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We will continue to work tirelessly to help keep our young Londoners safe. The home and away jerseys made an instant impact, built up a big waiting list, and gave the East London club the attention it so deserves. The adult members of the club all volunteer two hours a month to local causes and organisations which has propelled us into the heart of the Hackney Community. Bobby Kasanga founded Hackney Wick Football Club in 2015; Hackney’s first ever semi professional football club in nearly a century. We do this by offering educational workshops, sporting opportunities, mentoring and access to work opportunities, which actively engage with those already involved in gangs, or those on-the-brink of gang life, and those who might not be aware of the threats out there (as a safeguarding tool).We are a community club whose members and players volunteer our services for free to the Hackney community. Our nickname is the Wickers. A list of the current players and coaches for Hackney Wick FC Youth Academy He highlighted his commitment to focusing on prevention, and set out how he is bringing forward some of the money from his £45m Young Londoners Fund to invest in a series of projects providing a range of diversionary activities from football and swimming to cookery lessons for about 3,500 young Londoners who are most at risk of becoming involved in crime this summer. "Statement from London’s Independent Victims Commissioner on ICO report into mobile phone data use This is a dynamic search form and results will populate below the input as you type.This input is an autocomplete input, results will display as you type.Sadiq visits one of the first projects to receive funding from his Young Londoners Fund this summerThe Mayor highlighted the importance of prevention in tackling the root causes of violent crime, and warned that government cuts have led to reductions in youth services across the capital, failing young peopleNo government money from the £11m announced in their Serious Violence Strategy has yet been spent The Mayor is also calling on boroughs, community groups, charities, youth centres and schools to provide City Hall with details of youth schemes they are running to be added to an interactive map launching in AugustLondon, Sadiq Khan, today visited one of the first of hundreds of activities he is funding to help keep young people away from the dangers of crime. We are not your regular football club as our ethos is based on community engagement and uniting the local diverse groups as well as battling peer pressure and tackling gang influences. Attendees included representatives from Business Crime Reduction Partnerships, Business Improvement Districts, Trading Standards, Local Police, national retailers, independent retailers, the British Retail Consortium and British Independent Retailer Association.MOPAC is creating the London Knife Crime Dashboard which will be publicly available. Policing alone will not solve violent crime – we also need a relentless focus on prevention so we can give young Londoners the opportunity to fulfil their potential.” "The Street Tekkers initiative is something we have been planning for some time and we hope that it encourages familiarity between youths from different communities and helps to put an end to post code wars.“We will be running a full football programme five days a week during the summer holidays and we want as many youths to take part as possible.”Brian Akintokun, Community Development Director of Hackney Wick FC said: “What is unique about our club is that we are always finding new initiatives to fight the issue of knife crime.