Youth sports organisation Greenhouse Progress (GP) is launching two satellite clubs in 2009 as part of plans to attract London's disaffected youth to participate in sports.

The table tennis clubs will be available to the community and post 16s at the Central Foundation School in Tower Hamlets and Ernest Bevin School in Wandsworth. GP currently operates full-time programmes at these schools for 11- to 16-year-olds, but this move is hoped to attract older children who have left school and young adults in the area to participate in team and competitive sports.

Full-time coaches are employed by GP to conduct the clubs at breaks, after school and at weekends. London Mayor, Boris Johnson, has made these clubs the one of the five cornerstones for his strategy to beat London knife crime. GP is the result of Greenhouse Schools Project partnering with West London table tennis community club London Progress in September 2008.

GP currently operates 28 full-time programmes in schools, three community clubs and two centres of excellence for table tennis.