Empowering Communities Since 1995

Since 1995, we have been running a free Homework Club for children under 18, that has significantly increased their confidence to engage with education. We receive reports from parents and from schools about improved achievement of young people who attend our homework club, and there is confidence that our intervention makes a significant positive difference. We run group sessions 3 times a week, bringing together 15-20 young people per session. In addition, we support 20 young people per week with booster support in addition to the normal supplementary schoolwork. The Homework Club continues throughout the year, giving young people consistent ongoing support until their targets are achieved. 

We offer a holiday club in partnership with Camden Youth Services and Camden Young Foundation, to provide fun activities and healthy food during school holidays. This reaches 50 young people for 2 days per week, over 2 weeks. Activities include visits to museums and zoos, sport or competitive educational events, and classes on nutrition and healthy cooking/ eating. 

This project provides football coaching for BAME women and girls (aged 14-25) and builds leadership, confidence, assertiveness, and independence. There are 15 regular participants who attend weekly sessions. Apart from football coaching, they can also get support to achieve professional coaching qualifications. This activity is helping diversify the sport in response to the success of England’s Lionesses.

This is one of our core and longest-standing projects, in which we offer support for families through surgeries and casework. We offer in-depth advice on welfare rights and housing, helping users to submit housing applications, appeal against evictions, complete universal credit applications, etc. We also signpost them to legal and health experts where we cannot directly help. As access to welfare is increasingly done through digital platforms, we skill up and assist service users to navigate the digital world. Where needed, we also help to overcome the language barrier, for instance by accompanying users to meetings with housing providers, translating letters from authorities, etc.

This project aims to empower young people through sports, steering them away from risky and/ or criminal activities and towards meaningful employment and apprenticeships. We receive referrals of young people from the Metropolitan Police, Camden Safety Net and the Violence Reduction Unit, and we in turn refer young people to these agencies where we believe their interventions would be helpful. Further, we support parents to spot early signs of risky behaviour, grooming, and drug and knife crime, giving them the confidence and skills to support their children effectively towards better life choices

This project offers 1:1 support for victims of VAWG, working with 5-10 women and girls per week. We also offer monthly workshops for groups of women, reaching 30-40 women per month. In Camden, we lead the campaign to end Female Genital Mutilation, collaborating with the community to raise awareness, for instance through community events and school programs. We advocate to strengthen government policies to eliminate FGM, and we train enforcement agencies on intelligence-led and culturally sensitive ways to implement anti-FGM policies effectively.