this is 4FRONT
Youth at the forefront, Community at the heart, Healing at the centre.
Since 2012, 4Front has been a community-led movement - challenging injustice, building peace, and holding space for radical healing.
What is 4front?
We weren’t created for young people. We were created by them.
4Front is a community-led youth organisation on a mission to heal communities by building peace, knowledge and power.
Founded by Temi Mwale in 2012, we grew from a grassroots campaign for care into a national force for change - challenging criminalisation, centring healing, and building community power from the ground up.
We’ve supported young people impacted by violence, racial injustice and the criminal legal system - not just to survive, but to transform.
From one estate in North West London to a network of collaborators across the country and the world, our work has always been grounded in lived experience and driven by radical imagination.
What we believe
This is what we believe.
At the core of our work is deep, enduring relationship-building. For over a decade, we’ve built powerful, supportive connections with young people from our local community — Grahame Park Estate. Through that trust, we’ve mobilised young people and families to challenge systemic injustice and create change not only in our neighbourhood, but across the country. We meet people where they are — and fight with them and for them — towards freedom.
Our Model
we built what we needed.
We Build Peace
We have created a grassroots Community Peacebuilding System to respond to harm, rooted in healing and community care.
We provide emergency harm reduction and immediate aftercare in response to serious violence, mental ill health, criminal legal system contact and other crises. We create safe, therapeutic spaces to heal from trauma and cope with loss and grief. We offer specialist advocacy to navigate a range of systemic barriers.
We support personal development journeys that nurture identity, build confidence, and deepen self-determination.
We Build Knowledge
We educate people about harm - and the possibilities for responding to it with care, accountability and connection.
We create opportunities to reimagine peace and justice, and to explore how we build safety rooted in community.
Our focus is on community healing, transformative justice and youth leadership - learning that equips people to grow, lead and take action.
We Build Power
We empower people to confront and dismantle systemic harm and violence.
We document the impact of criminalisation on the lives of racialised youth and imagine how we can repair this harm.
We create spaces for young people, communities and collectives to mobilise with purpose. We bring people together to build the kind of power that transforms not just policy - but culture, relationships, and the future.
We Build Peace
We have created a grassroots Community Peacebuilding System to respond to harm, rooted in healing and community care.
We provide emergency harm reduction and immediate aftercare in response to serious violence, mental ill health, criminal legal system contact and other crises. We create safe, therapeutic spaces to heal from trauma and cope with loss and grief. We offer specialist advocacy to navigate a range of systemic barriers.
We support personal development journeys that nurture identity, build confidence, and deepen self-determination.
We Build Knowledge
We educate people about harm - and the possibilities for responding to it with care, accountability and connection.
We create opportunities to reimagine peace and justice, and to explore how we build safety rooted in community.
Our focus is on community healing, transformative justice and youth leadership - learning that equips people to grow, lead and take action.
We Build Power
We empower people to confront and dismantle systemic harm and violence.
We document the impact of criminalisation on the lives of racialised youth and imagine how we can repair this harm.
We create spaces for young people, communities and collectives to mobilise with purpose. We bring people together to build the kind of power that transforms not just policy - but culture, relationships, and the future.
What We’ve Made Possible
We’ve changed lives. We’ve challenged systems.
4Front has been a space where young people could show up as their full selves - angry, grieving, hopeful, brilliant. It’s been a place to breathe, to build, to heal, to be heard.
In 2020, we transformed a disused chemist on Grahame Park Estate into the UK’s first Community Justice Centre.
We named it after one of our own - and filled it with life, music, food, politics and possibility.
Jahiem’s Justice Centre was always more than a building. It became a home.
Our impact can’t be summed up by outcomes or stats. It lives in the people who came through our doors, the moments we held together, and the community we built - day by day, year by year.
This is what we’ve made possible.
our transition
We’re closing with care.
After 13 years, we are bringing 4Front to a close - with intention, integrity, and love.
The regeneration of Grahame Park, the future closure of Jahiem’s Justice Centre, and the need to honour our own limits have led us to this decision. It hasn’t been easy. But it’s right.
We are using this final chapter to document, reflect, and celebrate everything we’ve built. In 2026, we’ll launch a full legacy archive: a permanent home for our stories, tools, lessons and memories.
This site is a bridge - between what’s been, and what comes next.
With Gratitude and Love
To everyone who made this possible — thank you.
Leading 4Front has meant navigating relentless demands - often without the wider support needed for grassroots, Black-led organisations to thrive.
We’ve held space for grief, for conflict, for systemic injustice - even when there was little space for our own healing. Now, we honour our limits.
We close this chapter with deep pride, knowing 4Front has been a refuge in a society that too often denies young people the space to simply be.
We are proud of what we’ve built. Proud of who we’ve grown. Proud of the world we dared to imagine.
To our young people, families, team, partners and supporters - You are part of this story. You are part of this legacy.
We end as we began - with love, with care, and with radical hope.