MOPAC have funded The Selby Trust’s HEY Network to run the ‘Step Forward’ volunteering project. Step Forward aims to find local volunteers who wish to give time to help young people in Enfield and Haringey. Volunteers will be given a full induction, on going training and be placed in one of the activities funded by […]
Our Response to the Youth Select Committee Report – “Our Generation’s Epidemic: Knife Crime”
Our Co-ordinator, Seema Chandwani responds to the Youth Select Committee Report on Knife Crime: As public sector institutions go into bureaucracy over-drive believing we can solve Serious Youth Violence through increasing the quantity of reports written, there is one I urge those in positions of power to read, and it is this. The Youth Select […]
Violence Reduction Unit to invest £4.7m to cut school exclusions
New funding to support teachers to keep children in schools Additional funding will go towards after-school provision to help keep young Londoners safe Working with London’s schools is a key part of the Mayor’s public health approach to tackling violence The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today announced London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) is […]
Next phase of Mayor’s Young Londoners Fund announced
Sadiq boosts 36 projects delivering programme of activities for young Londoners, including those most at risk of getting caught up in crime Almost 10,000 at-risk young Londoners to benefit from latest phase of £45m Young Londoners Fund London has lost 81 youth centres and 800 full time youth workers as a result of £39m of […]
Mayor’s Young Londoners Fund
The Mayor has created the Young Londoners Fund to help London’s children and young adults make the most of our amazing city. The Mayor’s £45 million Young Londoners Fund is helping children and young people to fulfil their potential, particularly those at risk of getting caught up in crime. It is supporting a range of education, sport, […]