To provide a safe and encouraging environment where young people can come together and enjoy structured sports and learning opportunities. To help the young people of Lambeth fulfil their potential and improve their well-being both physically and emotionally through targeted support to children and families.

Why the community needs us
The St. Matthew's Project exists to provide a safe and encouraging environment where young people can come together and enjoy structured football sessions and other activities, including trips, volunteering, training and education opportunities, healthy lifestyle workshops and one-to-one support. We aim to help the children and young people of Tulse Hill and Brixton fulfil their potential and have a real impact on their community through the provision of positive, credible activities.

Our impact on the community
The St. Matthew’s Project provides a safe and encouraging environment where 3-25-year-olds can come together and enjoy structured football sessions and other activities. We help children and young people living mainly in the Windrush and Coldharbour wards of Lambeth fulfil their potential and have a real impact on their community. What began in 2004 as a kick-about in Brockwell Park is now a thriving youth project, which offers a growing array of programmes and services to over 350 young people each week, bringing them together from 3 different housing estates, which historically would not have anything to do with each other.  It is part of our ethos to offer those we work with more than just the chance to participate in a football project. We support young people to make the transition from sports participation to accessing further sporting, educational or employment opportunities as they get older.