We provide a safe and sustainable home to unaccompanied asylum seeking children aged 16-18. We strive to be a responsive and wholesome residential community committed to reciprocal learning.
Our mission is to offer young people person-centred support and positive challenges through our programmes. Activities include creative workshops, mentoring, sports, English language tutoring and a variety of therapies according to needs, talents and interests.
Our aim is to empower each young person by building on their resilience and the reconciliation of their trauma. We encourage and facilitate independence, self-reliance and integration into local communities and UK society as a whole.
We offer a comprehensive trauma-informed legal network to support individual asylum claims. This ensures that each young person’s best interests and future choices are upheld and protected.
We encourage relationship building and the bridging of cultural barriers. Our diverse and experienced staff team is on duty 24/7 and works to place young people into local schools as soon as possible, whilst inspiring the participation in academic and vocational opportunities and local community initiatives.
Our vision is to create a model that can be replicated in communities throughout the UK and beyond.
Above all Enthum House is a safe, wholesome and responsive community committed to continual learning. These values form the stable basis for resolution of young people’s trauma while also building on their resilience and resourcefulness to prepare them as best as possible for independence and a self-reliant future, including for possible removal back to their home countries at age 18.
The young people who live with us have had to flee their homes and in many cases put on hold the nurture they would normally receive from their families. The slow rebuilding of a sense of inner and outer safety and trusting relationships is a major element in any trauma recovery and forms the basis of our person-centered Therapeutic Integration Programme (TIP).
