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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).