SYP Confidence CIC delivers mentoring, confidence coaching, after-school clubs, holiday camps, and family support for young people across Croydon and South London.
Select any area below to learn more. Every programme, strand, and partnership is designed with one goal — giving young people the confidence to thrive.
SYP Confidence CIC was founded on the belief that every young person deserves structured support to build confidence, resilience, and positive pathways — regardless of background or circumstance.
Everything we deliver is rooted in lived experience and professional safeguarding expertise. We build the support that was missing into structured programmes for the young people who need it most.
Our leadership team brings together youth work, housing, and statutory service expertise — strengthening our Safe Pathways strand and council referral network across Croydon and South London.
Our programmes are built on established youth development frameworks and continuously refined through participant feedback and outcomes data.
Every practitioner is DBS checked. We operate within robust safeguarding governance and partner with statutory agencies on complex cases.
We work in Croydon and South London — the same communities we serve. Local knowledge, local trust, local impact.
All programmes are delivered by trained, DBS-checked practitioners. School partnerships can access funded delivery. Contact us to discuss what is right for your setting.
Weekly after-school sessions combining homework support with structured confidence-building activities, social skills development, and peer support. Available to partner schools in Croydon.
Structured multi-day camps during Summer, Easter, and Half-term breaks. Teamwork, wellbeing activities, creative sessions, and mentoring in a safe, energising environment.
Regular weekend sessions for teenagers focused on confidence, communication, identity, future direction, and resilience. A space for young people to explore who they are and who they want to be.
Individual and group mentoring for young people facing challenges with confidence, self-belief, or behaviour. Referred through schools, social services, or partner organisations.
SYPC Services is the family-facing arm of SYP Confidence CIC. We provide intensive, wrap-around support for families navigating domestic violence, housing instability, and the long-term impact of family disruption on children's wellbeing and development.
We work with the entire family unit — not just the child. Parents and carers receive dedicated support alongside their children to create lasting stability.
Support with housing applications, council referrals, emergency accommodation pathways, and advocacy for families in crisis. We work alongside statutory housing teams.
Practical, non-judgemental coaching for parents on rebuilding routines, supporting their child's emotional recovery, and restoring confidence in their own abilities.
Children who have witnessed or experienced domestic abuse receive dedicated 1:1 and group support to process trauma, rebuild trust, and regain confidence.
We coordinate alongside social workers, IDVAs, health visitors, school DSLs, and council teams to ensure families receive a joined-up, coherent support plan.
SYPC Services accepts referrals from social workers, housing officers, IDVA services, family courts, and health teams. Families can also self-refer in confidence.
Make a ReferralSYP Safe Pathways is our specialist support strand for children and families affected by domestic abuse, family instability, and emotional disruption. Working in partnership with councils, housing teams, and referral agencies, we provide a joined-up pathway from crisis to long-term confidence recovery.
Safe Pathways referral forms are not publicly available online. Authorised professionals may request a secure referral link by contacting us directly.
Request a Secure Referral LinkConfidence rebuilding, emotional support, and structured mentoring for children affected by DV exposure.
Guidance, signposting, and confidence rebuilding for parents navigating recovery.
Housing-linked support with council referral connections and advocacy.
Social workers, schools, health visitors, IDVA services, and family support workers.
We know that young people thrive when their families are supported too. Everything we do involves parents and carers as partners, not bystanders.
Families receive regular updates on their young person's progress, attendance, and achievements through our programmes.
Periodic parent sessions on supporting confidence at home, understanding anxiety in young people, and building communication.
If a family needs more than SYP can offer, we signpost warmly to appropriate statutory and voluntary services, including Safe Pathways support.
We actively seek partnerships with schools, local authorities, housing services, health providers, and voluntary organisations to extend our reach and deepen our impact.
We deliver in-school programmes and can provide a named point of contact for safeguarding referrals, pastoral coordination, and programme reports.
Council early help teams, social care, and youth services can refer directly to SYP. We operate within Croydon borough and align with Early Help frameworks.
IDVA services, refuges, housing providers, and family courts can refer families to SYP Safe Pathways. Warm referral process, clear data protocols.
Interested in becoming a referral partner or funder?
We are actively seeking grant funders, corporate partners, and commissioners who share our vision. SYP programmes are commissioned by schools and local authority. We can provide a referral briefing pack, programme information sheet, and safeguarding policy.
Become a volunteer practitioner, join our team, or partner your organisation. Every contribution directly benefits young people in our community.
Support our cause by donating or sponsoring a young person to access a SYP programme. Every contribution funds direct delivery in Croydon.
Donate to SupportSYP Confidence CIC was not created from a business plan — it was created because it needed to exist. Our leadership team knows firsthand what it means to navigate difficult systems, uncertain foundations, and environments that should have offered more support. That is precisely why we built this.
Denise founded SYP Confidence CIC from a deep-rooted conviction that young people deserved better — better systems, better support, and people around them who truly understood the terrain they were navigating.
Her professional background spans years of direct mentoring and coaching with young people, and peer support work focused on relationships, identity, and emotional resilience. She has provided training and worked within the back office of NHS mental health services as a data manager — bringing an understanding of how statutory systems function, what gets recorded, and critically, what often gets missed. Her background also extends into entertainment and financial accounting, giving SYP a founder who understands both creative engagement and the commercial discipline needed to run a sustainable organisation.
Alongside her professional experience, Denise brings something that cannot be taught — personal knowledge of what it means to navigate instability, adversity, and environments that were not always safe. She does not speak about young people's experiences from a distance. She speaks from understanding. That lived insight shapes every programme SYP delivers.
Anthoney brings a wealth of frontline and systemic experience that makes him an exceptional asset to the families SYP works with. His background is rooted in supporting families affected by domestic violence — walking alongside them through crisis, through the council system, and towards stability.
Having worked across multiple London boroughs, Anthoney holds well-established relationships with local authority teams, housing services, and statutory agencies — relationships built on trust, consistency, and a genuine commitment to outcomes for families. He understands how councils operate, how referral pathways work, and how to advocate effectively within systems that can feel impenetrable to those trying to navigate them alone.
Anthoney also has direct experience working with SEND children — including those with autism and ADHD — bringing specialist understanding of the additional layers of challenge these young people and their families face, and the tailored, patient approach that creates real change.
"We did not build SYP because it was a good idea. We built it because we know what it feels like when the support is not there — and we refused to let that be someone else's story."
Denise Shaw, Founder & Executive Director — SYP Confidence CIC
From first contact to lasting change — a simple, supported process for every partner and family.
Reach out by email, phone, or fill in our contact form. Tell us about your school, setting, or family situation. We respond within 3 working days.
We will talk through your needs, the young people you are supporting, and which programme would work best. No obligation, no pressure.
We deliver the agreed programme with full safeguarding compliance. Funded partners receive an impact summary on completion.
Become a volunteer practitioner, join our team, or partner your organisation. Every contribution directly benefits young people in our community.
Support our cause by donating or sponsoring a young person to access a SYP programme. Every contribution funds direct delivery in Croydon.
Donate to Support"The mentoring and support provided by SYP Confidence have been life-changing for my child. Thank you for all that you do."
Parent of a young person supported by SYP Confidence
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We partner with primary and secondary schools across Croydon to deliver after-school confidence clubs, in-curriculum confidence sessions, and pastoral support. All programmes are free or subsidised for state schools.
We accept referrals from DSLs and SENCO leads. All programmes are delivered in line with your safeguarding policy.