The friends of Nathan Foster, who was 18 when he was killed, want to cut violent crime in the London Borough of Lambeth.
Their group, Street Platinum, has received local authority cash to run a project that gives young people in the area access to sporting activities.
The borough also invited the group to present an award to the football team that showed the best sportsmanship in this year's Lambeth World Cup, a summer holiday scheme for young people in the area.
One of Street Platinum's members Joseph Wilson, 21, said: "We want to say to young people we're just like you and there are other avenues to take than violence. We want to make a crooked path straight."
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