Positive Future for Young People Fund (LGBTQ+)
Current funding
We've recently awarded the organisations listed below for two years from April 2024 to March 2026.
For more information regarding the youth offer in Southwark, visit the One Hub website.
Westminster House Youth Club
Westminster House Youth Club wants to continue to employ a local young worker who has qualified as a full-time worker via Southwark youth service funding, to work across all their projects. Targeting young people who are particularly marginalised and supporting their journey to access the opportunities the Club can offer them. They believe that their programme can bring people together and build strong relationships in and across communities.
Coin Street
Coin Street plans to continue to run Get Fit for Life for a further 24 months, delivering a minimum of 9.5 hours of face-to-face activities per week, 46 weeks of the year, including school holidays. The activities include the following:
- Friday youth gym
- Saturday football club and youth gym
- Sunday football club and youth gym
They will arrange three trips annually, where young people can experience a professional sports match, a cultural experience, or play in a tournament.
The Salmon Centre
The Salmon Centre plans to offer open-access drop-in youth work sessions three sessions a week. It will be open to young people aged 11-16 years old for 50p per session. Activities on offer every week will include:
- social space and games where young people can just relax with friends.
- sports (football, multi-sports such as badminton, volleyball, trampolining and basketball)
- indoor and outdoor adventure activities such as giant swing, climbing the cargo net and outside climbing wall.
- circuits or opportunity to work on a personal fitness plan in a fully equipped fitness suite.
- art, music (instruments, vocals and production) and dance tuition in our fully equipped art room, music room and dance studios
Surrey Docks Farm
Surrey Docks Farm will deliver regular weekly sessions where young people decide together which activities, they carry out including animal care, food growing, cooking healthy meals, rural crafts, and environmental and social action projects. Young people will benefit from improved health and wellbeing, practical educational opportunities, experience of the world of work and improved social connectivity.
In addition, young people can visit the Farm for free, seven days a week during our opening hours. They can access extra support from their Youth Worker through drop-in Friday after-school groups and we offer pre-arranged 1:1 sessions for those most vulnerable, both of which enable additional mentoring and advice.
Ballers Academy
Ballers Academy aims to deliver a diverse range of free inclusive sports activities within the Rotherhithe area, Surrey Docks ward, with a primary focus on young people aged between 11–16-year-olds, and up to 25-year-olds for SEND. Their strategic choice of venues, The Dockland Settlements and Peter Hills School 3G pitch ensures accessibility and a welcoming atmosphere for all residents to participate in sports and foster community belonging. The activities include:
- girls-only football sessions
- community football sessions
- talent pathway sessions
- SEND sports activities
Active Communities Network
Kickstart Youth is a new series of positive activities delivered across the SE1 and SE17 postcodes. They will focus investment into positive activities and invest partnership funding into their well-crafted progression pathway that delivers across other areas in the borough. They are proposing to deliver a package of youth-led activities that focus on sports, arts and mentoring/informal education work. As a progression pathway, they will facilitate a wider social action and volunteering offer to young people aged 14 plus.
South London Gallery
Art Block is the South London Gallery’s off-site creative space on Sceaux Gardens Estate, offering free after-school and weekend sessions for local young people. While open to all local young people, their work at Art Block is built on the longstanding relationships they have with their immediate neighbours on the Pelican, Sceaux Gardens and Elmington estates. Each year around 150 young people access Art Block. Activities are responsive to their beneficiaries and deliver a combination of life skills (for example, cooking, teamwork, socialising) and wellbeing opportunities (i.e. creative pursuits and recreational sports).
Spring Community Hub
Spring Community Hub plans to deliver three hours after school sessions, three times per week, which support young people to:
- socialise well
- move well
- volunteer well
- protect the outdoors well
- learn well
- eat well
Each session will have a theme, which unites the activities. For example, the theme of ‘Mental wellbeing,’ could focus on physical activity, life skills and food to promote positive mental health.
The Empowerment People
The "Empowering Young Southwark: Unlocking Opportunities" employability initiative is a comprehensive program aimed at empowering youths in Southwark, London. This initiative addresses the pressing challenges of high unemployment, inadequate skills, and limited access to sustainable employment opportunities within the community.
Through personalised one-on-one support and engaging group classes, they will equip participants with essential job-related skills, boost their confidence, and bridge the skills gap. Their program is open to individuals of all ages, genders, and ethnic backgrounds, reflecting our commitment to inclusivity and diversity.
The Oxford and Bermondsey Club (OBC)
OBC will be delivering a project that will provide positive diversionary activities and non-formal educational opportunities for young people to participate in. This will include socialising with their friends and achieving through the delivery of workshops shaped by young people themselves, to raise levels of achievement, developing of life skills, promoting positive citizenship, improving health & wellbeing, reducing anti-social behaviour and preventing young people from becoming at risk of offending. They will aim to have four sessions per week.
Fight for Change Foundation
Fight 4 Change will deliver a package of boxing, fitness, mentoring and personal development across three distinct cohorts, both of whom are at heightened risk of engaging in the youth justice system. They aim to have 2 sessions per week across the year.
London Sport
London Sport will deliver weekly physical activity sessions for young girls in Peckham, through our Space for Girls project. They aim to do this through co-creating tailored activities for girls aged 12-19 at Peckham Levels, by utilising existing knowledge and intel gathered from our pilot phase, to improve and launch a longer-term offering.
Inspire Walworth
Inspire Walworth will run a comprehensive, inclusive activity programme aimed at young people (ages 10-19 / up to 25 years with SEN) from 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2026. Their programme will include the following weekly activities all year around for twenty-four months, term time and school holidays. Activities will include craft club, digital production, and football and provide hot food at 2 sessions.
Skyway Charity
Skyway Charity plans to deliver free-at-the-point-of-access activities focusing on having fun in a safe and welcoming environment where young people are supported to develop and co-produce activities, they want to engage in. Activities include physical activity (football, gym and basketball) sessions for all abilities; personal development sessions; space to relax and take time to spend with and make new, friends; and regular developmental workshops and courses for those young people who want to engage with them.
The Neurodiversity Family Hub C.I.C
The Neurodiversity Family Hub aims to build a supportive, inclusive and empowering community around neurodiverse young people in Southwark. They envision having a haven where neurodiverse youth can thrive. They propose to deliver two services: My tribe Teens: an after-school club for young people aged 11–18-year-olds and My Tribe Beyond: A social careers-focused club for Neurodiverse People 16-25 years old.
London Community Kitchen
London Community Kitchen aims to deliver a project that will work with those aged 11-24 years with SEND. Providing high-quality healthy nutritional cooking on a budget class, with participants split into two age groups 11-18 and 18-24. The sessions will be held in their community kitchen, a Southwark Council premises. The sessions will take place over a variety of dates and times including during the evening and school holidays.
Kingswood Arts
Kingswood Arts aims to deliver a programme of creative and artistic activities for young people 11 to 18 years old.
Bethwin Road Neighbourhood Playground
Bethwin Road Neighbourhood Playground proposes to deliver youth and play sessions and activities after school and on Saturdays in term time where young people can come to play, meet and make friends, and chill out and relax. They will also have five full-day sessions during school holidays. They involve their members, youth council, as well as their youth council volunteers in the planning, preparation and delivery of workshops and activities that interest them. For example, sports, games, cooking, music, drama, challenges, trips community festivals fund raising etc.
Dog Kennel Hill Adventure Playground
Dog Kennel Hill Adventure Playground (DKHAP) is a safe green place in the heart of an urban community where children and young people can play, learn and develop skills for life. It is open to all children aged 5-15 for free, supervised, open-access offering outdoor and indoor adventure play and activity sessions each weekday after school from 3pm to 6pm and during school holidays from 9am to 5pm. Qualified and experienced play workers, supported by volunteers, staff the playground. Each weekday is classified as a session a day. Therefore, we deliver 5 sessions a week during term time.
Page last updated: 05 August 2024
