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Lads Need Dads CIC

Tendring, Colchester and Basildon | Counselling, Advice & Mentoring

Empowering fatherless boys aged 10–18 through mentoring, life skills, and guidance.

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Lads Need Dads Mission is:

“ To equip, engage and inspire boys and young men aged 10-18 with absent fathers or limited access to a positive male role model, to enable them to reach their full potential.”


“To provide support, guidance and training to mothers and carers raising boys alone.”


“To raise awareness and understanding of the important role fathers play in the emotional, mental and educational development and well-being of boys.”

Our impact:

The impact that Lads Need Dads has on boys and young men is transformative and long-lasting. Many of the boys who join our programmes are struggling with low confidence and motivation, mental health issues or a deep sense of loss due to the absence of a father figure. Through consistent mentoring, life-skill development, outdoor activities and community volunteering alongside positive male role models, boys begin to rebuild trust, self-belief, and purpose.

Over time, we see remarkable improvements in emotional regulation, social behaviour, school engagement, alongside reductions in exclusions and offending risk. Boys who once felt disconnected and overlooked start to thrive - developing resilience, empathy, and leadership qualities that ripple outward into their families, schools, and communities.

Lads Need Dads is led by a team of highly experienced Directors with backgrounds in Education, Criminal Justice, and Health and Social Care, and is supported by a dedicated team of male volunteer mentors - men from all walks of life, aged between 20 and 75 - who give their time, skills, and experience to guide and inspire the boys we support.

Lads Need Dads is a Not-For-Profit Community Interest Company based Essex, delivering across North East and South Essex but with a national and international reach. 

What your gift could provide

£25

A group mentoring session

£45

A practical lifeskill workshop

£75

An outdoor activity day

Our details

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£18.22k raised from 24 pages

Festive fundraiser for Lads Need Dads

£0 raised since December 2025

Camino Invierno 200 mile solo pilgrimage Fundraiser for Lads Need Dads

£1.21k raised since September 2025

Pilgrimage Fundraiser

£0 raised since September 2025

Essex Emergency Services IMD 2024

£666.25 raised since November 2024

Fundraising for Lads Need Dads on International Men's Day 2024

£517.75 raised since September 2024

LADS NEED DADS - Quiz Night at Steam

£1.55k raised since September 2024

BRIGHTON MARATHON - 07.04.2024

£1.81k raised since January 2024

RK Marathon Run

£2.01k raised since November 2023

195+ Mile Coast to Coast Trek 2024

£1.38k raised since October 2023

In Memory of Richard Howlett

£1.86k raised since March 2023

Emergency Services IMD Conference

£131.25 raised since October 2022

SPD Thames Path Challenge

£745 raised since August 2022

Lads need dads fundraising disco

£598.75 raised since April 2022

In Memory

£100 raised since April 2022

TTC Colour Run

£1.73k raised since June 2021

Charity Weekend Motorcycle Rally

£0 raised since June 2020

COVID-19 - Homage to the real Heroes of Telemark

£342.5 raised since April 2020

Charity Motorcycle Weekend Rally

£125 raised since March 2020

Micah's Colour Run

£80 raised since July 2017

Owen's 1K Colour Run

£200.25 raised since July 2017

Annies attempt to run ..... 5k for lads need dads

£80 raised since June 2017

Nicolas 5k colour run for lads need dads

£211.25 raised since June 2017

Colour 5km Run

£205 raised since March 2017

Running 83 miles for Lads and Dads!

£2.65k raised since January 2017