Crime Charity Tackles Donation from Police Rugby Team

Tony Shepherd, Safer London Foundation Chief Executive, was outside New Scotland Yard this week with Commander Bob Broadhurst to receive a cheque for £4,000 from Brendan McLaughlin, Police Business Manager for O2.

This donation resulted from a Met rugby team’s success at an O2 six-a-side rugby challenge event at Twickenham stadium late last year. One of the two Met teams taking part won the competition and chose Safer London Foundation, the Metropolitan Police Charity, as the beneficiary of the £4000 prize.

Met Commissioner Visit: London’s Crime Prevention Projects Receive Cash Boost

Crime reduction projects across London will receive a welcome cash boost today, thanks to money recovered from criminals being channelled into local crime prevention initiatives.

Confiscated from criminal activity by the Police, under the Proceeds of Crime Act (2002), around £170,000 in cash will be allocated to several grass-roots projects, which work to divert young people away from street crime, gang-related violence and weapons offences.

London Business Leaders Dine in the Clink

It wouldn't normally make the news, but London's business leaders were treated to a gourmet lunch with a difference today, as food was prepared and served by inmates working in the Highdown Prison restaurant.

Organised by the Safer London Foundation (SLF), the Metropolitan Police Charity, companies experienced first-hand culinary skills of offenders who are training to be chefs, kitchen staff and waiters, so that they may gain work and make a positive contribution to society following their release.

People Power Celebrates Hundredth Crime Prevention Course

Local crime prevention groups were celebrating across London this week as the one hundredth training seminar was given to leaders of the capital’s ward policing panels.

Joined by the Deputy Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Tim Godwin, a number of Safer Neighbourhoods Panel leaders will meet at New Scotland Yard (on Monday 23rd November) to celebrate the achievement and inspire other Londoners to join and make a difference.

Helping to Keep Local Policing Locally Accountable

With presentations from Cindy Butts, MPA Deputy Chair, and Kit Malthouse, London's Deputy Mayor  for Policing, The Met's Head of Safer Neighbourhoods, Chief Superintendent Adrian Hanstock, and a host of community representatives, the Community Engagement  Programme Conference was the only place to be for any one interested in keeping London's policing locally accountable.

Met Police Team Takes it to the Wire in True 'Five Oh' Style at Charity Raft Race

What would you do if offered four large plastic barrels, eight fat bamboo poles and 10 metres of poly rope?  Well, the right answer is build a raft and get yourself sponsored and that’s exactly what the sixteen teams who entered the Safer London Foundation (SLF) Raft Race did before putting their craft to the test on, or more accurately in, the murky waters of Wimbledon Park Lake.

London Charity Chief Celebrated As Top Community Hero

Tony Shepherd, Chief Executive of Safer London Foundation, is recognised for outstanding community-business links in Business in the Community’s 2009 Awards for Excellence.

Tony Shepherd has today been awarded the London Marks & Spencer Sieff Award ‘for an individual, based in the community, who has best collaborated with business to benefit society,’ one of the most prestigious categories in Business in the Community’s (BITC’s) 2009 Awards for Excellence.

Interserve PLC and Safer London Foundation join forces

Interserve PLC has become the latest company to pledge its support to the Safer London Foundation, the  Metropolitan Police charity.

The new partnership will see Interserve donate £25,000 a year over the next three years to SLF in return for membership of the Safer London Foundation Club.

SLF featured in The Job

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..."

Crime Charity Raffle goes with a Bang!

The Met have donated a day exploring the perils and uses of explosives, including the chance to blow up that laptop you love to hate, as one of eighty fabulous prizes in what the crime prevention charity is describing as ‘The Mother of All Raffles.