ALFORD HOUSE

£2,600 (6.5 days) to provide an eco audit.

Capital refurbishment project at Alford House

Cost of Living Top Up Grant awarded to support small/medium-size organisations with additional costs incurred due to the cost of living crisis.

The Club will combine open access activities with targeted work to ensure that young people aged 10-19 engage with support when it is needed and avoid any stigma associated with receiving targeted support. Alford House has identified two activities ....more

The Club will combine open access activities with targeted work to ensure that young people aged 10-19 engage with support when it is needed and avoid any stigma associated with receiving targeted support. Alford House has identified two activities as vehicles for young people gaining additional support, Music Production and Health and Fitness. These two activities will provide an entry point for young people to gain 1:1 support to help with school transition, school disengagement, confidence and motivation.

The project is using funding to continue running workshops in schools and at their youth club. Activities include sports art music production dance health and fitness training and roller skating. The project aims to increase young people’s ....more

The project is using funding to continue running workshops in schools and at their youth club. Activities include sports art music production dance health and fitness training and roller skating. The project aims to increase young people’s self-esteem and emotional control leading to healthier decision making.

Alford House wish to deliver a programme of support that combines school-based and youth club based intervention to improve the mental health and resilience of young people as a way to reduce the numbers suffering fixed and permanent exclusions. The ....more

Alford House wish to deliver a programme of support that combines school-based and youth club based intervention to improve the mental health and resilience of young people as a way to reduce the numbers suffering fixed and permanent exclusions. The programme will work in 3 local schools (Lilian Baylis, Arch Bishop Tennison and Elm Green) and with approximately 90% Lambeth low-income families. 2 of the 3 schools are a very short walk from Alford House and thus attract many children from the community that Alford House staff know so well. The project will then provide small-group sessions, 1:1 work, motivational speakers and access to youth services at Alford House (such as music production and a gym) providing 'wrap-around' support that recognises and embraces how community and home life impact school behaviour and commitment. The curriculum has been developed over several years by Alford House but will now be updated to draw more heavily on young people's experiences of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matters movement. The programme will also use a group of highly successful professional mentors/speakers (all of whom have the lived experience and grown up in similar circumstances to the young people they are targetted) to act as inspirational role models.

Building Lambeth's Young Communities

Targeted Youth Support - 2017/18

Targeted Youth Support