“Lambeth Schools Patrol is more than a presence on the streets — it’s a lifeline of trust, safety, and hope for young people navigating daily challenges. We stand not to police, but to protect, listen, and uplift our community — one conversation at a time.”
— LSP Volunteer and Community Advocate

People wearing yellow reflective vests walking on a busy city sidewalk under a bridge, with stores and trees in the background.

Lambeth Schools Patrol (LSP) was born out of a community call for action and a series of workshops in which the community played a vital role in the decision to start this project.

The work we do to support both young people and their families provides us with opportunities to seek their feedback on what the believe communities needs are from both a young person centred and a wider community approach.

We strive to empower young people and their families to build resilience, and promote personal development.

The experiences of young people within our community highlights the importance of the work we do in befriending, mentoring, promoting educational progression and community citizenship which aligns with our goal to reducing violence, fostering well-being, and a public health approach to creating solutions and forward planning.

We take a unique approach to our work through the integration of therapeutic practices, music therapy, and self-help strategies both as an organisation and as community leaders.

We regularly hold community consultations, work in partnership and support the needs of the community by participating in borough and London wide initiatives to reduce youth violence.

Testimonials

  • “We kick started this project in 2017 and held project design workshops with local communities and statutory stakeholders. It took two years to get this right developing the LSP project delivery and training package, including safeguarding procedures, mental and advanced first aid training and ensuring volunteers knew where all the community projects offering help to young people with the ability to refer young people to those projects. With the support of BID the project launched and the response form the public and young people has been amazing. They love that we are independent, self-funded through businesses, public donations, and volunteer effort. When we’re out on patrol the public consistently commend our efforts to support young people. The project has been a massive success and after a lengthy enforced delay we’re now rebooting LSP for 2022.”

    Asher Senator, Code 7 CEO and local reggae legend

  • “This is our second year funding this brilliant project and we are delighted to back them again. Community and business partnerships are an important feature of a vibrant town centre like Brixton. What we’ve seen in supporting this project is that a small amount of funding can make a remarkable and tangible difference to people's lives. The project forms part of BID’s overall goal of working with community initiatives such as LSP in making the central Brixton area a pleasant and safe place to work and live.”

    Elly Foster, Satay Bar owner and Chair of Brixton BID

  • “Lambeth Schools Patrol is a vitally important community initiative working to support children and young people to stay safe on their way home from school. They are currently looking for local volunteers to help relaunch their service after it was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. I strongly encourage anyone who can make a regular commitment of time on weekday afternoons to visit the volunteer recruitment shop in Brixton Market."

    Helen Hayes, local MP

  • “I’ve seen first-hand the fantastic work of the Lambeth School Patrol and Code 7 has delivered. The transformational effects on volunteers, on young people and the confidence and pride it generates in the wider community is hugely inspiring. Community led public health projects such LSP provide a fantastic example of the kind of community volunteer and business partnerships that can make a real difference and tangible difference to young Londoners’ lives. Particularly impressive is Code 7's commitment to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding standards. Safer London is proud to support this project.”

    Sherrylyn Peck, CEO of Safer London

  • “We know that prevention and wealth creation through community mobilisation are critical underpinnings if we are to create safer, happier communities for our families. Code 7’s leadership understands this and have worked to make it manifest in their practice and for that we applaud them. We look forward to continuing to provide strategic support for their initiatives, especially the Lambeth Street Patrol and we urge you to Volunteer and sign up now for their first-class induction training. The Lambeth School Patrol is a powerful benchmark for those-both Civil Society and For Profit-Who seek to serve our community, time for people to stop the talking and start showing up in-person.”

    Mr Viv Ahmun, Blaksox

  • “Hosting the Lambeth School Patrol recruitment campaign is an honour that myself and the team at Brixton Village can’t wait to shout about. This powerful and deeply required initiative makes a real difference to the positive safeguarding of the young people in our community. We hope that this central site pop up in the Village will act as a thriving base for the Lambeth School patrol team to not only promote the work they do, but successfully recruit for the new cohort of patrollers for our Borough.”

    Diana Nabagereka, General Manager of Brixton Village