Routeways

We are a local charity that manage a range of projects funded by local and national funding streams.

Based in Plymouth, we deliver projects that serve to enhance the social and economic well being of communities by providing choice and opportunity for individuals. Our projects include:

• Beckly
• Devonport Park
• Adventure Breaks
• Beckly Sensations
• Equal Voices

Mission and Goals

Routeways' vision is for a society where people do not suffer through disadvantage. Our mission is to support and enable individuals, families, and communities to overcome barriers caused by disadvantage.

The charity is for the benefit of person's resident within the South West Peninsula including Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset (defined as area of benefit). Our objectives and principal activities are:

• The relief of unemployment for the public benefit in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment.
• To act as a resource for children, young people and families living in the area of benefit by providing advice, professional support and assistance and organising programmes of physical, educational and other activities as a means of:

(a) advancing in life and helping children, young people and families by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals

(b) advancing education

(c) reducing and preventing risk-taking behaviour such as substance misuse, teenage conception, anti-social and criminal behaviour

(d) providing recreational and leisure time activity in the interests of social welfare for people living in the area of benefit 

Find out more

• Families and individuals 
  We support families through a variety of projects, for example Victim Care
• Training and events
  Routeways deliver training and events that support people to sustain or find employment, for example First Aid Training 
• Schools and Community 
  We deliver activities to support schools and to help build communities, for example All Ways Apples, Dig for Devonport, Outdoor Education Advisory Service