4in10 Events
4in10 run events both for and collaboratively with our members. From practical, skills-based events to capacity building workshops, we aim to provide a diverse and useful offering for our members. Become a member for free to hear about and get involved in 4in10 events and activities.
We have set up a Policy Forum within 4in10, to bring members together to discuss all things relating to policy and child poverty in London. In Oct 2023 our Strategic Programme Manager, Katherine, joined the London Partnership Board as a representative of the community and voluntary sectors which provides us with an excellent opportunity to feed into high level strategic discussions about the big issues affecting London and we propose to use these meetings to ensure that she is reflecting the membership’s views in these discussions. Sign up to join the mailing list for the forum here. The Forum meets quarterly and there will be no formal membership – any 4in10 member will be welcome to attend on a meeting by meeting basis.
Upcoming Events
A new deal for young people? Lessons from VRUs and ambitions for young people’s futures
2nd April 2025, 11:00am-12:30pm
Online – Free
How do we get a better deal for young people in London? The Mayor of London continues to fund high-quality mentoring across the capital and dedicate funding to London’s Violence Reduction Unit. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced the Young Futures unit as her strategic path forward to see a halving of violence involving young people across the next decade. These ambitions are welcomed, but what lessons should we learn from the good work already taking place?
Niven Rennie, a leading expert on interventions that work for and with young people draws upon his experience in the police force, as well as the former Director of Scotland’s Violence Reduction Unit and Chair of Hope Collective in drafting an important report ‘Violence Reduction Units at a Crossroads – A Positive Future?’
Join us online to consider both the social and political landscape of youth support. How do we protect young people from involvement in violence by looking upstream at the particular needs and vulnerabilities that young people across London face? We will be discussing the report (worth a read beforehand!) as a foundation to questions about how to influence funders and government to make the evidence-based, sustainable investment in the services that protect young people from the root causes of violence such as poverty, social isolation, ill mental health and lack of educational and employment opportunities. The event will begin with a presentation before moving into an open Q&A.
To learn more about the event and to register, follow this link.
Child Poverty Free Community Event – Croydon
9th April 2025, 10:00am-12:00pm
In Person- Free
CVA Resource Centre, 82 London Road, Croydon, CR0 2TB
4 in10 is hosting an in-person two-hour event for current or prospective members of London’s Child Poverty Network.
The purpose of this event will be to provide local organisations and residents across Croydon with up to date information on the context of child poverty across the borough. We will highlight growing or emerging challenges as well as provide an overview of the training and support that 4in10 provides and our current activities. There will also be an opportunity to meet or catch up with local organisations and get to know other local organisations in the network or what groups might be working on similar issues elsewhere across neighbouring communities in London.
We are extremely grateful to our friends in Croydon Voluntary Action (CVA) for hosting us and to Steve Phaure and Shalina Alabaksh at CVA for supporting the planning of this event.
We will also be providing a light lunch and drinks.
To register please click here
4in10 Open Coffee Mornings
If you would like to co-host a coffee morning with 4in10 to discuss a particular theme, please get in touch.
4in10 Open Coffee Mornings are free, fun and open to everyone who shares concern on issues relating to growing child poverty in our capital. Open Coffee Morning sessions are thematic, usually online and with one overarching area which frames the discussion. However, the sessions are truly flexible; attendees can contribute, participate, and engage in ways and on areas that matter to them.
Previous Coffee Mornings:
- Cost of Returning To School
- Youth Workers, Afterschool Clubs and Play Workers
- Levelling Up London
- Young people and cycles of violence
- Annual ‘BIG Coffee Morning’
- Childcare In The Capital
- Poverty in Outer London Boroughs
- Housing and Homelessness
- Benefits and Income
- Health Inequalities In London