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Introduction & Background

The development of the London Community Campus started September 2017, as the Youth Charter began to transfer its HQ to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. At the time an increasing number of Young Lives were being Lost on the capital’s streets, including Corey Junior Davis, a 14-year-old schoolboy gunned down in a park in Newham on 4th September 2017. A tragic loss of a young life that was all too similar to that of Benji Stanely, also 14, gunned down in Moss Side, Manchester, 24 years earlier, from which the Youth Charter’s work began.

Community Campus Stakeholder Partner Engagement and Consultation

Since 2017, the Youth Charter has conducted an extensive consultation with Stakeholder Partners and delivered stakeholder engagement meetings and workshops. Lead partners have included London Stadium Learning, London Youth Games, London Stadium and the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC), with the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park providing a London 2012 Games Legacy focus to the London Community Campus.

In 2018, the Youth Charter relocated its headquarters from Salford Quays in Greater Manchester to the University of East London with Lord Sebastian Coe opening the Youth Charter Office on Sport for Development and Peace which is now located at London Stadium Learning in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Stakeholder Partner meetings were held at the University of East London in 2019/20, before the interruption of the COVID Pandemic. However, in 2025 a Stakeholder Partner Group Engagement Workshop was delivered at UCL in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, as part of the Sport England supported national Youthwise Community Campus Project.

Social Coach Leadership Programme (SCLP) Academy, Workshops and Training

A Social Coach Leadership Programme (SCLP) workshop was delivered in East London at the end of January 2019 and attended by over 300 people. Two further SCLP Workshops has since been delivered:

• YC SCLP Workshop @ London Stadium (2023)

• YC SCLP Workshop with London Youth Games (2024)

As part of the Youthwise Community Campus Project the Youth Charter will be recruiting, selecting and deploying Social Coaches with Stakeholder Partners to deliver Youthwise Projects – sport, art, culture and digital activities – with young people and their communities through the London Community Campus.

Youthwise Projects – Sport, Art, Culture & Digital Activities - Engage, Equip, Empower

In January 2018, at the Newham’s Youth Movement’s ‘Addressing Safety through Active Participation’ (ASAP) Conference - which was attended by friends of Corey Junior - Youth Charter Founder and Chair, Prof. Geoff Thompson MBE FRSA DL, pledged to provide: 

• Somewhere To Go (where they would be safe and taken off the streets); 

• Something To Do (with sporting, artistic, cultural and digital activities); and 

• Someone To Show Them (how to develop their mental, physical and emotional life skills resilience).

The Youth Charter consulted widely with young people and community organisations, this included the Newham Youth Commission, which Prof. Geoff Thompson co-chaired, and included over 500 young people in series of workshops through 2018/19. Furthermore, the Youth Charter delivered a number of Youthwise Projects with schools, sport clubs and youth organisations between 2017 and 2020 in London.

In 2023, the Youth Charter Community Day was delivered at the London Stadium Learning and London Marathon Community Track in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The aim of the day was to build cultural bridges of trust, confidence and respect between the local communities and the Metropolitan Police, as part of the Youth Charter’s #YouthVision4MetPolice project. The project’s ultimate aim is to improve the neighbourhood policing relationships with a view to encouraging the recruitment of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities as part of the #BTheChangeYouWant2C recruitment campaign.

The Youth Charter presented LLDC’s “Future Me, Future You” conference in 2022 and 2023 which provided a platform to empower young people, providing career advice, and a voice to young people in east London.

The Youth Charter AAA CiN We Move Youth Social Action project started in May 2023 and concluded at the end of August 2025. This project has included:

• Weekly Sessions took place with debates, discussions and decision making on the community events that would take place, as well as various sporting activities, including boxing, football and athletics, and business / finance workshops with young people at the AAA Glyn Hopkin Abbey Hub in Newham

• Team Games Event delivered with the young people at Carpenters Primary School

• Family Fun Day delivered with the young people at Abbey Lane Open Space in Newham

The Youth Charter Team and Ambassadors have been on hand to support the London Youth Games, which is one of the largest youth events in the UK and around the world, with tens of thousands of young people competing in 31 sports and 12 para-sports, from local borough games to a London Festival Finals at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. 

The London Youth Games (LYG) is a lead Stakeholder Partner of the London Community Campus, with LYG Social Coaches sharing and discussing the Youthwise Sessions they are delivering in the campus Group and uploading to the Record of Achievement and Reflective Learning areas on the Youth Charter Community Campus Portal.