Crime has a significant and negative impact on societies progressive development and a direct relationship to violence. Often it is societies most vulnerable groups that are most susceptible to its impact becoming victims to acts of crime and perpetrators of it particularly within areas of extreme poverty and high rates of social exclusion in which crime is also often seen as the only opportunity for progress. We aim to address this by targeting communities that face high rates of crime to develop aspirations within them and support these aspirations with positive opportunity and skill development programmes that enable viable alternatives to the use of crime, address issues of anger and grievance and channel this away from violence to empower people blighted by it to progress positively in life. In sum, we aim to break the chain of crime that often runs within communities by creating stronger links to opportunity for those that are most vulnerable to it.

The Foundation also aims to work with offenders and support their rehabilitation as well as their reintegration into wider society by supporting them to explore the factors that eventually resulted in their imprisonment, develop their confidence and skills for employment and enterprise and be able to manage conflicts that they will face in later life in a manner that moves them away from the path of crime the use of violence.