Charity bosses who divert young people from gangs and county line drug networks have backed our campaign to give youths vital wrap-around support to skill up and find meaningful employment – so proving the adage that ‘nothing stops a bullet like a job’.
Junior Smart, founder of the SOS Gangs Project run by St Giles Trust and a former gang leader himself, called our campaign “a brilliant route” to helping marginalised young people escape a life of violence and crime and prepare to enter into meaningful employment. And Sayce Holmes-Lewis founder and CEO of youth mentoring group Mentivity, said our £1m campaign in partnership with Barclays LifeSkills was “important” at this time of high youth unemployment, with many young people “desperate” to lift themselves out of negative environments.
