Community Seed Funding (Knife Crime)
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced that London’s Violence Reduction Unit will be investing £1.4 million in local community groups that specialise in early intervention to tackle knife crime.
The Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), which was set up by the Mayor, will provide funding for about 40 community projects that deliver interventions and provide support and diversionary activities for nearly 25,000 young Londoners in high-crime areas.
The projects, which will be the first to be funded by the VRU, will provide mentoring, counselling, school-based education schemes and community diversionary activities over the course of the next year for young people aged 10-21.
The projects will be funded by the VRU, whose public health approach is focused on building the capacity of local organisations that work with young people to prevent and reduce violent crime within their communities. The VRU will carry out project reviews over the next 12 months to understand what works best and to make further decisions on where similar projects would be effective in making early interventions.
The new investment comes as London’s VRU secured £7m funding from the Home Office for a series of programmes and initiatives to tackle all forms of violence in the capital.
Year 2 grants awarded
In August 2019 the VRU invested £1.4 million into the Community Seed Fund supporting 40 local groups who are working within communities that have been affected by knife violence in London. These groups specialise in delivering early interventions and providing support and diversionary activities for nearly 25,000 young Londoners in high-crime areas.
The 4Front Project Ltd - to deliver a youth led intervention project for 100 young people involved in and affected by serious youth violence on Grahame Park Estate in Colindale, Barnet.
BLBC - to deliver daily term-time community volunteer school patrols in Harlesden and organise mother’s groups on estates in Brent to address the issues of knife crime, reaching a total of 100 people.
SAAFI (Somali Advice and Forum of Information) - to provide 1:1 mentoring and support to 30 young men aged 11-17 and deliver knife crime awareness raising activities reaching 150 people in the Somali community in Harlesden, Brent.
The 4Front Project Ltd - to deliver a youth led intervention project for 100 young people involved in and affected by serious youth violence on Grahame Park Estate in Colindale, Barnet.
GOAL (Gospel Oak Action Link) - to deliver two 10-week programmes of workshops for 50 at-risk young people in Camden, followed by a residential programme with follow-up support in order to divert them away from gangs and into education and/or employment.
Urban Community Projects - to deliver a project with at-risk young people in Somers Town Ward to create a knife and gang crime awareness event for the whole community, reaching 180 people.
Cassandra Learning Centre - towards school outreach, 1:1 mentoring and therapeutic support, including group and family sessions reaching 122 young people involved in SYV aged 14-18 in Croydon, Lewisham and Lambeth.
Croydon BME Forum - to deliver capacity building training and support to four grassroots organisations who provide activities for people affected by knife crime in Croydon, reaching at least 60 people.
Rising Stars Support - to conduct street outreach and deliver 48, 1.5 hour sessions of mixed martial arts and supported progression routes for 90 young people from Croydon.
Communities Against Violence - to support BME victims and perpetrators of knife crime in Haringey via a phone line and outreach service and a family style mentoring programme for 4 high-risk young people.
Damilola Taylor Trust - to deliver an intense mentoring and career and skills development programme to 45 young people, mainly from BAME backgrounds in Southwark over 30 weeks.
Academy Achievers - to deliver anti-knife crime early intervention and outreach through STEM-related activities, with 65 young people aged 11 to 18 in Stratford and West Ham.
StreetDoctors - to deliver a partnership project to educate up to 120 young people with knowledge of dangers and risks of knife crime, first aid training and lifesaving skills in Croydon and Hackney.
The Show Crib - to train young people and parents to deliver workshops in educational, youth and community settings to 2,000 beneficiaries across Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Islington.
Key4Life CIO - to deliver a one-year partnership project preventing youth offending and youth violence by empowering 80 ex-offenders/those at risk of offending to secure employment and train as mentors in Brixton, Hammersmith and Fulham and other West London locations.
The VIP - Violence Intervention Project - to deliver a 12-month targeted mentoring programme in Hammersmith and Fulham for 20-25 high status or high-risk young people aged 15 to 25 years old in the community and in custody.
Godwin Lawson Foundation - to deliver ipreventative knife crime presentations in Haringey and Enfield schools reaching 520 pupils and support 20 high-risk young people intensively through an early inervention programme.
Real Impact Social Empowerment Projects - RISE Projects - to deliver a community safety project aimed at Haringey’s young Somali community, including mentoring, workshops, awareness raising and a early intervention outreach to 200 people, in order to reduce the number of knife crime incidents in Turnpike Lane, Bruce Grove and Wood Green.
Prospex - to provide detached street outreach and Centre based youth hub activities for 50 young people in Islington over 12 months.
Making Communities Work & Grow - to deliver a series of outreach for 24 weeks followed by group workshops, one-to-one sessions, and general youth centre provision for 40 young BAME men aged 14-21 in Kensington and Chelsea.
Dwaynamics - to provide boxing, mentoring and skills development activities to 300 young people in Lambeth and run a series of knife crime workshops.
Fight for Change Foundation - to deliver weekly boxing sessions and knife crime awareness and employability workshops for 30 at risk young people from Lambeth and Southwark over six months.
ML Community Enterprise - to provide psycho-emotional interventions and positive activities for 20 young people and their families, plus prevention and safeguarding outreach and community interventions over 12 months in the Coldharbour ward, Lambeth.
Raw Material Music And Media Education - to run a creative arts & music and career support project aimed at supporting 50 young people at risk of youth violence in Lambeth over 36 weeks.
South London Counselling & Support Services - to provide one to one counselling, group workshops mentor training and weekly sporting, recreational and cultural activities for up to 100 young victims of crime in Lewisham and Greenwich.
Unique Talent - to deliver 15 Knife Crime workshops, 15 training sessions for professionals, peer mediation/ mentoring for 40 young people and a residential for 10 young people over the course of one year.
Ambition, Aspire, Achieve - to deliver a strategic, early intervention community-based project in Newham including transition and resilience workshops reaching 2000 young people, and to facilitate routes out of gangs for 12 young people and prevent 20 young people from becoming involved in a gang.
Basic Sports & Fitness - to deliver a 12-month programme of non-contact boxing and knife crime awareness workshops to 60 at-risk young people in Newham as a diversionary activity away from gangs and violent crime.
Good Shepherd Voluntary Organisation - to provide peer mentoring to 40 at-risk young people, 20 parenting workshops and 12 employability and business start-up workshops for young people, in Newham.
Chaos Theory - to deliver conflict mediation and mentoring in Waltham Forest reaching 45 predominantly young black and Asian men aged between 18 to 25 years.
Southside Young Leaders’ Academy - to support 42 BAME boys aged 8-16 who are at risk of becoming involved in knife crime and gang activity via workshops, counselling and working with parents and local services in Lambeth and Southwark.
Ocean Youth Connexions - to deliver two six-month outreach projects and associated workshops to 60 BAME young men engaged in or at risk of engagement in knife related crime in Tower Hamlets SYV hot-spots.
Streets of Growth - to expand the Bridging Programme across 8 estates in Tower Hamlets, supporting 124 high risk young people through coaching support, life skills workshops and anti-social behaviour awareness workshops.
WISE Youth Trust - to deliver group sessions, workshops and diversionary activities to 150 young people in Hackney and Tower Hamlets.
The Greenleaf Trust Ltd - to deliver ongoing intervention and prevention initiatives in Waltham Forest through outreach work and 1-2-1 mentoring, reaching 200 young people as well as working with 30 young people in exclusion units.
The St Matthew's project - to deliver a football and mental health focussed project for 60 children (5-12) in Lambeth over 45 weeks.
The Flavasum Trust - To deliver awareness raising workshops to 4,000 pupils in 20 London schools in priority boroughs and to train ten young people to also deliver the workshops.
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