Centre for Research and Education/ Youth Exclusion: YouEX (Tottenham) – Providing ESOL Basic skills, iCT training, role-model schemes and confidence building activities for young people.
Somali Community Education and Employment Support (SCEES) (Woolwich) – To hold group discussions and cultural events in partnership with Met Police to bring together young people at risk of becoming involved in gun crime.
African Support and Project Centre (Hackney) – Football training sessions for young people aimed at preventing them from becoming involved in gun crime.
Restoring Lives (Camberwell) – To support victims and witnesses of knife/gun crime throughout the trial process and afterwards.
The Blenheim Project (Ladbroke Grove) – A number of workshop discussions at schools and youth clubs run by a four man theatre group which will also act out a play on knife/gun crime.
Brick Lane Youth Development Association (Tower Hamlets) – A one month project to raise young peoples awareness of gang conflict and gun crime problems in the area using outreach methods.
The Fix Up Programme (Kensington and Chelsea) – A six week drama series on LIFE FM addressing gun/knife crime issues.
Harvesting Mans Potential (HMP) (Lambeth) – Twelve self development sessions for ex-offenders to prevent re-offending.
Keep the Dream Alive (Lambeth) – Seeking to redefine ‘street respect’ by exploring with young people conflict resolution and alternatives to crime.
Street Vibes Youth (Greenwich) – Music diversionary activities, training workshops and group mentoring for young people ‘at risk’.
London Black Women Enterprise Forum Project (Lewisham) – Targeting twenty young people who have completed custodial sentences. To re-address attitudes, confidence and motivation through enterprise awareness.
Bethnal Green Mission Church (Tower Hamlets) – The project involves personal mentoring, a development training programme and diversionary activities for disadvantaged young people.
Clapham Park Time Bank (Lambeth) – Creation of a football team and the setting up of a gardening programme to promote mental health and stability for single parent families.
The African Child (Brent) – Working closely with the youth offending team in Brent to raise awareness of dangers of using substances which commonly lead to crime.
Prisoners Liaison information Advisory Services (Brent) – A series of six interactive workshops on different aspects of crime targeting at risk young people.
The Community Trust (Lambeth) – To help young people organise and run a youth club themselves one evening a week.
boys2MEN (Camden) – Training eight young people to become mentors, particularly working with young fathers and youth offenders.
The Securelink Organisation (TSO) (Enfield) – Youth crime prevention initiative involving two separate eight week programmes.
Kurdish and Turkish Residents of Enfield – To fund five monthly community group meetings to discuss and raise issues of knife crime amongst Kurdish and Turkish young people.
Sound Vision Trust (Hackney) – A capacity building project to increase the broadcasting of radio shows in non-English.
Eastside Young Leaders’ Academy (EYLA) (Lambeth) – A mentoring scheme linking positive male role models to young black males mostly between 11-15 yrs of age.
Lambeth Mediation Service – To recruit and train up to 20 young people from the community to become volunteer mediators in gun and knife crime.
Straight Aims Community Project (Lambeth) – To produce anti-gun crime videos to accompany music tracks which the group have been given from high profile garage artists.
Lewisham Francophone Asylum Refugee Centre (LFARC) – To engage youths from BME backgrounds to identify contemporary attitudes and experiences of inter-ethnic hatred. Conclusions to be presented to local government groups.
Reconstruct Community Initiatives (Lewisham) – To set up an arts and personal development programme in Lewisham for young people at risk.
Newham Community Connection (Newham) – To train peer mentors to educate the local area about anti-gun crime issues.
The Avenues Youth Project (Westminster) – A series of internet radio debates held once a week in a youth club’s radio room.
Youth Focus Initiative
Aik Saath (Slough) – Teaching young people to become peer trainers and for them to work with other young people developing conflict resolution skills.
Docklands Outreach (Tower Hamlets) – Providing a range of services such as employment advice and training to young people.
St Basil gangs & gun crime diversionary project (Birmingham) – Diversionary activities including art and life skills for gang members at times when gang activity is most frequent. The project is run in partnership with a local college.
Jericho Community Project (Birmingham) – To create a new support network for young disaffected black males which will provide mentoring advice.
The Action Resources Development and Information Centre (ARDIC) (Birmingham) – To take young people who are at risk of belonging to a gang out of their urban gang culture and give them the chance to take part in rural activities.
Community Welfare Trust (Birmingham) - A mentoring scheme giving young people the chance to develop entrepreneurial skills away from criminal activity.
Young Disciples (Birmingham) – Development programme for 50 at risk young people to divert them away from criminal activity, focusing on the arts, music, sports and health.
South Aston Community Association (Birmingham) – Offers family learning and support activities such as IT and media training to young people who are victims of gang culture.
Families for Peace (Birmingham) – To provide bereavement and trauma counselling for both victims of gun crime and residents who live in fear of gang activity.
Bringing Hope (Birmingham) – A capacity building project to continue to equip local church leaders and youth workers to responded to gun crime issues.
Birmingham Community Venue (Birmingham) – To reconnect disengaged young people with educational opportunities with an OCN accredited course.
Values Education for Life (Birmingham) – To recruit and train ten new volunteer mentors to work with young people in the local area.
Shevington Youth Club (Bolton) – Offering music mixing sessions to fifteen vulnerable young people who are not in education/employment.
Support After Murder & Manslaughter (SAMM) (Liverpool) – To give presentations with Police officers to local schools, youth groups etc on gun and knife crime reduction initiatives.
Rochdale Connections Trust (Manchester) – To provide mentoring for young people who may be involved in or at risk of becoming involved in gun and knife crime.
Broad African Representative Council (Manchester) – A project for 13-19 year-olds. Six workshops will be run on gun and knife crime as well as after school clubs being arranged for sport and art activities.
Mothers Against Violence (Manchester) – A twelve week parental programme offering effective ways of parental engagement and support to disadvantaged young people.
The Discuss Project (Manchester) – A capacity building project for two of the groups session staff to work with groups of ten young people in six week blocks of activities.
Explosion Music Training (Manchester) – A four week mentoring programme for young men known to be involved in gangs.
Young Potential (Nottingham) – Workshops on thoughts, feelings and fears about local culture of gang and gun crime. These views will be presented to the community through drama, dance and poetry.
Credits 4 You (Nottingham) – Creative workshops for young people with the results being displayed at a ‘healing event’ for all those affected by gun crime.
Family Care (Nottingham) – To provide counselling for up to six young people who have been affected by gun/knife crime.
Bradford Police Club for Young People (Bradford) – A twelve week educational programme taking a holistic approach to the needs of young people.
CHIRAAH (Halifax) – Diversionary activities for Islamic males between 13-21 years old who are vulnerable to gun crime.
Community Action and Support against Crime (CASAC) (Leeds) – A project providing young people with the correct information and facts about weapons so that they make an informed choice about being associated with guns.
Armley Juniors Project For young People (Leeds) – To educate young people and the community as a whole about the dangers of carrying weapons.
People United Against Crime (Sheffield) – A three part project that involves; researching young people’s attitudes and experiences of gun crime; creating scenarios which solve problems at the local youth club; and presenting these findings to South Yorkshire Police.
Project 97 (Bristol) – Capacity building project to provide funding for outreach workers who are engaged with three rival gangs in the Kingswood area.
The City of Bristol Prayer Patrol (Bristol) – A detached mentoring project engaging young people involved in gun/gang crime as well as providing support to victims and witnesses.
Young Bristol (Bristol) - Alternative daytime short courses for young people between 13-19 years-old who are not attending school or are unemployed.
Leys Community Development Initiative (Oxford) – Work on the Blackbird Ley Estate using mentoring and musical activities leading up to a positive lyrics performance accreditation award after six months.
Be Safe Project (Essex) – Workshops for ‘at risk’ young people on the consequences of carrying weapons.
African Caribbean (Luton) – To establish an African/Caribbean young people support network plus running skill events for young people on career opportunities.