Abbey Youth are a local community football club who have been the heartbeat of Waltham Abbey since it's formation in 1975.

Generations of families have played for, coached and supported this fantastic club and it is stronger than ever.

We currently facilitate over 250 local boys and girls playing the sport they love in a friendly, safe and fun driven environment.

We continue to serve the community in other ways as well, supporting local projects and charities as well as providing football kits for all our local feeder Primary schools. Our aim is to support young people on their football journeys - wherever this may lead them, and to do this in a non pressured  and fun way.

Drama in education and assessment specialists.

Our work is current, inclusive and engaging. We listen to and celebrate the authentic voice of the under-represented. We want to use drama to improve the lives of others, and to provide a voice for the marginalised and under-represented. We are funded by a range of educational and charitable organisations that make our work possible.

"Act On It online sessions are fun - with drama games and activities that build your performance skills and confidence. Everybody is really friendly and the sessions gave me the confidence to develop, share and use my own creative ideas.''

For over 30 years, All Change has been bringing artists and communities together, producing original and authentic arts projects and experiences, which develop understanding and make connections between people.

We work with people of all ages and backgrounds, especially those who would not usually have the opportunity to participate in the arts. All our projects are cross art form and interdisciplinary, led by exceptional artists. We are committed to using the arts for social change. We believe that creativity is a valuable life skill and that involvement in the arts can make a difference to individuals and communities. We have seen our work transform lives. Our work reaches people of all ages and backgrounds, especially those who would not usually have the opportunity to participate in the arts. Working with artists, participants tell their stories and express their ideas, creating work which challenges perceptions and exceeds expectations, promoting understanding and making lasting connections between people. Participants develop skills and confidence, and broaden their horizons. We involve people in high quality, powerful arts experiences, which support them to think differently and to instigate change in their lives. All Change delivers a rolling programme of combined arts projects in community settings.

Each project is unique and tailor-made, led by professional artists working in collaboration with communities to explore ideas and create original work. Projects involve combinations of art forms including digital arts, theatre, dance, music, sound, spoken word, creative writing and photography – and result in high quality and original work shared through unique and authentic arts experiences.

Art-Alive Arts Trust was formed in 1997 and registered as a charity in 2001, with the aim of helping children, adolescents and young vulnerable adults find an opportunity or platform to realise their potential and find their place in society through Arts and Creativity. AAAT employs the therapeutic and educational benefits of art tuition and works primarily with three groups: Primary school children with behavioural, and or, learning difficulties, Young vulnerable adults and -unemployed, homeless, at risk of being homeless or even risk of offending, giving them purposeful activities to do.

As a youth worker, you strive to support young people's personal and social development, raise their aspirations and broaden their horizons for future education, training and careers. One way you can do all of this – and gain accreditation for your creative projects – is with Arts Award.

If you work or volunteer with young people and provide artistic, cultural or media activities, then Arts Award is for you. Across the UK it enriches young lives in after-school clubs, Scout and Guide troops, holiday schemes, young offender units, youth clubs, children's homes, charity projects, homeschool groups and more.

Established In 2008, Burdett FC is an established grassroot community football organisation. Our Motto is more than just a football club, beyond high quality football services, we also provide community outreach, youth, community development, tackling poverty, welfare support and empowerment services to marginalised communities and residents within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Greater London.

They have been recently funded to deliver the football-based ‘Ballers’ program to young people who are most at risk of becoming victims or perpetrators of crime and channel them into positive activities.

The website may not yet be online, but contact can be made via Crystal Place Dome, Ledrington Road, London, SE19 2BB, Tel: 07527569128.

“Ballers club is a south London Based Football Academy which helps put players into pro/semi-pro & amateur football clubs. Play in one of our showcase matches against semi pro/pro development teams and get the chance to possibly be scouted. We offer training sessions on Saturday mornings for 6-12 year olds for £1 per session.”

Barking and Dagenham Youth Forum (BADYF) was set up in 2001 by young people to have a say in issues affecting their lives and communities.

Today, the forum, comprising of 13 to 19 year olds elected by peers in schools and youth groups, continues to have a say and influence on policy makers.

Some of the issues we care about:

crime
health
education
building a positive image of young people
what to do and where to go
How to get involved
To be part of BADYF you must live, work or be in education or training in Barking and Dagenham.

Elections are held every January in all Barking and Dagenham secondary schools and Trinity School. Ask your teachers about the BADYF elections in your school.

If you don't go to a school or youth group in Barking and Dagenham, or if there is an issue you want the forum to investigate, get in touch.

We offer creative learning opportunities for schools based around topics within the curriculum and bespoke projects and events with community groups of all ages; we are passionate about offering unique and exciting opportunities to those who have little access to media arts.

Blueprint: Film Foundation was formed in 2007 to deliver film and multimedia projects to community groups and education establishments across the UK with bases in Lincoln and London.

Blueprint Arts deliver outdoor arts, filmmaking, theatre and multimedia projects and courses and arts/cultural festivals for and with a range of communities, organisations and education establishments. We aim to inspire people from disadvantaged backgrounds, to address social issues, to help enrich people's lives, to increase access to creative media and to strengthen communities through the arts.

Box Up Crime are passionate about getting young people out of crime each year. Inspired in 2012 from the loss of valued friends due to gang affiliation and crime, Stephen Addison launched the project ‘Box Up Crime’ in 2013. They provides social change though social innovation, using sports – in particular boxing, as a tool to inspire, educate and develop young individuals, specifically those who have been involved in crime.

Sport is used as a foundation to continually create awareness and confidence building with communities. We strive to develop strong relationships with secondary schools within the borough, promising to provide assistance to improve student’s behaviour.

Cardboard Citizens aims to create space for people in society through engaging & unlocking the life changing and unlimited possibilities of theatre and art. We do it with a conscious heart, soul & brain for, with and by the people that don't feel like they have a home because of lived experience of homelessness, poverty, or societal inequity. We engage deeply and creatively with the injustices of our society, and we invite everyone to play a part.

Cardboard Citizens creates work with and for people who experience homelessness, inequity, or poverty. We provide theatre/art/training that explores, interrogates, and challenges the injustices that are most alive in our world. We believe that theatre and art can transform, that it can challenge the individual to grow and ignite a fire in the belly of wider society to change.

Casual Ballerz focuses on more than developing football ability. We have a large focus on developing young people's resilience, empowerment and mindset for success regardless of the subject or field they wish to pursue. Casual Ballerz has a unique youth development structure that works on developing self-belief, goal setting, increasing motivation and life skill advancement. Developing a 'Casual Ballerz Mindset' is a lifestyle that is embraced and embodied throughout. It is based on the success habits of the most successful people in sport and business worldwide. Our youth development framework is also tailored to match the needs, desires and barriers that young people face daily.

We are A LOT more than football.

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Deep Listening, as developed by Pauline Oliveros, explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary, selective nature of listening. The practice includes bodywork, sonic meditations, and interactive performance, as well as listening to the sounds of daily life, nature, one's own thoughts, imagination, and dreams. It cultivates a heightened awareness of the sonic environment, both external and internal, and promotes experimentation, improvisation, collaboration, playfulness, and other creative skills vital to personal and community growth.

Deep Listening® is a practice developed by pioneering composer Pauline Oliveros to enhance and expand listening abilities and to encourage creative work. In three sessions, over a two-week period, this course offers an experiential introduction to Deep Listening through collaborative and individual explorations in Sound, Dreaming, and Movement. Each session is 2.5 hours in length, and runs over 3 consecutive Saturdays, via Zoom.

The Change Foundation is an award-winning charity that uses sport to change the lives of marginalised young people. We deliver targeted long-term interventions for the most vulnerable young people through Coach Mentors with lived experience, providing regular sport, personalised mentoring and work-related opportunities.

Formed in 2010, the Chelsea Foundation brings together the Football in the Community and the Education department along with the clubs, and other charitable and community activities, including our international work and anti-discrimination projects.

As one of the world’s leading football social responsibility programmes the Chelsea Foundation uses the power of football and sport to motivate, educate and inspire. We believe that the power of football can be harnessed to support communities and individuals both at home and abroad.

On top of our outstanding football development programmes, the Chelsea Foundation works on a broad range of initiatives focusing on employment, education, social deprivation, crime reduction, youth offending and much more.

This website has links to arts, cultural, and health based projects. It champions assistance for families and those with special needs. It works to support the criminal justice system to produce good outcomes.

“Clinks supports, promotes and represents the voluntary sector working in the criminal justice system to ensure it can provide the services people need. Our priorities are guided by our members.  Read about Clinks and our members here.

Our work areas below detail the variety of work we undertake to realise our vision. We provide information on the challenges facing the sector, what Clinks and our members are doing in these areas, our current projects and sources of support.”

ConnectSport is a not-for-profit directory of organisations using sport and physical activity to generate positive social outcomes. Whether it's improving physical or mental wellbeing, engaging with disadvantaged or isolated individuals, challenging discrimination or reducing crime and creating community cohesion, we connect you to the local and national organisations using 'sport for change' across the UK. The ConnectSport platform is managed by experienced media executives and journalists whose mission is to increase awareness and investment in the Sport for Development sector.

ConnectSport is a not-for-profit directory of organisations using sport and physical activity to generate positive social outcomes. Whether it's improving physical or mental wellbeing, engaging with disadvantaged or isolated individuals, challenging discrimination or reducing crime and creating community cohesion, we connect you to the local and national organisations using 'sport for change' across the UK.

This is an excellent website, full of resources of the kind supported by fighting knife crime- London,  and a first port of call for those interested in the contribution sport can make to changing lives.

Coram’s Fields and Harmsworth Memorial Playground is a children’s charity that serves as a safe place for all children to come and play. As well as a seven-acre park and playground situated in Bloomsbury, London, we also have an after school and holiday programme and a sports programme for children up to 16 years, a youth centre for 13-19 year olds and an Early Years programme which includes a Nursery and Under 5s Drop In. The park is free to the public and gets up to a thousand children daily during the summer, especially from the diverse local community of South Camden. As a charity we are committed to being a safe and secure space for children to come and play.

Create Streets exists to make it easier to develop and steward gentle density, beautiful, prosperous places with strong local support and which residents will love for generations.

Create Streets exists to help solve the housing crisis and to help neighbourhood, communities, landowners, councils and developers create and manage beautiful, sustainable places of gentle density that will be popular, are likely to be correlated with good wellbeing and public health outcomes and which are likely to prove good long term investments based on the historical data of value appreciation and maintenance costs.

Our goal is to make it easier to co-create beautiful, sustainable, prosperous, economically and socially successful places with strong local support and which residents will love for generations. We also take an active part in the debate about the planning and design in the UK and beyond to help landowners, communities and governments support the creation of sufficient homes and places in which people can flourish.

The services offered are designed to steer at-risk youth away from gang-culture, knife crime and gun violence, and encourage them to see that there is a future.
The skills that the children learn at boxing encourage them to commit to something outside of their school from a young age. This learnt behaviour is imperative to their growth to ensure that they stay dedicated to studies, work and to avoid the temptations of gang culture.

The boxing coaches are mentors, teachers and friends of each of these children ensuring that they instil a work ethic in each individual before they can graduate from the boxing course.

Dwaynamics is a beacon of light for young people, families and the community.

"I believe in community, and the ability of art to bring people together, to educate, to enlighten or just open up avenues that allow everyone to let their hair down or up, and express without fear. This is why I give my time freely to engage in workshops that do exactly that, especially where it concerns the under privileged"
"I like to collaborate on a good project, one that requires improvisation, imagination and risk. I have partaken in a few exciting projects and I have consistently left each situation with an expanded mind and a smiling heart"

Epilepsy Society’s vision is a full life for everyone affected by epilepsy. Why not connect with us today?  Together we can make a real difference.  The Epilepsy Society is the largest medical charity in the field of epilepsy in the United Kingdom, providing services for people with epilepsy for over 100 years. Based in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, UK, its stated mission is "to enhance the quality of life of people affected by epilepsy by promoting research, education and public awareness and by delivering specialist medical care and support services." The Epilepsy Society has close partnerships with the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and the UCL Institute of Neurology, both located in Queen Square, London.

Fight 4 Change is a registered Sport for Development charity (registered charity 1143318), using sport to inspire and educate young people and adults to make a positive change in their lives. Our programmes use a range of sports including boxing, martial arts multi sports and fitness training to support, mentor and progress marginalised young people since 2009. Our theory of change incorporates our specific methodology and evaluation process to promote social change. This allows us to create an honest picture of the steps required to reach our long-term goals. We use sport and physical activity as the tool and catalyst for positive change, with impact on the young person occurring through every one of our 5 stages. Empowerment – inspire and motivate.  Physical activity/sport & Education – up skilling and tool kits.  Mentoring – guidance & Progression – job opportunities, higher educations, apprenticeships.

They have recently been awarded £30,000 for their Fight for Peace primary violence prevention program to deliver sports and personal development to young people from communities affected by crime and violence. This project aims to assist young people with a history of or at risk of involvement in gangs, violence and knife crime to become more integrated into their communities and mainstream society through regular participation in pro-social programs. “Fight for Peace uses boxing and martial arts combined with education and personal development to realise the potential of young people.

Fight for Peace supports young people in communities affected by crime and violence by creating new opportunities for them and supporting them to make the most of existing opportunities.

In addition to providing new opportunities, our Theory of Change is based on the assumption that a young person’s behaviour, situation and the choices they make, are dependent on the way they see themselves, how they relate to others, and how they see their future. Fight for Peace creates an enabling environment within which this personal growth and development can take place through our five pillars methodology and by living our values.”

Fulham Football Club Foundation is a leading community charity building better lives through sport. With more than 20 years of experience, we use the power of sport to provide meaningful education, employability, health, inclusion, environmental, and sport programmes.

At the heart of our work is a commitment to empowering the most vulnerable members of the communities in which we work, including Lambeth, Merton, Kingston, Hammersmith & Fulham and Surrey. The charitable arm of London’s oldest club, we are proud to work with an average of 12,000 unique participants per season.

Our partnerships play an important role in helping us achieve our aims and deliver programmes of the highest quality, with demonstrated returns for society.

We aim to prevent & divert young people from crime, antisocial behaviour, exclusion from education and ‘care’ through building positive relationships, education, diversion activities and community cohesion. They specialise in using sport as a tool to engage and create change. They teach Boxing, Jiu Jitsu, Yoga & Fitness. They also offer a mentoring programme.

GoodGym is a fast growing social startup which channels the energy wasted during exercise into social good. We connect runners, or those who want to get fit, with physical tasks which benefit their community. GoodGym is a not-for-profit social enterprise based in East London.

Greenhouse Sports is a registered charity that was founded in 2002 by Michael de Giorgio.

Our Vision: Every child has a fair chance to succeed.

Our Mission: To deliver intensive sports coaching and mentoring to help develop the Social, Thinking, Emotional and Physical (STEP) abilities of young people from disadvantaged communities.

As an Academy we strive to forge links with our local community. This includes, organisations, businesses, neighbours and schools. Our vision at Harris Academy Peckham is to ensure every child achieves excellence in all aspects of academy life.  We have high aspirations, both in terms of academic standards and personal development, in order to prepare your child for the demands of the 21st century global workplace. We expect every child to excel, and will provide the necessary challenge and support to make this happen.

In line with all Harris Academies, we ensure that we prepare engaging and innovative learning experiences for our students, within a disciplined context where good manners, smart uniform and  mature conduct are expected from all.

Heart n Soul is a leading arts organisation with learning disability culture at its heart.  Heart n Soul is an award-winning creative arts company and charity. We believe in the power and talents of people with learning disabilities, providing opportunities for people to discover, develop and share this power and talent as widely as possible. We also have a lot of fun!  Support our Taking Part programme and help us change the lives of people with learning disabilities now.

Hope UK is a drug education charity – helping equip young people to make drug-free choices.

For more than 160 years, (previously as The Band of Hope), we have equipped young people to make drug*-free choices, working with groups and individuals in formal and informal settings helping them develop the knowledge and skills they need to live healthy lives. Our trained volunteers and staff, who work with children and young people in schools and youth groups, provide interactive, age-appropriate educational sessions about drugs. Life skills that build confidence, enhance peer resistance and develop helpful, transferable skills are woven into sessions designed to encourage healthy choices and enable children and young people to realise their potential.

Immediate Theatre’s purpose is to use theatre and the arts to help people engage with issues and concerns and to imagine the process of change. The term “immediate” implying the “right here” on your doorstep and the “right now” of what is happening today. “We believe that the arts have an intrinsic role to play in society and that it should not be banished to institutions but be happening everywhere.

Our Objectives:

• To provide inspiring participatory theatre programs enabling people to reach their potential and prevent exclusion and social isolation.

• To create performances which explore social issues, engage people in the process of change and influence decision making.

• To improve health and wellbeing and increase life skills and employability through engagement in the arts.”

We offer Watersports  and a range of activities and courses for adults and young people. We are situated in the City Road Basin, entered via Graham Street, London N1 8JX.

An RYA approved training centre and staffed with Canoe England registered instructors, we offer many accredited courses for all ages over nine years.

We currently have an open access Youth Club on Saturdays (11am to 4pm) also on Tuesdays and Wednesdays (5pm to 7pm). Please check out our events calendar or Facebook page for updates and news of events.

We can also offer narrowboat hire and event space hire for birthdays, receptions, private parties, corporate events and much more.

They have recently been awarded £30,000 for their ‘Aim Higher’ – a project to steer at-risk youth away from gang culture, knife and gun crime, through workshops augmented by sports programs.

“The Jason Roberts Foundation (JRF) was established in 2007 by the former professional footballer, media personality and social activist Jason Roberts as a means to put something back into the community he came from, and to underpin his belief in equal opportunities, rights and representation for individuals regardless of background or circumstance.”

Initially focusing on the Stonebridge Estate in the London Borough of Brent, where Jason grew up, and in Grenada, where his family originate from and for whom he played as an international footballer, the Foundation originally focused on football based social inclusion projects – projects that offered participation and playing opportunities to young people who otherwise had little chance of accessing coaching or opportunities to progress as players. In 2014 the Foundation underwent a significant review of its activities, restructured its organisational management and has since implemented a comprehensive national programme in the UK, offering grass roots projects across London and the South West of England for young people living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. JRF has also developed accredited training packages in Equality and Diversity Awareness as well as sporting qualifications that are delivered across the country…”.

Our programmes support people struggling with depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar, psychosis, & other mental health & neurodiverse conditions.

Using a unique music industry informed evidence-based therapeutic approach, our work is delivered by specially trained professional producers, artists, managers, industry experts, & creatives.

Our services are accessible for musicians and music lovers with all levels of ability and experience.

The process of creative collaboration, feelgood factor from finished mixes of your musical ideas, encouragement and feedback from mentors, peers and wider audiences, will lift your spirits and improve your wellbeing.

Driven forward by our love of sport, we're here to fight discrimination. We're here to make sure football is a game for everyone – and that means putting equality and inclusion up front.

We've made huge progress on and off the pitch, leading the charge for positive change. We've done it by raising awareness, confronting issues and helping our sport be better.  We run education programmes for academy players, parents and fans. We campaign to make sure football is always welcoming – to everyone.

We support people from under-represented and minority communities to make a career in football and thrive.

Our biggest hope is that one day football no longer needs us. But right now we're here to put an end to every form of discrimination. We won't stop until it stops.

LDN UTD is the first UK esports organisation to unite with social responsibility. We’re the organisation for esports. We develop incredible players from all backgrounds and offer them a platform to play at their best. Meanwhile we use our profile and position in the esports community to raise awareness and funds around the most important issues in the world today. To date, we have addressed knife crime in London, isolation as a result of lockdown and racism, participation in sport, nutrition and diversity. This is just the beginning. Join us on the journey.

LET'S TALK, set up by Peckham-based Community TV Trust, is a four year project spanning 2019-2022, with forums and film screenings in schools and youth clubs. In 2021 LET'S TALK has been focusing on the positive story of attempts by young members of the Black community to build better relations with the Police. Four teenagers lead the way. The three latest videos document this unexpected initiative.

See also our LET'S TALK Video Report 2020 for a full breakdown of how last year's Forums panned out.

In early 2019 and 2020, LET'S TALK ran Forums providing young people with professionals to talk to. Film Screenings in the Autumn of 2019 showed young people what their peers were saying and doing,  such as The Movement Factory and their production "One Road, Two Paths". A powerful musical about knife crime created by pupils at Harris Academy Peckham has now been performed at Bold Tendencies with the Multi-Story Orchestra.

LET'S TALK confronts social dysfunction by listening. From a Panel of professionals listening to young people comes positivity, as LET'S TALK Panel members pass on their findings to our elected representatives and policymakers and take back fresh thinking into their own work.

The next phase concentrates on Family, which some say is in crisis – affected by poverty, unemployment, not to mention youth violence and knife crime and the Covid-19 pandemic which has intensified isolation and mental health issues. So LET'S TALK!

London Sports Trust aims to inspire positive change for disadvantaged young Londoners through the power of sport, training & life-skills to improve life outcomes as well as physical and mental health. We believe in young people's capacity to aspire and achieve to maximise their potential despite the barriers they face. Our main aims are to:

• Inspire change in young Londoners & parents by educating and cultivating positive change through the power of sport.

• Help disadvantaged children and their families to achieve their goals in life, sport and education.

• Improve life outcomes and employment opportunities through our programmes.

It is a sad fact that some sections of society are more disadvantaged than others. This is why we target our work in what are statistically some of the most deprived areas of the country, working closely with those traditionally seen as hard-to-reach e.g. Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities, refugees, asylum seekers, young people not in employment, education or training (NEET), offenders and others. Women and young people are often not given the priority they need, particularly within certain communities, so as an organisation we dedicate our resources to work with them.

For many of these individuals and communities, there are usually multiple problems affecting their access to opportunities such as lack of adequate educational attainment or poor health. Thus, we focus our project development and delivery across the following themes:

• Keep Communities Safe

• Improve Health & Wellbeing

• Provide Sporting Pathways

• Youth Services

• Develop People’s Skills

• International Development

The London Youth Games is an annual multi-sport event held in London, England. The London Youth Games offer competitive opportunities for young participants aged 7 to 18 across 30 sports. The London Youth Games are contested between the 32 London boroughs and take place at venues around the capital all year round, with the focal point being a finals weekend at the National Sports Centre in Crystal Palace. The finals weekend traditionally takes place on the first weekend in July and they are free and open to all young people living in or going to school in London. Over 125,000 young Londoners take part in the London Youth Games, making it the largest annual youth sports event in Europe.

Love Streatham exists for the benefit of the Streatham community. We are a group of people from a range of local churches who want to share God’s love for the people of Streatham. We care about our community and want to bring about positive change. We have a range of initiatives going and we hope to expand these. You may have already met our team of Street Pastors who go out late at night each month to look out for those in need. We have also helped out residents in the community in practical ways such as gardening and painting. We have held some community events including an open-air carol service and an election hustings.

Mencap is the voice of learning disability.

WE'RE A NEW CLUB IN NORTH LONDON, DEDICATED TO GIVING YOUNG PEOPLE THEIR OWN BOXING SPACE.

Whether you join us to compete at a top level, gain confidence, meet friendly faces or get yourself in the shape of your life – we've got your covered.

The Metrobox team prides itself on proving a safe and welcoming learning environment, with coaches that are dedicated to bringing the best out of you. We cater for all abilities and ages, regardless of whether it's your first time putting on gloves or you've got years in the sport. Metrobox is a gym for the community, run by people in the community. Welcome!

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•A friendly team of experienced coaches, with the relevant qualifications to facilitate your development as a boxer.
•A well equipped gym, which is a clean and safe training environment.
•The opportunity to test yourself, expand your ability and push yourself to new levels.
•The development of boxers, with routes into local and regional competitions.
•Access to support and opportunities through our network of local partners.

The well established and recognised national organisation. “We provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. We campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.”

Mind https://www.mind.org.uk - The well established and recognised national organisation.  “We provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. We campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.”

City Hall has partnered with Laureus Sport for Good and Nike to deliver an innovative initiative called ‘Model City’. Model City is a key project of the Mayor’s Sport Unites programme.

Model City empowers communities to create change in their local area through harnessing the power of sport. The initiative is underway as a place-based pilot in three London Boroughs: Haringey, Barking and Hounslow.

Each Model City comprises of community members who form a ‘coalition’. The coalition works together to identify local challenges and selects sports initiatives to fund in order to address them.

Real change starts local

Model City is a powerful example of the ‘bottom up’ approach that Sport Unites champions – actively encouraging local communities to influence the decisions that impact them. Funding is ultimately directed towards the issues that coalitions recognise as being important to their area and its residents.

Empowering locals to lead the decision-making process builds trust – creating a framework for partnerships to develop and communities to thrive. A combination of data, desk-based research and local consultation were used to determine the Model City locations in London.

Collaborative partnerships and shared objectives

Model City is a partnership between City Hall, Laureus Sport for Good and Nike. Laureus Sport for Good is a global charity that uses the power of sport to end violence, discrimination and disadvantage for young people. Model City has been used to create positive change through sport in New Orleans and Atlanta.

We are the leading UK charity for people with autism (including Asperger syndrome) and their families.

We want to promote a culture of educational excellence for the muslim athletes, from within a caring and secure Islamic environment enriched with the values of discipline, mutual care and respect which extends beyond and in to the wider community. By building, empowering and supporting a community of muslim athletes, Nujum will empower our future generations to be positive and inspirational members of society.

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PTSD UK is the only charity in the UK dedicated to raising awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder – no matter the trauma that caused it. If you recognise some of the symptoms of PTSD or C-PTSD in yourself, it's really important to speak to someone if you feel you can. This might be a friend or loved one initially, but seeing a medical professional will also allow you to get a full diagnosis, understand your condition better, and most importantly, find out what treatment options are available for you.

100% of the profits from everything in our online Supporters Store goes directly to our mission – to help everyone affected by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the UK, no matter the trauma that caused it.

Project Future is a community based holistic and youth-led, mental health and wellbeing service situated in Haringey. It seeks to transform the delivery of mental health for young men aged 11-25 years old who are involved in offending, have experiences of the criminal justice system, and specifically for those exposed to serious youth violence or labelled ‘gang-affiliated’.

Funded by the Big Lottery, the project is a partnership between Mind in Haringey, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Mental Health Trust, and Haringey Council and has been co-produced by the young people themselves: young men who are entrenched in cycles of poverty and offending, and who are not able to access regular services.

It is primarily a wellbeing service in which evidence-based psychological interventions are delivered to young people in accessible ways. The project is accessed by peer referral only, helping create an environment where young people feel comfortable and safe. At Project Future young people are appointed as experts in their own lives and in the community. They are consulted at every level of the project and are responsible for co-producing a service that best meets the needs of themselves and their peers.

The project is facilitated by a team of clinical psychologists, specialist youth workers and local young people, ‘community consultants’. Together they provide a supportive and nurturing environment for young people to thrive in by addressing their mental health, wellbeing and occupational needs. The service provides bespoke interventions that are tailored to the individual needs of young people, to ultimately improve wellbeing, facilitate rehabilitation and reduce the risk of future offending.

Our Mission

To work in partnership with communities, to develop an inclusive range of sporting, educational, cultural and social opportunities, improving the quality of life for individuals and neighbourhoods.

Our Values

- Working collaboratively, both internally and with external stakeholders for the benefit of our current and potential beneficiaries

- Reviewing and reflecting on our delivery to ensure that we meet and maintain the highest standards of quality for our work

- Working with passion and celebrating the difference we are able to make to individuals and in communities

- Embracing change and taking up opportunities for our own personal and professional development

- Remaining locally-led and grounded in the community

Skate Cabal is a platform with a mission to empower the Skate community, as well as amplifying their voices & showcase safe spaces to skate.

We want to help those looking for a sense of community through our digital platforms and we want to ensure you are Roller skating in a safe environments by showcasing these community recommended locations through our Mobile Web App.

• We want to be an outlet for creativity, inspiration and mental well-being through community driven initiatives with a shared interest in Skating.

• To create space for Roller skating to take place in a safe environment.

• Become the leading Digital Skating Community platform in the UK.

• To be the place for your dose of news on All things Skate.

The Mayor’s community sport investment programme, Sport Unites, supports his long-term vision to make London the most active and socially integrated city in the world. Through Sport Unites investment, the Mayor has supported initiatives addressing the following outcomes:

• Decreasing inactivity levels

• Improving mental health

• Decreasing social isolation and increasing social mixing

• Reducing serious youth violence

• Building capacity of people and organisations

• Building capacity of infrastructure and systems

Findings from the period March 2018 to March 2020 are outlined in two status reports:

Download Status Report 1, Published December 2019

Download Status Report 2, Published March 2020

The Sport Unites programme is comprised of key projects that contribute to the Mayor’s long-term vision to make London the most active and socially-integrated city in the world. Find out more about the key projects of Sport Unites and the role they play in improving social integration and getting Londoners active.

The Academy of Hard Knocks is a new initiative designed to challenge destructive and antisocial behaviour patterns, and with the use of a carefully structured programme that incorporates esteem building, teamwork, positive role models and respect, aims to reduce reoffending rates. We use  martial arts,  and boxing with a 12 week program. Contact 07949327491 for further information or visit our website here.‍

The Academy is designed to provide a safe and protective environment for young people. All instructors are highly qualified, holding all necessary in date registrations and licences. All necessary protective policies and procedures have been undertaken and all instructors have extensive experience within their relevant fields and have a genuine desire to help change lives.

The Academy of Hard Knocks is a community based interest project. We operate purely on donations, government grants, good will and promotion/sponsorship agreements.

Our programme incorporates gym sessions, mixed martial arts, nutrition classes, drug and alcohol work,  and guest talks.

Participants are expected to commit to a twelve week course, attending twice weekly for two hours per day. The training programme is progressive in the methods and equipment used and aims to be physically challenging for all ability levels whilst also being varied enough to maintain interest.

The Access to Sports Project is a community led, innovative sports development project that has historically worked across the London boroughs of Islington, Hackney & Haringey. The project originally started off working in the Finsbury Park regeneration area in 2002 with 1 full time staff member, through a successful track record of project delivery and fundraising the Project now employs 9 full time and over 30 sessional members of staff. Access to Sports is an 'on the ground' organisation delivering responsive and relevant sports programmes in tune with local and national agendas.

Working with partners from the voluntary, community and statutory sectors A2S delivers targeted programmes directly addressing some of the social and economical issues that effect London's 'hard to reach' communities. Developing partnerships strengthens the effectiveness of the projects delivered and creates sustainability in what we do.

The Comedy School is the only arts organisation of its kind in the UK which works with comedy in many different settings.

The Comedy School aims to raise the profile of the many uses of comedy, from stimulating personal creativity to encouraging social skills and improving literacy. We achieve this through our innovative workshop, performance and arts projects. These are varied and inclusive, catering for those who wish to be comedians, to work in the arts and the entertainment industries, or to improve their communication skills and confidence.

The Comedy School is committed to enhancing the lives of local communities and developing responsive projects, using the arts as media for making learning interactive and fun. Our unique way of working has enabled the company to take arts practitioners to many varied environments, including schools, prisons, traveller sites and excluded communities across the UK.

Our vision is of healthy, caring and thriving communities.

Our mission is to use the resources and heritage of Wimbledon to help change people’s lives.

Our approach is to deliver programmes and work with partners that truly reflect Wimbledon’s values.

The aim of the Wimbledon Foundation is to help change people’s lives using the resources and heritage of Wimbledon. Our goals are to:

- Strengthen our local community by helping people in the boroughs of Merton and Wandsworth

- Support healthy and active lives by enabling good mental and physical health for people of all ages

- Develop young people by creating opportunities to learn skills for life

Help those in need by supporting charities through The Championships and the All England Club.

We are a family ran boxing club providing quality boxing sessions for Wandsworth Borough and surrounding areas. Most people aim to compete but recreational boxers are welcome. We train people on their boxing skills through intense boxing drills and give boxers a strong mindset to achieve and we are determined to be successful in the 2021/2022 boxing season.

We offer weekly classes to young people aged 9 - 15 and adults aged 16-39 that include regular sparing, boxing drills and skills and fitness.  We also provide women-only and family workout classes,  1-2-1 and personal training sessions for adults and children on Saturdays as well as dedicated sparring classes.

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We are delivering emotional well-being, substance misuse, and stop smoking services for 11-25 year olds in Wandsworth.

The Wandsworth Young People's Health Agency is designed to promote, maintain, and improve the health and well-being of young people in Wandsworth using a community specialist approach. This is achieved by offering advice and structured interventions on substance misuse, smoking, alcohol, and emotional health.

After an initial assessment an individual's care plan is created. This is followed by six sessions of counselling which addresses any issues the young person may have.

Wandsworth Young People's Health Service is a commissioned service working across the London Borough of Wandsworth. Sessions are targeted towards those who do not meet Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) criteria.

This Hackney based website provides links to all that’s going on in the area – there are links to Arts & Media organisations, Leisure Centres, Libraries, Play, Schools, Sports, Uniformed groups, Youth clubs, and Youth Support.

“Youth Music’s vision is that one day, all children and young people will be able to have musical lives.

We're a national charity investing in music-making projects which support children and young people aged 0-25 to develop personally and socially as well as musically. We work particularly with those who don’t get to make music because of who they are, where they live, or what they’re going through.”

“Youth Music has appointed four new ambassadors. Presenter and multi-instrumentalist Myleene Klass, electronic music duo Bicep, folk musician and band leader Kathryn Tickell and musician and film composer Ollie Howell. Since its foundation in 1999, three million children and young people – from early years through to early adulthood – have made music across England in projects funded by Youth Music, with support and funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.”

One in seven children are obese by the time they start school, increasing to one in four by year six (NHS, 2021). The Youth Sport Trust (YST) is the UK's leading charity improving every young person's education and development through sport and play. The YST equips educators and empowers young people with the vision of creating a future where every child enjoys the life-changing benefits of play and sport. The YST works across the UK and internationally, equipping and empowering the next generation. Sport gives young people a platform to have their voice heard and a place to feel they belong. We are a leading source of PE and youth sport news, insight, and opinion. We harness this extraordinary power to change young lives today and help them build a brighter tomorrow. We do this by (1) running inclusive and innovative programmes, (2) bringing together communities of educators, and (3) providing practical tools and resources. We have identified six key groups of changemakers and how they are best placed to help build belonging: Educators, Young people, Organisations, Influencers in public life, Families, and Ourselves.