The Mayor of London has invested millions into youth projects in Enfield and Haringey. Below is a list of activities funded by the Mayor for young people in either or both boroughs. The funding is either from the Young Londoners Fund, the Sports Unite funding, Violence Reduction Unit and Stepping Stones.
Abianda - Star Project
The Star Project is a specialist and structured one-to-one service for young women affected by gangs and county line activity. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with young women to explore issues such as: healthy relationships; sexual violence and exploitation and other VAWG issues in the context of gangs; risk for gang-affected young women and those involved with county line activity; anger, power, trauma and harm. We also provide rights-based wraparound advocacy for young women.
Contact: Lorraine - 0207 686 0520
ARCA Generation - ARCA Active
To support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and those who are at risk or involved in gangs, through the provision of recreational and educational activities, the support of qualified professionals and a relationship with the local police.
Contact: Flaminia - 020 3624 2273
Balik Arts - Youth Screen and Sound
This project allows young people, mainly but not only, from Turkish/Kurdish communities who are at risk of social exclusion or criminal activity to become meaningfully involved in music and film activities leading to participation in a festival of film and music in their local area. They will gain skills in music making and film literacy alongside valuable experience of festival production, through participation in high profile public events. They will become part of a network that offers long term opportunities both professionally and socially. Their role as active citizens will allow skills sharing with younger teens as the project progresses.
Contact: Yesim - info@balikarts.org.uk
Barnet Refugee Services - The Refugee Youth Well-Being Project
*Funded to also work in Enfield*. The Refugee Youth Well-Being Project (RYWP) will work with young refugees and asylum seekers 13-21 years struggling to cope with the trauma of conflict, upheaval and migration and resulting personal and mental health issues, to plan and deliver a range of activities designed to improve their mental health and well-being, support them in adjusting to life in the UK, and minimise the barriers to integration, which if not addressed, make them potentially vulnerable to exclusion or criminal influences. RYWP will also actively support those caring for young refugees on a daily basis through workshops and training events.
Contact: Nazee - 020 8905 9002
BTEG - Route to Success
Route2Success will reach 600 young people aged 10-18 from ethnic minority backgrounds, to provide positive role models from similar backgrounds, supporting with careers advice, entrepreneurial skills, making positive choices and guidance to overcome obstacles. Working with Schools, Pupil Referral Units, Young Offender Institutions and Prisons providing workshops delivered by our volunteer role models to inspire young people to think practically about the best way to realise their full potential in education and employment and equip them with tools to manage their social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Contact: Brianna - 0207 832 5800
Body and Soul - Transforming Adversity
Transforming Adversity will work with young people aged 10-21 living across London who are living with or affected by HIV. This group is usually at high risk of exclusion or involvement in criminal activity, is affected by a complex and stigmatising health conditions and has been exposed to a high number of adverse childhood experiences. Providing an integrated, holistic and transformative service to improve the health, wellbeing and connectivity of this vulnerable population, reducing the risk of their exclusion or involvement in criminal activity.
Contact: Kathryn - 0207 923 6880
Chickenshed
The project engages at-risk young people in activities that both educate them on the risks and consequences of gang and knife crime, and provide them with platforms to communicate their challenges, solutions and ambitions to communities and key strategic stakeholders.Project activities include workshops, performances, community debates, youth and professionals conferences and youth leadership training. Activities are all designed and delivered by staff and peers with comparable lived experiences.Through the activities young people are made aware of how their actions can affect positive change and improve their communities, empowering them to make their own positive choices.
Contact: Clara - 0208 216 2769
College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London
The Mentoring Plus Project will identify at-risk 14-21-year olds and offer support to maintain their engagement in the College and prevent drop out. Providing weekly mentoring/group and individual sessions with a psychotherapist who will work on their social/personal/mental health issues to ensure they are maintained on programme and are less likely to be drawn into anti-social activity and gangs.
Contact: Anthony - 0208 442 3805
ECPAT - Victims to Advocates
Victims to advocates! This project will train our youth programme members to become young ambassadors to campaign and advocate for themselves and their peers. They will gain skills in designing and implementing campaigns and events, and lead the way with ECPAT UK by delivering key messages to professionals, decision makers and the public, and changing the environment for at risk and trafficked children and young people. The youth ambassadors will become direct advocates for their peers by developing and delivering risk and self-care workshops and offering introduction and safety briefings for newly arrived young people or those identified as trafficked.
Contact: Debbie - 0207 607 2136
Edmonton Community Partnership - Dream, Believe, Succeed
The "Dream, Believe, Succeed" project is an alliance of partners that have come together as a collective with an ambitious vision to use performing arts and creation to ensure that children and young people in Edmonton, Enfield are listened to, inspired and enabled to meet their full potential and express the matters that mean the most to them.
Contact: Maria - 0208 360 3158
ELATT - Connected Youth
Connected Youth is a reengagement programme for young East Londoners and young people in Haringey aged 14-21 who are at risk of exclusion and have not yet succeeded within mainstream education settings due to SEND or other additional needs. Providing a holistic package including wraparound support and one-to-one mentoring which continues as young people progress from taster sessions to formal training or work experience - supporting them to achieve concrete positive outcomes.
Contact: Oran - 0800-0420-184
Enfield Council - Inspiring Young Enfield
Inspiring Young Enfield: A community led programme of locally delivered support, incorporating a public health approach and working with mainstream services, to help our most challenged young people make positive life choices, reconnect with their neighbourhoods and realise their true potential. With Enfield Council acting as catalyst, and young people at the heart of its development, we have gathered 20 community partners who will deliver a programme of 23 interconnected projects over the lifetime of the fund. The offer provides new opportunities to improve emotional and physical health, employment, mentoring and learning opportunities and access to sport, arts and culture.
Contact: Shaun - 0208 379 3638
Freedom from Torture
This project will improve the psychological wellbeing and social connectedness of 65 London-based children and young people who have suffered trauma from their experiences of torture overseas. Providing therapy, including art, music and football therapy, welfare/legal advice, and work with external agencies to ensure a joined-up support package to empower them to reach their potential.
Contact: 020 7697 7777
Godwin Lawson Foundation
To deliver in-school presentations around dangers of knife crime to 900 young people followed by targeted workshops and support for 40 young people across four schools in Enfield and Haringey.
Contact: Yvonne - 0203 751 7285
Hackney Play Association - My Space
This project will improve the psychological wellbeing and social connectedness of 65 London-based children and young people who have suffered trauma from their experiences of torture overseas. Providing therapy, including art, music and football therapy, welfare/legal advice, and work with external agencies to ensure a joined-up support package to empower them to reach their potential.
Contact: Cyril - 020 8985 3470
Haringey Council - Community Gold
Haringey Community Gold uses a strengths based public health approach to engaging young people and benefits from a network of connected community programmes to listen and respond to young people.
The programme made up of detached youth work and community programmes allows young people to find local provisions which range from sports, training and employment, future leaders programme, mental health support and a BAME careers service.
Contact: Eduardo - 0208 489 3571
Haringey Shed - Shed Academy
Volunteering project focused on performing art. A range of training workshops including an adventure away day up skilling young people with learning disabilities to build their confidence to volunteer in practical roles which will support the work of the organisation. Volunteering opportunities include leading drama sessions, set and costume, backstage design and writing.
Contact: Jim - 020 8801 7209
iHeart
Our project is an innovative early intervention helping young, vulnerable people at risk of exclusion/criminal activity realise real behaviour change. Over 10 dynamic classroom-based sessions, young people, involved throughout in project design, uncover their innate capabilities and self-confidence to deal with adversity and fulfil their potential. This leads to different and positive choices, with some becoming "Resilience Revolution" peer leaders/ambassadors. By disrupting the cycle of poor behaviour that results in school exclusions and which puts young people at risk of crime and gang-related activities, the project brings about meaningful personal change and sustainable impact in schools, families and communities.
Contact: Brian - 0208 912 1216
Khulisa
Face It: Social and Emotional skills training for young people at risk of exclusion
To provide specialist emotional and social skills training for young people who are at risk of being excluded from school and are at risk of becoming involved in youth violence and crime. Providing targeted and long-term support to help children develop the social and emotional skills, the emotional resilience and self-confidence they need to make more positive choices in their lives.
Contact: 0207 183 2647
iHeart
Our project is an innovative early intervention helping young, vulnerable people at risk of exclusion/criminal activity realise real behaviour change. Over 10 dynamic classroom-based sessions, young people, involved throughout in project design, uncover their innate capabilities and self-confidence to deal with adversity and fulfil their potential. This leads to different and positive choices, with some becoming "Resilience Revolution" peer leaders/ambassadors. By disrupting the cycle of poor behaviour that results in school exclusions and which puts young people at risk of crime and gang-related activities, the project brings about meaningful personal change and sustainable impact in schools, families and communities.
Contact: Brian - 0208 912 1216
London Play - Camp Build
Building on London Play's annual Go Kart construction days, young people will be recruited from adventure playgrounds to attend Camp Build weekends where they will learn skills such as woodwork, design, structural engineering and leadership. They will then return to their playgrounds and run skills workshops for other young people. Those young people will be recruited for the next Camp Build.
Contact: 0203 384 8510
Resources for Autism
We will support a group of 90 young people aged 14-19 who are vulnerable as a result of their autism and mental ill health. Our project will encourage them to break isolation and build resilience. Anxiety and social difficulties leaves them vulnerable to inappropriate friendships and exploitation, including online.
Contact: Rachael - 0208 458 3259
Scarabeus Aerial Theatre - Take Flight
A three-year inclusive aerial acrobatic skills development programme for young people aged 13-21, with priority given to those with mental health issues, BAME groups and people from low-income households. It enables them to develop inspiring physical skills, using Silks, Cocoons, Ropes, Trapeze, Harness and Chinese pole and creates a safe environment where they can challenge themselves, increasing their confidence and overcoming their fears for a brighter future.
Contact: Rachel - 020 3620 2325
Shpresa Programme
Shpresa will recruit 30 young people per year from the Albanian speaking community in London and will empower them to take on 'champion' roles in either healthy relationships, sport or heritage. Champions will each develop a programme of activities and presentations using their own experiences to inform the content and share these with other young people at schools and community organisations.
Contact: Luljeta - 020 7511 1586
Smart School Councils
We are launching a new civic engagement project, working with 64 young people at risk of exclusion/involvement in criminal activity to increase metacognitive skills, attainment and engagement with school. Participants will form a Communication Team who organise pupil-led meetings and facilitate social action, offering them positive opportunities to fulfil their potential and avoid involvement with criminal activity. The project will build on our existing work in 360 schools internationally, allowing us to offer more targeted engagement with at risk young people in the communities worst affected by youth violence.
Contact: Sam - 020 3642 8992
Streetz Ahead - Dance Giants
Dance Giants will support young people between the ages of 9-14 at risk of exclusion and those from families who have been exposed to issues of criminality. The project will provide mentoring, confidence/self-esteem support at the crucial stage of young people's development. The project will work with 5 schools (targeted neighbourhoods) & key youth agencies including the Haringey Community Gold YLF project to identify & engage young people needing early intervention. Trained mentors and dancers will support & create a stable environment to enable young people to achieve their potential and turn their lives around.
Contact: Olivia - 07956 987 387
The Big House Theatre Company
The Big House’s mission is to enable care leavers and at-risk young people to reach their full potential. We’re applying for a grant to deliver 6 Open House Projects (OHPs) over the next 3 years. OHPs are intensive 12-week projects which run twice per year. In each OHP, 15 young people participate in 4 weeks of drama/life skills workshops, before co-creating, rehearsing and performing in a full-scale original theatre production. Following this, young people receive 12-months support to help them take control of their lives and achieve personal goals; this includes one-to-one advice/guidance, counselling, weekly drop-ins, trips and mentoring.
Contact: Lydia - 0207 923 9955
The Film and Video Workshop
This project provides support to 72 young people aged 16-21 with special educational needs and disabilities at risk of exclusion or involvement in criminal activity. They will be recruited through our main partner (City and Islington College) where we have an office. The participants will engage with our intensive and tailored work experience programme for one day a week for between 4 to 12 months. This will take place in our two community businesses at our centre. These are a media production company and a computer and tech repair workshop.
Contact: Simon - 0207 607 8660
The Haringey Pirates
The Haringey Pirates will transform the literacy skills, confidence and perseverance of disadvantaged young people who are falling behind at school. It will provide a high quality, year-long, after-school learning programme, using one-to-one support to accelerate their literacy skills, reengage them with education and reduce their risk of social and educational exclusion.
Contact: Lily - 07706 002 254
The Twist Partnership
Make it Happen - To inspire young people to design and develop enterprise projects that draw on their personal ambitions and experience. Working with Twist facilitators, who lead by example, and foster the young people’s desire to be valued and recognised as a success and a network of effective professionals and business leaders with the power to turn their projects into reality.
Contact: Shankara - 020 7600 1411
Think Forward
My City, My Future (MCMF) will create a stronger community by supporting the most disengaged young people to develop the mindset and skills needed to make positive choices, improve their wellbeing and gain employment. Connecting the worlds of education, business and the community through a coaching programme it will help participants to gain self-belief and confidence needed for long-term wellbeing, resilience, positive choices and employability.
Contact: 020 3559 8390
The Twist Partnership
Make it Happen - To inspire young people to design and develop enterprise projects that draw on their personal ambitions and experience. Working with Twist facilitators, who lead by example, and foster the young people’s desire to be valued and recognised as a success and a network of effective professionals and business leaders with the power to turn their projects into reality.
Contact: Shankara - 020 7600 1411
WAC Arts
An early intervention programme for vulnerable young people of all abilities, including those at risk of exclusion or involvement in criminal activity. Transition engages those experiencing points of change aged 10-14 through accessible performing arts and digital media activities, which reflect their interests and backgrounds. Young people find their voice to translate their challenges into creative outputs, and develop their communication, social and independence skills, while forming positive relationships with peers and adults. Young people’s cultural identity is supported in a safe and nurturing environment, presenting them with positive role models who reflect their worlds.
Contact: Lindsey - 0207 692 5883