Tag: SW!TCH


LifeLine wins £500k funding to expand youth work in east London
We’re very excited to announce that LifeLine Projects has recently been awarded £500,000 from the Mayor of London’s New Deal for Young People fund to deliver our award-winning SW!TCH mentoring programme to schools across Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and Redbridge




Stories and successes from the second year of SW!TCH Minds
Back in June 2021, we presented you with some stats from the first full year of SW!TCH Minds. The programme has now been operating for over two full years and two cohorts of young people have taken part in a




Introducing Ruth Lowe, Head of Young People’s Services
We’re excited to welcome Ruth to the LifeLine team, where she’ll be guiding our youth work and the SW!TCH programme as our new Head of Young People’s Services.
We hope you enjoy getting to know Ruth as much as we did!










A farewell to Daniel Chery, SW!TCH Minds Manager
At the end of last month, we said farewell to Daniel Chery, who had been managing our SW!TCH Minds programme for the past two-and-a-half years. We’re sad to see Daniel go, as his passion for supporting young people and drive










Current SW!TCH Activities
Our SW!TCH team are out and about, holding positive activities for young people across Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and Redbridge. See the timetable below to find out where they’ll be! If you want to join in, get in touch with







Listening to the voices of Generation Zoom
On 19 January 2022, we hosted the online event, What is the Future for Generation Zoom? Finding your herd, where we looked at the long-term effects of multiple lockdowns and two years of social distancing on the mental health of young people. During the event, LifeLine Projects CEO Nathan got to speak with two young people from our SW!TCH programme, about their experiences and the support they received thanks to mentoring.










SW!TCHed minds, changed lives: the impact of SW!TCH Minds on vulnerable young people
We wanted to share a few of the inspiring stories we’ve been hearing from young people currently taking part in SW!TCH Minds.










Introducing Anistasia James, Community Development Worker
We are excited to welcome Anistasia to the LifeLine team, who will be working on our new capacity-building SW!TCH Communities programme in the local area. We hope you enjoy getting to know Ani as much as we did!










SW!TCH Lives: Stop and search training with the Metropolitan Police
Stop and search is a popular crime monitoring tool utilised by the Metropolitan Police. It’s viewed as one of the best ways to tackle crime and keep our streets safe. The police have the right to stop and search anyone,







What is the future for Generation Zoom? Finding your herd.
On Wednesday 19th January 2022, we hosted an online event to explore the effects of lockdown on young people and the impact on their mental health.










LifeLine launches new community capacity building programme
LifeLine is pleased to announce the launch of a new capacity building programme, SW!TCH Communities. The programme is funded by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime through the Violence Reduction Unit and the local councils of Barking and Dagenham,






SW!TCH Rights: Finding out how stop and search affects young people
I read recently in a Metropolitan Police report that London youth crime figures have decreased by 50% over the last five years but, in the last year alone, the use of stop and search in England and Wales had risen