Empowering Minds.
Inspiring Success.

Believe & Achieve exists to empower individuals to unlock their potential through personal development, training, and mentoring.

My vision is to create second chances and stronger futures by helping people believe in themselves and achieve more than they thought possible and not let their past define there future.

About Me

Lee

Founder and CEO

I’m Lee Weston, the Founder and CEO/Director of Believe & Achieve CIC, and a proud care-experienced change maker using my journey to empower others. My life has taken me through some of the hardest challenges a young person can face and those experiences are exactly why I built this organisation.

I spent nine years in the care system, moving through over 28 different placements. Constant change became normal. Stability didn’t exist. By 17, I received a five-year prison sentence, and it felt like every label and stereotype society puts on care-experienced young people had been placed on me at once.

But that wasn’t the end of my story, it was the turning point.

Inside, I made a promise to myself, my past wasn’t going to decide my future. I worked on myself, learned, unlearned, rebuilt, and came out determined to change the systems and mindsets that fail too many young people like me.

Today, I’m a professional change-maker and expert by experience, using every part of my journey to drive real change for care-experienced young people in Liverpool and across the county. I’ve worked across youth services, community spaces, charity environments, and empowerment programmes - always with one message at the heart of it:

Your story doesn’t define your future.

I created Believe & Achieve CIC because I know what it feels like to grow up without the support you deserve. I also know what’s possible when someone finally believes in you. Our work is built on real experience, compassion, and honesty. We don’t just talk about change, we live it.

My mission is simple:

To stand beside young people, not above them.
To create opportunities, not barriers.
To help care-experienced individuals build confidence, skills, and independence.
To prove that with the right support, every young person can build a future they’re proud of.

Believe & Achieve CIC exists because I never gave up on myself and now I won’t give up on anyone else.

What We Do

Level Up Program

Starting January 2026 for 6 weeks with a minimum of 2 sessions a week.

If you know a young person aged 16–25 who is care-experienced and wants support to overcome barriers or prepare for independence, this programme is for them.

Our Level Up Programme is fully funded, and travel support is provided, as well as snacks at every session! Includes workshops on:

Getting ready for independence & making a fresh start
Overcoming barriers and breaking negative cycles
Building positive habits and routines
Money management
“Day in a work life” (TBC)
CV writing and job skills
Cooking session
A celebration event with a £20 cash or voucher reward and much more!

We’re proudly partnered with Catch22 CLiC, who will deliver sessions and offer opportunities in education, training, or employment after the programme.

We’re also partnered with Positive Futures, including access to their Young Leaders Programme and other opportunities in their space.

This programme is created by someone who has been a care leaver themselves and understands the challenges our community faces.

Your past doesn’t define your future. Every young person deserves the chance to Believe & Achieve.

1-to-1 Mentoring at Believe & Achieve CIC

Our 1-to-1 mentoring is built for care-experienced young people and those who are getting pulled into the criminal justice system, and all young people who will benefit from 1-1 mentoring. It’s real, honest support delivered by someone who’s lived it, survived it, and turned it around.

This isn’t about ticking boxes or pushing services on you. It’s about giving young people what the system often doesn’t: consistency, guidance, and someone who actually understands what they’re facing.

I work with young people who are dealing with chaos, pressure, barriers, or just feeling stuck. Together, we cut through the noise and focus on the things that actually change lives:

Belief and confidence
Staying out of trouble and making better choices
Handling independence
Building routines and stability
Learning how to move forward without feeling alone
Having someone in your corner who really gets it

Every session is tailored to the young person. No judgement. No pretending. Just real talk, real support, and real progress.

If a young person feels like no one listens, no one understands, or they’re heading down a road they don’t want to stay on, this mentoring is for them. I’ve been where they are, and I’m proof that with the right support, you can level up and build something better.

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Workforce Training & Workshops – Believe & Achieve CIC

Our workforce training is designed for professionals who support care-experienced young people and those at risk of entering the criminal justice system. We deliver training that is professional, grounded in real experience, and focused on improving practice in a way that genuinely makes a difference.

These workshops aren’t theory-heavy sessions that get forgotten the next day. They are real, practical, and lived-experience–led, giving teams the insight and tools they need to engage young people more effectively.

What We Offer

Our sessions help staff understand the realities young people face, from instability in care to the pressures that lead to offending. We explore what works, what doesn’t, and how professionals can build trust with young people who have every reason not to let people in.

Workshops include themes such as:

Understanding care experience through a real lens
Barriers young people face when navigating services
How to build meaningful relationships with young people who don’t trust easily
Preventing offending and supporting positive choices
Communication that lands, not lectures that switch young people off
Resilience, independence, and preparing young people for the real world

Why This Training Matters

Staff often want to help but without the right insight, support can miss the mark. Our training gives teams practical strategies they can use immediately, supported by lived experience, professional practice, and frontline understanding.

Teams walk away with:

Better confidence working with high-need young people
A deeper understanding of complex behaviours
Tools to de-escalate, engage, and build trust
A clearer picture of how to support young people at risk of offending
Real stories and real learning that stays with them
Style of Delivery
Professional, engaging, and straight to the point.

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"The Mentoring helped me feel like I belong back into the community . ”

Young Person

"I am smashing life now, Thanks for lee who believed in me."

Young Person

"The sessions were fun and motivational for me to get out and about during my day. They were not intense or stressful in any way, really enjoyable. I learned more about how I fit into a community and society and little things like walks are good things to do. Lee was great in making me feel respected and listened too, I felt comfortable around him and he was easy to talk too. Lee made me feel more confident outside and in the world. I am more independent and outgoing thanks to the sessions from Lee. I liked how easy Lee was easy to talk too and despite being a red he was good to talk to about the football and was interested and engaged in all conversations. Lee was great and really helped me with myself and my mental health."

Young person

Partners and Funders

Believe & Achieve CIC thrives because of the amazing organisations that stand with us, either through partnerships or funding, empowering us to make a difference.