Teens Unite is a small charity with big ambitions. We provide ongoing support to young people with cancer, from the moment of diagnosis, through treatment and beyond remission, because cancer doesn't stop when the treatment stops. By providing activities, events and workshops we help to rebuild the confidence and self-esteem so often lost in a battle with this illness and motivate and enable these young people to plan for a life beyond cancer.

Purpose: • Manage the delivery of Specialist Crime Prevention services across the organisation; develop and drive the relevant policies and strategies to ensure delivery of reducing crime; work with partners in the statutory and voluntary sector to provide a joined-up approach to crime prevention and influence the use of research and evaluation to inform the evidence base and decision making.Achievements:• Managed the review and renegotiation for funding for key crime prevention projects to ensure they continued to meet organisational needs whilst reducing costs; resulted in the continued delivery of services, as well as improving delivery.• Managed the delivery of two EU Partnership projects: The HEART Project with Lithuania to deliver educational input and one-to-one support to young people regarding healthy relationships and the Swedish Operation Panther project contributing the UK submissions of prevention opportunities against organised crime and gangs• Established a new design for the delivery of crime prevention services in the MPS to provide a more coordinated, but flexible approach to the delivery of crime prevention, whilst delivering savings. As the project lead I developed the model and achieved wider organisational buy-in by demonstrating the benefits of the new design which was a significant change to current delivery.• Project Oracle (London’s Youth Evidence Hub, providing standards for the evaluation of youth-focused programmes, hosted by the Greater London Authority (GLA)) Evidence Champion - ensuring that all prevention project the MPS is engaged with have the appropriate evaluation in place in order to assess success.