Goals: A photography project to divert girls away from gangs
Funding: 900 from the Bermondsey Community Fund
Capitalising on young women's interest in fashion has been one youth club's way of distracting girls from getting involved in gangs.
A four-week fashion photography pilot project run by the Downside Fisher Youth Club in Bermondsey, southeast London, has had lots of interest from girls on four local estates, who get to work on both sides of the lens.
Danny Webb, senior youth worker and manager at Downside Fisher Youth Club, says: "We recognised that there are lots of gangs developing in Bermondsey, and lots of girls were tagging on to these and were getting plied with drugs and alcohol by the boys. A lot of them were also isolated on their estates, so we decided to bring them together to help empower them."
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