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About us
Who we are
About LMK
Good relationships shape our health and happiness, yet we are taught so little about them. LMK is a registered education charity (1191149) on a mission to change that. We run workshops educating young people about healthy and unhealthy behaviours, so that they can avoid abuse and thrive in relationships.
Domestic violence and relationship abuse have a devastating effect on the lives of around 2.3 million people in the UK each year.They can affect anyone, of any background and commonly start during teenage relationships. LMK was created to take a preventative approach to this complex problem. We launched in September 2020, just before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, with a mission to educate young people on how to build positive, healthy relationships, free from abuse.Now in our second year, we have shown that LMK is an organisation capable of achieving ambitious goals and changing young lives.
In our first year, our priority was creating compelling workshop content and laying down roots in the communities we support and building strong partnerships.In our second year, LMK has built on this foundation, flourished and expanded across London. Collaborating with partners from Arsenal Foundation to Ark Global Academy, we have tripled the number of young people we have worked with, the number of London boroughs we operate in and the number of youth workers we have recruited and trained to deliver our workshops. To date, we have worked with 6,087 young people through 390 workshops in 11 London boroughs.
LMK has also deepened its offering through listening to the people we work with.We have built on our core 10 Signs programme to develop new workshops in response to feedback from our partner organisations and the young people we support. We have introduced a CPD programme training adults working with children to have accessible, non-judgemental conversations about relationships to help prevent abuse. We have launched our Inclusive Modules, tailoring our core workshops to make them more accessible and relatable to the lives of young people with special educational needs and disabilities. And we have created Continuing the Conversation workshops, exploring issues affecting young people such as pornography and sharing explicit images without consent.
Through this work, LMK is making a positive impact on the lives of the young people we work with, changing attitudes and promoting skills around relationships, supporting them to acknowledge unhealthy behaviours in their current situations, and empowering them to grow in confidence to help themselves and those around them. This decreases levels of abuse, and helps people recognise and prevent abusive behaviours in themselves and others.
Behind the scenes, we have been supporting LMK’s impact by putting in place the robust systems and processes a growing charity needs. We have stepped up our fundraising efforts, tripling our income to enable us to strengthen LMK and keep pace with demand for our services.
Despite this success, there are still huge challenges all around us. The impact of the last two years continues to bear down on young people’s mental health. Calls to the national domestic abuse helpline remain at a record high.The cost-of-living crisis is set to have a devastating toll on people’s relationships, increasing pressures that exacerbate unhealthy behaviours. LMK will be needed more than ever.
