1. Genuine Futures
  2. About Us

Community Focused Support

Unlocking Peoples Potential
We Know What We Do Works.

Genuine Futures designs and delivers services that empowers, inspires and motivates igniting the spark of resilience raising the aspirations in people of all ages within our communities.

Our sole purpose and focus is empowering local communities and helping disadvantaged young people (and adults) to have a brighter, genuine future through the delivery of personal development, mentoring and wellbeing programmes. We operate on a premise of trust, respect and integrity, which extends to all of our dealings with communities, government and business leaders.

“I love what you are doing with all of the young people, and how you are just helping them change their lives, with what you guys are doing, with all the transferable skills that they are learning, that they can take with them for the rest of their lives.”

Meet the team behind Genuine Futures

Sam Smith

Sam’s childhood isolation and lack of support fuelled his lifelong passion for aiding young people. Using his own experiences, he empowers minds and transforms lives through education, entrepreneurship, and social justice. With over 23 years in training, education, and enterprise, he began his first business from his car boot with a bucket and sponge.

Charlotte Hamblet

Charlotte is the Education Programme Lead at Genuine Futures CIC, supports young people in building skills for education and employment, and boosting confidence. A Senior Science Instructor and Lecturer, she upholds trust, equality, and fun in engaging, motivational learning.

Gemma Anyon

Gemma is our dedicated health and well-being leader at Genuine Futures. Gemma actively works in schools and universities across the North West, tirelessly advocating for mental health awareness and support.

Julie Wiggs

Julie is a highly motivated professional with over 30 years in Business Administration/Management, Investigation & Intelligence, Legal Services, and Leadership. Her career spans HM Customs & Excise/UK Border Force and the private sector, showcasing her reliability and extensive experience.

Stephen Howard 

Stephen is the Youth Ambassador for Genuine Futures. He passionately supports the next generation, focusing on the homeless and mentoring young adults. Witnessing the transformational journeys at Genuine Futures is a source of great pride and joy for him.

John Wright

John Wright runs All Fired Up, established in 2020, offering handcrafted pizzas from his mobile van. He firmly believes in giving every young person, irrespective of background, the opportunity to reach their full potential with proper guidance.

Sue Willet
Going back to her school days one of the choices that she made was to go down the path of business admin. Sue is extremely helpful and caring, and thrives on this. She helps people in many, many ways and always puts others before herself and goes out of her way to help. She has been running her own business: NW Secretarial & PA Service for nearly 20 years with a variety of clients and over the years has been privy to lots of personal and confidential information working with HR Consultants, Solicitors and Case Managers being just a few. So it made perfect sense for Sue to join the Genuine Futures team helping the young people around us.

Mike Alleyne

Mike Alleyne, with 30 years in business spanning private and public sectors including a significant decade at Manchester City Council, is driven by making a difference, especially in supporting young people with mental health issues.

Lisa Avery

Lisa is a positive psychologist, coach, and speaker, who uses positive psychology – the science of optimal human functioning – in an array of settings. Her past projects have involved the design and delivery of interventions to clients in Education, Government, the NHS, charities, and the corporate world.

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