SLF featured in The Job
Posted on Friday 15th May 2009 in News
From the May 2009 issue of Metropolitan Police Service magazine The Job:
"For the past four years the Safer London Foundation has been helping London’s communities help themselves.
You’d be hard pressed to find a 15-year-old boy in Britain who would turn down the opportunity to captain a powerboat full throttle down the Thames. The image of a teenager happily pulling U-turns in the water in front of the O2 Arena as his mates egg him on is a welcome change from the usual media portrayal of hoodies hanging out on street corners.
Add to that the notion that these young people aren’t just messing about, but learning skills that will help them toward a career later in life, and it starts to sound like a perfect recipe for keeping them out of trouble.
And that’s music to the ears of the Safer London Foundation (SLF), the Metropolitan Police charity, which has supported dozens of projects aimed at making the capital a safer place to live and work..."
Go to http://www.met.police.uk/job/job1006/the_job_36.pdf to read the full article - Pages 8, 9 and 10 or right click and choose 'Save target as...' to download the pdf.