Funding Futures is an innovative response to a need we saw for women who have a social and economic disadvantage. We are a social enterprise designed to offer opportunities for women to build a future for themselves.

We provide a safe and professional environment where women can grow holistically – encouraging ambition, restoration and second chances. We use beauty and wellbeing as a tool to take women on a journey to employability and entrepreneurship, equipping them with transferable skills for the working world.

We offer courses, qualifications, work experience and paid employment within our salons, empowering women to build their career.

By investing in women - through training, employment, and community - we aim to break cycles of poverty, violence & disadvantage once and for all.

Welcome to Funding Futures

Co Founder
Hayley Darroch

Our Story So Far

Our founders, Hayley & Billy Darroch have run H Darroch Ltd T/A HD Beauty since 2020 - a beauty education and treatment business comprising three salons, a training centre and a wholesale shop, providing a self-sustaining supply chain.

Aware of our social responsibility in late 2021 we started supporting several secondary schools in Bolton & Wigan , and this quickly grew to offering vocational training to alternative provision children.

Our community work quickly grew into supporting local homeless, youth and domestic abuse charities. This has enabled us to offer a path for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged women and girls to employability. Over the next 18 months, demand vastly outweighed our ability to supply and independently fund as an SME’s social value initiative. We are very proud to launch UK Funding Futures CIC so that that we can implement a robust business plan to generate income, attract funding and form strategic partnerships to create real social impact to the local women and girls that need it most.

Who We Support and How

Funding Futures was founded to support disadvantaged young girls and women.

This includes those that have experienced:

Domestic abuse
Homelessness
Racism
Poverty

Child neglect
Prison
Young people in care
Care leavers

We can work with young girls from the age of 11 in a school setting or from 16+ at our dedicated training centre.

We believe women need community. Too often violence, trauma and poverty isolate women from this. The road to freedom is often long and complex which is why we offer a wrap-around service that starts with a safe space, wellness and support sessions.

When ready, we progress to learning key transferable skills and education, this is a pathway to employability. Never alone, our graduates are supported and welcomed for life.