Location and general information
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Employability - 
Healthy lifestyle - 
Personal development - 
Strengthening partnershipsContext
Newham’s young people face significant challenges, including high levels of poverty, exposure to violence and poor physical and mental health. Activity levels among children are low, childhood obesity is rising, and support services are overstretched. Statutory funding for youth organisations has stopped, while underemployment and low qualification levels among young people persist. The need for safe spaces, trusted mentors and positive opportunities has never been more urgent.
Project goals
Using sport as a catalyst for personal development and growth, the project motivates young people to improve their relationships, their self-image and perception of others and their vision for the future. Fight for Peace International will help participants to feel fitter, safer, less lonely and more confident. Coaches act as trusted mentors, and young people are encouraged to make better choices, try harder at school, set and achieve personal goals and interact with people from diverse backgrounds.
Project content
- Fitness: inclusive boxing and martial art sessions for all abilities, including sessions for children aged 7 to 14, women and disabled and neurodivergent young people
- Education: homework club and intervention programmes for at-risk young people
- Employability: training, guidance and qualification support to build skills and encourage career progression
- Youth leadership: weekly youth council meetings shaping the organisation’s work and decisions
- Support services: one-to-one and group mentoring, including gender-specific support groups
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