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More photos from the @sportingequals Awards, we ca

More photos from the @sportingequals Awards, we can’t believe we had the opportunity to be at such an incredible event let alone win their award for @mindcharity Wellbeing Category. Thank you again to Sporting Equals & our amazing team.

This award is for our incredible families and children who we have the privilege of working with. ❤️

We are incredibly proud to announce that Lasting S

We are incredibly proud to announce that Lasting Support has won the 2026 @sportingequals @mindcharity Wellbeing Award for Sporting Souls.

Commissioned by the Home Office, the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, Violence Reduction Units and individual schools, Sporting Souls uses structured sport and MMA-based training as a therapeutic gateway. Sporting Souls has been delivered across multiple London boroughs, including Ealing, Hackney, Hillingdon, and Cambridgeshire.

Thank you to our team, including Faysal Curry, Paul Moody, Payzee Mahmod, Warda Mohamed, Chris Wild, and Mobs Adeshoye, for their dedication to this project. We couldn’t have done it without you.

If you’re interested in Sporting Souls, you can make an inquiry via info@lastingsupportservices.com.

Building Bridges is our free creative arts program

Building Bridges is our free creative arts program for children and young people in Ealing. We support those aged 4 to 18 who have faced domestic violence or harm at home. Our mission is to lessen the impact of trauma through engaging, child-centred creative activities whilst focusing on holistic, family-centred care.

By strengthening identity, resilience, and belonging, Building Bridges helps prevent the long-term impact of trauma, such as emotional difficulties or relationship challenges. We support children and families to move forward with greater hope, stability, academic engagement, and social connectedness.

To enquire more about Building Bridges, please visit our website at lastingsupport.org or email us directly via info@lastingsupportservices.com.

#EndDomesticViolence #ProtectChildrenandYoungPeople #AccessibleTherapy

"If you offer short-term support, then what you're

"If you offer short-term support, then what you're effectively doing is putting a plaster on a massive wound."

As explained by one of our lead psychotherapists, Paul Moody, Sporting Souls does the opposite, ensuring that the young people we work with have long-term and effective solutions to issues they're facing.

Commissioned by the Home Office, the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, Violence Reduction Units and individual schools, Sporting Souls uses structured sport and MMA-based training as a therapeutic gateway, not simply as recreation. For several participants, physical strength becomes emotional strength, and sport becomes a pathway to healing.

To enquire more about Sporting Souls, please visit our website at lastingsupport.org or email us directly via info@lastingsupportservices.com.

#SportingSouls #MentalHealth #YoungPeople

The role of social media companies has been repeat

The role of social media companies has been repeatedly highlighted in the coverage of events in Clapham, particularly how platforms have both mobilised young people to attend and fuelled fears that disruption would escalate and continue.

What we are witnessing is the evolution of social media into a self-fulfilling engine. Where incidents might once have dissipated, viral posts now give them legitimacy and momentum. The 2019 Area 51 phenomenon showed how online hype did not always translate into real-world action, but today that gap is closing. The recent “Red vs Blue” narratives demonstrate how quickly online content can spill across boroughs, with AI-generated posts amplifying tensions between areas and even schools. Within this ecosystem, multiple actors are involved: concerned parents sharing warnings, young people circulating content, and communities reacting in real time.

Like a lithium battery, once these narratives ignite, they are incredibly difficult to contain. Media literacy alone is no longer sufficient against the scale and speed of dissemination. It is also misleading to frame this solely as a “Clapham” issue, when social media ensures participation and impact extend far beyond one locality. We saw this clearly in summer 2024, when a single post could trigger high street closures, cancelled activities, and widespread fear.

The focus, therefore, should not rest on blaming young people or their parents. It must shift to recognising social media as the primary delivery mechanism, one that allows misinformation, fear, and harmful narratives to escalate rapidly before effective intervention is possible.

Our final reflection is that social media platforms are not just failing to respond, they are enabling further harm. In the aftermath, there has been a surge in racist dog whistles and coded narratives, alongside dehumanising imagery. This harm persists well beyond the event itself. A simple search for “Clapham” on platforms like Instagram or TikTok reveals comment sections saturated with hate, raising urgent questions about platform accountability, moderation, and the safeguarding of online communities.

The hidden dangers of online spaces for young peop

The hidden dangers of online spaces for young people.

Faisal explains that young people in online spaces are exposed to “pale imitations of the real world”, where normal activities like socialising or everyday tasks happen without real consequences. In digital environments, people can hide behind fake identities or create new accounts, which removes accountability.
As a result, children are exposed to grooming, graphic and sexual content, and unsafe interactions. He also describes how young people begin to replace real-life experiences with online ones, seeking friendships in digital spaces where people may lie about who they are, putting children at risk.

#OnlineSafety
#ChildProtection
#DigitalSafety
#Safeguarding
#YouthWork
InternetSafety

Some great news: Sporting Souls is a finalist in t

Some great news: Sporting Souls is a finalist in the for @sportingequals Awards 2026 for their @mindcharity Wellbeing Award!!

It would mean a lot to the people who work on this incredible project alongside the kids that take part every week if you’d take 5 minutes out of your day to vote for us. Link to sign up and vote is in our bio, but please DM if you need any further information!

We are incredibly proud to announce that our CEO,

We are incredibly proud to announce that our CEO, Warda Mohamed, has been awarded the @ikwro True Honour Award 2026 Special Recognition as a Community Champion Working to End Honour-Based Abuse.
Warda has dedicated herself to building a organisation rooted in trauma-informed support, community trust, and relentless advocacy for women and girls facing the most complex and dangerous situations.

This recognition from @ikwro ,one of the UK’s leading Iranian and Kurdish women’s rights organisations truly reflects the depth of that commitment.

We couldn’t be prouder. Congratulations, @wardasagaal 💜

🚨 DANGEROUS UPDATE: 🚨 London’s schools are on red

🚨 DANGEROUS UPDATE: 🚨
London’s schools are on red alert.

The “School Wars” trend currently circulating on TikTok isn’t just another viral challenge. It is the gamification of violence, where children are encouraged to “score points” by harming their peers for digital engagement.

This came up multiple times today alone in our conversations with the young people we work with. That tells us something important: this is not distant internet noise. It is filtering into real school corridors, real friendships, and real vulnerabilities.

At Lasting Support, we believe every child deserves to feel safe in their uniform. When we see behaviour like this, we don’t see “bad kids”. We see unmet needs, trauma, a search for belonging, and the powerful pull of digital status.

Parents and carers, this is the moment to talk!

You don’t need to panic. But you do need to ask:
• Have you heard about this trend?
• What are your friends saying about it?
• How does it make you feel?
• What would you do if someone asked you to take part?

Open conversations reduce risk. Silence increases it.

How you can help right now:

• Interrupt the algorithm – Don’t share, comment on, or rage-post these videos. Engagement increases reach.

• Report directly – Reporting to the platform disrupts visibility at the source.

• Share with other adults – Awareness is our strongest safeguarding tool.

• Save for your next parent or team briefing – These are the “hard-to-talk-about” risks shaping youth culture right now.

If this trend has affected your child, school, or community, or if you’re unsure how to start the conversation, please contact us. Early intervention matters.

Every child deserves safety. Online and offline.

🔗 Link in bio to learn more about our trauma-informed interventions for schools and families.

#londonschools #SchoolWars #safeguarding

Lasting Support’s COO @faysalcurry and Facilitator

Lasting Support’s COO @faysalcurry and Facilitator @payzeespeaks were proud to deliver a session on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) at the Multi-Agency ‘Honour’-Based Abuse Conference 2026.

In collaboration with @thevavengers , we contributed to discussions on the newly launched Global FGM Report, highlighting prevalence, barriers to reporting, and the urgent need for coordinated multi-agency action.
We are proud to be partners of the One Question Campaign,

FGM is violence against women and girls and a safeguarding issue.

Thank you to all agencies committed to strengthening responses and protecting women and girls.

#EndFGM #Safeguarding #HBA #VAWG

Today, we were saddened to hear of the passing of

Today, we were saddened to hear of the passing of Dr Aysha Raza, Ealing Council’s first-ever Muslim woman Cabinet Member and representative of Central Greenford. Spending so much of her time as a fierce advocate for social justice and tackling inequalities, particularly those in health, as well as her tireless advocacy for the NHS, Dr Raza is a reminder that no voice is too small to speak up for what we truly care about.

Dr Raza was dedicated and passionate about ensuring that those in her ward received the utmost respect and care. Devoted to the causes near and dear to her, she frequently made sure to attend and support many in our local community, ensuring that no one felt left out or behind. She was always a familiar face that brought joy, kindness and peace to those around her. We send so much love to her loved ones and hope we can all take a page from her book and engage with our neighbours and community members as individuals with stories to share, as she so often did.

We were honoured to welcome Fuzhan Abasi and her t

We were honoured to welcome Fuzhan Abasi and her team from @familyfirstlawyersuk who have partnered with us to provide specialist legal support and drop-in sessions for our parents as part of our domestic abuse provision.
At Lasting Support, we provide therapeutic support to families affected by domestic abuse but healing must sit alongside protection and access to justice. Fuzhan and her team delivered an incredibly insightful session covering the different legal orders available to survivors, how they work in practice, barriers to accessing legal support, post-separation abuse, and how to safely manage child contact arrangements.
For many of the families we support, navigating the legal system can feel overwhelming and retraumatising. This partnership ensures parents have access to clear, compassionate, trauma-informed legal guidance alongside therapeutic care.
We are deeply grateful to Fuzhan and her team for strengthening protective pathways for survivors and standing alongside our families as they rebuild their lives with safety and confidence.

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