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17 Sep 2010 |
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 Earlier this year LandAid, the property industry charity awarded New Horizons Youth Centre a grant of £8,800 to fund their innovative project that is educating young people against carrying guns and knives. The project has been praised by Tim Loughton MP the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children.New Horizons Youth Centre is an award winning charity based in King’s Cross that helps 3,000 young people a year who are vulnerable, homeless or at risk. LandAid’s grant has allowed them to deliver a programme of workshops at schools and colleges in Greenwich, Barnet, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hackney, Newham, Croydon and Waltham Forest. The workshops have reached 430 of the most disadvantaged young people across the capital and those in most need of information and choices around gun and knife crime. Feedback has shown how much the young people have gained from the valuable learning experience. Their comments included "I learnt not to ever carry a knife when I grow up" and "I don’t think guns are ever a good idea". All of the pupils said they would change "nothing" about the workshops except one pupil who said "you should come every week". New Horizons Youth Centre |
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