the school.

This then creates an inviroment for the youth that seems to be against them as they are met with pointless detentions, seclutions & exclutions which leaves the youth feeling like a social reject. Social rejection leads to frustration and anger at this point again the youth will tend to get in where they fit in which is with other kids that are going through simular situations and facing simular circumstances. 

Our focus is on creating a space for indviduals such as kids thats been susspended, not done to well in school, suffer with social anxiety, grown up in a gang/crime ridden enviromets, school leavers, or ex offenders to come and be themeselfs without judgement. we want to grow them in to the best vertion of themselves through our programs, mentorships and training scemes. we have the ability to install confindents in these indaviduals allowing them to be upstanding in society. 

we believe everyone deserves the oppotunity to become the best version of themselevs but not everyone has the oppotunity to and thats our mission to create that oppotunity.