The money has been awarded by Johnson to the Safer London Foundation to work with the capital’s 10 uniformed youth groups, including the Volunteer Police Cadets, St John’s Ambulance and Army Cadets, to recruit more adult and young people as volunteers and create new groups.
The target is for 38 new uniformed groups to open over the next three years, with two-thirds in areas of high deprivation. It is hoped that the 8,000 young people currently on the organisation’s waiting lists will all be able to join groups by the end of 2014.
This is the latest initiative within Johnson’s Team London strategy to encourage volunteering.
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