Funding Total funding was about £230,600 in 2009/10 from a range of sources including the Football Foundation, Coventry Health Improvement Programme, the Home Office, Community Safety Partnership, Catch22, Sidney Stringer Secondary School and Coventry City Council
Purpose To get disadvantaged young people involved in positive activities and boost their life chances
Background Positive Futures is a Home Office community-based prevention programme that launched in 2001.
The initiative is currently run in 91 areas and is overseen by the charity Catch22. Last month, the programme received £10m in government funding.
Coventry Positive Futures launched in May 2002 to get more young people from the city involved in positive activities. In the past, services had struggled to reach this age group, explains service manager Rashid Bhayat. When he was 17, he set up a voluntary sports organisation that showed how sport was a great way to engage young people.
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