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A society where care-experienced women are visible, celebrated, and equipped to lead and inspire.
Care to Crown is a Northampton-based social enterprise dedicated to empowering care-experienced young people to reach their full potential — both on and off the pageant stage.
Our mission is to holistically support young people with care leaver status by providing the tools, opportunities, and confidence needed to compete on equal footing in national pageant platforms such as Miss Universe Great Britain.
We achieve this through an integrated programme of:
Mental health and wellbeing support – connecting participants with advocacy, mentoring, and self-esteem resources.
Education and personal development – helping them access training, courses, and qualifications that align with their ambitions.
Career and networking opportunities – linking participants to professional experiences and contacts that build sustainable, long-term success.
By providing tailored guidance, practical resources, and a community of empowerment, Care to Crown works to level the playing field for care leavers — ensuring they have the same access, visibility, and self-sustaining networks as their peers.
Our long-term goal is to create a cycle of representation and empowerment, where each participant becomes a role model for the next generation of care-experienced young women.
1-1 Mentoring and advocacy sessions
1-1 Mentoring and advocacy sessions
Discover your core values
What you feel is your life's purpose
Speak to industry experts
Define clear, actionable goals around Health, career, finances, and advocacy
Create your 6 week roadmap to get there.
It's free to cis /trans female care leavers, so what are you waiting for?
Pilot scheme
Pilot scheme
To celebrate care leavers month I will be running a pilot scheme of in person classes on:
Personal branding
Interview technique
Styling
and learning to walk in heels!
Open to cis/trans female care leavers aged 18-23 and under Northampton Children's trust.
Want to make new friends who are just as ambitious as you?
You'll even receive 6 weeks of 1-1 Mentoring and advocacy sessions, running alongside in person classes .
It's free to cis /trans female care leavers, so what are you waiting for?
A photo of Charlotte Levy competing in the interview round at the pageant "Miss Universe great britain"
A donation made by the Miss Universe GB official fundraising vehicle, "A-sisterhood" to the Bristol based charity "one 25". One 25 supports women who are street sex-working go from Crisis to independence. In the photo, contestants are presenting a check to one 25. Charlotte is stood second to the left.
Charlotte levy speaking to journalist John Maguire on BBC breakfast about Miss universe great britain and her campaign with the national charity for care leavers "Become" to #endthecarecliff. Care to crown aims to offer media training on how to run a successful campaign to safeguard the girls taking part in care to crown.
Applied the social media skills taught through the miss universe process to create a highly engaged, leading tiktok page for care leavers for ongoing campaigns.
The story of care to crown...
The story of care to crown...
When I left the foster care system, I felt totally stagnant. Whilst I was stable in life, with a job stacking shelves in a supermarket and a one bedroom flat; I knew I was meant for more.
My name's Charlotte Levy and I am the creator of care to crown, a pageant coaching programme for care leavers in Northampton.
I had always dreamed of changing the law ; speaking at the UN and making real change for the better... something amazing! But I couldn't verbalise what it was I wanted to do.
I loved the civil rights work of Gina martin; I wanted to be a doctor; dog groomer; and Victoria's secret model.
I had all these ideas whizzing around my brain ; but I didn't know the routes to take to get there.
As you can tell all VERY different dreams, but all as equally important to me!
After feeling totally lost, I entered Miss Universe on a whim, noticing a theme in how all the previous pageant contestants had gone onto excel in life.
...and I actually got in!
Miss Universe Great Britain was a whole life audit that broke down the shame and stigma I held around my care leaver status. The different rounds and awards up for grabs taught me skills in learning how to fundraise; speak to media; run a successful campaign; how to take care of my health; how I present myself.
But most importantly, who I am.
Now, I want to extend that opportunity to other women who have systematically had the credibility stripped from their voices. whether thats care leavers, victims of domestic abuse or human traffiking.
So many lessons can be learnt from these tenacious women to implement policy that makes our world a better place. They just need a platform that believes in young people; helps them carve out their goals; amplifies their message to know how to do it, and have a community of sisterhood that will support them no matter what.
In the same way people set a marathon as a goal to get fit, Miss universe was a date and time I'd have to reach my goals.
and now, I have a job lined up in the civil service; have lost 15kg; and a group of friends who love me for who I am!
When you leave care, you can feel like you're alone. I want care leavers to know :
"you're not alone ; you're part of a sisterhood now"
Glossary
Care leaver: someone who has been in the care of the Local Authority for a period of 13 weeks or more spanning their 16th birthday.
Care leaver: someone who has been in the care of the Local Authority for a period of 13 weeks or more spanning their 16th birthday.
Care experienced: any child or young person who has spent time in the care system, which is a broad term that includes various placements like foster care, residential care, kinship care, or being adopted after care.
Care experienced: any child or young person who has spent time in the care system, which is a broad term that includes various placements like foster care, residential care, kinship care, or being adopted after care.
Mentoring: supportive, trust-based, and confidential relationship where an experienced person (the mentor) advises and guides a less experienced person (the mentee) to develop their professional and personal goals.
Advocacy: helping you navigate policy which dictates your rights and entitlements to fulfil your goals.
Get in touch
Get in touch
Even if you don't meet the criteria mentioned above, I'm more than happy to have a quick chat to see if i know of any other organisations/ schemes that can help!
Contact
Hello@caretocrown.co.uk
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