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Team Spotlights

Introducing David, Business Development Manager

This month, we're talking with David, who has supported our Business Development team for the past five years, and has recently become part of our Senior Management Team where he's helping to shape LifeLine's future. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? It's about turning LifeLine's vision and strategy into on-the-ground programmes and services by securing funding and working...

4 weeks ago

 by LifeLine Comms Team

Team Spotlights

Introducing Klara, Families Project Coordinator

This month, we're talking with Klara, who recently re-joined our team to coordinate delivery of our new Community Parenting Academy programme across London. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? The Community Parenting Academy teaches Peer Mentoring with the aim of turning parents into leaders that can support other parents and their wider community. It builds on the Mayor...

2 months ago

 by LifeLine Comms Team

Team Spotlights

Introducing Monique, Youth Development Worker

This month, we're talking with Monique, a Youth Development Worker with our SW!TCH team, who both mentors and runs positive activities for young people. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I'm part of the SW!TCH team and I mentor young people across four different schools. I also run our roller-skating positive activity for the young people.My role requires...

3 months ago

 by LifeLine Comms Team

Team Spotlights

Introducing Aimeshinim, Community Coordinator

This month, we're talking with Aimeshinim, our Community and Wellbeing Coordinator who works I was born and raised in Hackney by my parents with eleven siblings. Living in such a crowded home was very stressful and made me want a quieter and more peaceful place to live.When I turned eighteen, I had my first child. I now have three daughters,...

5 months ago

 by LifeLine Comms Team

Articles

A vision for 2050

LifeLine Projects was founded in 2000 by a group of volunteers from a local church in East London who saw a need in their local community. Realising that they could be part of the solution, they began working with isolated and marginalised women and vulnerable young people to help them become agents for change within their community. In those early...

6 months ago

 by Nathan Singleton

Team Spotlights

Introducing Jenna, Young People’s Services Manager

This month, we’re talking with Jenna, Young People’s Services Manager, who joined us last year. Jenna leads, manages and coordinates our work with young people through our various SW!TCH programmes.

6 months ago

 by LifeLine Comms Team

Articles

A tribute to Terry King, servant-mentor

It feels like serving no longer seems fashionable. In a culture that prizes visibility, influence, and personal advancement, service can appear more like a step backwards than forwards. Perhaps that is why we often prefer to say volunteer instead, a term that allows us to help without appearing small. Yet, real service always comes with a cost—it requires the deliberate...

7 months ago

 by Nathan Singleton

Articles

The power of showing up

The story of the Good Samaritan has been told for generations. A man, beaten and left for dead, is ignored by both a priest of his faith and by a member of his community. But then comes a stranger—someone who could even be considered his enemy—who stops and helps him. The stranger ensures he receives care and even pays for...

8 months ago

 by John Carruthers

News

LifeLine Projects hosts first-ever Sports Day for 25th Anniversary

On Wednesday 23rd July, LifeLine Projects hosted its first-ever Sports Day to mark its 25th anniversary. The event took place at Mayfield Secondary School and Sixth Form College in Redbridge, bringing together staff, young people, parents, carers, and members of the local community. The day was organised by Jenna-Marie Singh, head of Young People team, with the support of many...

1 year ago

 by LifeLine Comms Team

Case Studies

Vanita’s journey of confidence and communication

When Vanita first arrived in the UK from India, she brought with her a degree in accountancy and a strong determination to succeed. But there was one major challenge: language. “I spoke very little English when I moved here,” Vanita recalls. “You think it is going to be easier once you arrive, but many people here do not speak a...

1 year ago

 by LifeLine Comms Team

Articles

“So, what does it really mean to be a development organisation?”

In everything we do, we don’t want people to rely on LifeLine forever. Instead, we aim to help them become confident, independent, and active members of their community. We want them to live full lives and support others, becoming a positive force for change in their own neighbourhoods.

1 year ago

 by Nathan Singleton

Articles

The loss of my father, my hero, and my greatest mentor

I have often spoken about Richard Cole, "Words cannot express how the love he carried was unlike anything we'd seen before." As the leaders of his generation are called home, we should not only fill the space but consider the next steps we need to make to take society further. We need to consider if we will be the brave...

1 year ago

 by Nathan Singleton

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