Growing up with gangs, poverty and knife crime: a look back
This week we are returning to some of our favourite episodes from 2019. The Bollo youth club in Acton is barely a mile from wealthy Chiswick but to the teenagers who use it as a second home, it can feel like a world away. In March, its members told Robert Booth how they navigated a life of poverty, gangs and knife crime
In November 2018, Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty, visited the Bollo youth club in Acton, west London. At the time of his visit, the Bollo was having to move to a building half the size of the previous one and the club members were upset and worried about the transition.