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People in central and south London held back by severe disadvantage will be helped to improve their employability and move towards sustainable employment, thanks to support from the Building Better […]

St Giles Trust, which supports ex-offenders and adults facing disadvantage, and Royal London Society (RLS), one of the UK’s oldest charities assisting ex-offenders, is set to merge with St Giles

Our SOS Project, helping young people out of gangs, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Since its start, it has helped over 3,000 young Londoners caught up in gangs. The ex-offender led

SOS Project Founder, Junior Smart reflects on ten years of SOS and why ex-offenders are the most rational solution to solving the problems facing the team’s young clients. “Why would you want to

An independent study by Pro Bono Economics has shown that support for disadvantaged young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) can help deliver long term benefits to the

Once the smoke cleared from that terrifying week in August 2011 it gave us all the opportunity to take stock and look at why young people felt the only way

We will be training 50 men in HMP Wandsworth under our award-winning Peer Advisor Programme – the prison where it initially started with just a handful of prisoners in 2002. We train serving prisoners

Carrying a knife does not protect you and can have deadly consequences. This was the message to young people from Junior Smart, founder of our SOS Project, at Drop the Knife in

South Londoners got an added extra with their morning latte today (Tuesday 5 April) when 2016 London mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith officially launched Camberwell-based Brewbird café. The social enterprise from St

Coping with a prison sentence and the rocky road that follows release from it is a challenging for anyone. But it can be paticularly traumatic for the people affected by