Projects
Copenhagen Youth Project (CYP)
The aims of the project are to provide easily accessible sport, art and skills based activities to meet the recreational, social and development needs of young people who are vulnerable, excluded or are at risk of offending in the Copenhagen area of Islington, in order to help them develop skills, access learning and start realising their potential. CYP offers a wide range of activities for young people in the area, but a key part of the offering is the football: it is a magnet activity for low achieving young people in an area of high deprivation, and it draws them into other creative and informal education activities run by CYP throughout the year.
CYP involves over 20 other local organisations through its local Forum and is the lead organisation of the Copenhagen Play and Youth Partnership, which, as stated by the London Corporation’s City Bridge Trust, ‘provides a very good model of a working partnership supporting a strategic approach to service delivery’.
Eastside Young Leaders Academy
The purpose of the project is to nurture, develop and maximise the leadership potential of disaffected young men from the African-Caribbean community, empowering them to become positive, active citizens and a new generation of successful black leaders.
The project has a busy programme that offers Saturday school, after school tutorials, holiday programmes, mentoring, a citizenship programme and family support. The latter includes topics such as money management and healthy living, and it also aims to help families live with their children using mutually agreed rules.
Children participating in the project are referred by Social Services, schools and sometimes parents. All children are perceived as having potential and the programme has demanding targets of each participant achieving two ‘A’ levels or more and 75% being offered a university place.
Westside Independant School
The School, based in the London borough of Westminster, is for mainstream students who require further individual attention and educational support to complete their GCSE programme of study. The focus of the Westside School is both academic and personal achievement whilst also recognising the need to apply these skills to the field of employment by way of work experience placements and further education. Essentially the School provides a “last chance saloon” for 14-16 year old children at risk of exclusion from mainstream education.
The Company is supporting Westside School in becoming
self-funding.
