Tim Morfin, founder and CEO of the national Christian charity, Transforming Lives for Good (TLG), has been awarded OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List.

It’s in recognition of his services to disadvantaged children and young people.

Tim Morfin founded the charity 24 years ago and since then it has helped thousands of young people every year. It helps tackle key issues that children are facing including poverty, food insecurity, exclusion and trauma.

It began when Tim started a youth club with volunteers from his church in inner-city Bradford. After stepping in to help Lewis – a young boy living in an abusive home – a ground-breaking partnership between a local school and church-based volunteers began.

Tim in an interview with Premier News said, “It is very much about seeing the opportunity to intervene early for children who are facing some big challenges in life, many of them really courageously walking through difficult circumstances.

“Our work began with a 15-year-old, but actually, I know that if I’d met Lewis sooner, it would have been possible to make an even bigger difference in his life. So particularly through our early intervention and coaching, we get to match church volunteers, you’re able to spend an hour a week with a child in school and to do that for a whole year.

“And that’s been really transformational as those children are helped, but their families are connected to the love and the care of the local church.”

Tim has led the TLG Team since the charity began to create and grow life-changing programmes that have a tangible impact on thousands of children’s lives all across the UK, and now also in Portugal.

In 2022, TLG helped 4,815 children in 2022 and today there are 128 Early Intervention Centres with trained coaches, each giving an hour a week to one child to support their emotional well-being. 25,000 coaching sessions take place each year.

TLG also trains and equips 82 Make Lunch Clubs that provide vital food and a genuine community for families facing food insecurity and social isolation.

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