Lads Need Dads aims to empower boys coming from fatherless homes who are under achieve at school, struggle with their mental health, are excluded from school or engage in offending behaviour. The project supports boys age 11-15 with absent fathers or limited access to a male role model, to be motivated, responsible, capable, resilient and emotionally competent to prevent them becoming at risk of under achieving, offending, exclusion or dropping out of school. The group will use funding to continue operating over the three years and deliver six, 18-month programmes which would help 48 boys and their families. The programmes will incorporate personal development, outdoor activities, practical life-skill training, community volunteering, peer mentoring and leadership opportunities.