"Winning the award really opened up doors for us," said Mohammed Sadiq Mamdani, founder of the helpline. "It raised our profile to funders and young people in the project got a real morale boost."
The organisation has received funding of 90,000 from the Camelot Foundation to work on the web portal until December 2006. It is also planning to expand its service to seven days a week by September 2005. The helpline has received 2,000 calls this year, three times as many as this time last year, and has doubled the number of volunteers to 25, according to Mamdani.
Nominations have opened for this year's Philip Lawrence Awards, with a deadline of 17 September. The ceremony will be held on 7 December and winners receive 1,000.
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