We are proudly supporting Knife Crime Awareness Week 2025 – #StopKnifeCrime. Recently released end-of-year impact data has shown that 2,429 young people engaged with our projects, helping address Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) during the financial year 24/25. This means every 3.5 hours another young person came to us looking for help.
Every 3.5 hours, another young person came to us looking for help
St Giles provides a range of projects addressing CCE, ranging from intensive support to children and young people already involved to one-to-one mentoring and preventative work for those at risk. Our projects are based in several settings:
- schools
- hospitals
- community-based mobile drop-ins.
The data also shows that 14,770 one-to-one support sessions were carried out, underlining the crucial role of intensive mentoring and guidance to help young people overcome barriers holding them back from safety and positive progress.
The clients were typically aged between 15 and 25 years old, though some were as young as 9. Girls and young women accounted for 29% despite the fact less than 2% of funding for projects addressing violence reduction nationally is aimed at women and girls.
Our impact supporting young people
Regardless of continuing funding challenges for work supporting children and young people, our teams remained committed to achieving every possible positive outcome they could for their clients:
- 1,168 improved their school engagement
- 1,401 improved their relationships with family and peers
- 322 reduced or completely stopped going missing
- 310 exited gangs
- 273 exited county lines exploitation
Tracey Burley, Chief Executive at St Giles, said:
“The human stories behind these headline figures are moving and inspiring. We have been able to help children and young people who were often in dire and desperate situations to turn their lives around, stay safe and benefit from the opportunities that every young person deserves.
She continued:
“We are extremely grateful to all our funders and supporters who make this work possible. This is particularly vital at a time when the funding landscape is challenging and organisations like St Giles are seeing demand for their services increasing.”