Youth groups receive £225,000 funding
Adam Offord
Monday, October 5, 2015
Scores of youth groups are to be given a share of £225,000 funding from a charitable foundation.
Among the groups to receive money from the Jack Petchey Foundation are mentoring charity ReachOut, which delivers after-school mentoring projects across 19 schools in London, and New Addington Little League, which provides guidance for young people through football.
Fight For Peace, a martial arts club in Newham that encourages young gang members to take up sport, alongside Bromley’s Magpie Dance, which arranges dance and club activities for children and young people with learning difficulties.
The additional funding has been allocated to mark the 15th anniversary of the foundation. Since it was established it has invested a total of £100m into programmes and projects that benefit young people aged 11 to 25 in the capital and Essex.
Ninety-year-old founder Jack Petchey, said: “I am proud of all the programmes we’ve been involved in and every single young person who has participated.
“We aim to help young people believe that ‘if I think I can, I can’, so that whatever their background, they will achieve, they will make positive contributions to society, and they will be satisfied in their lives.”
Mayor of London Boris Johnson, added: "As Mayor of London I have seen that the work of the Jack Petchey Foundation is inspirational and really motivates the young people of London and Essex to achieve.”
