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Young volunteers offer practical support to empower their disadvantaged peers

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Young people from a deprived coastal community designed and delivered a social action project to support underprivileged peers.

Name The Breadcrumbs Project

Provider CXK and National Citizen Service

A group of 15- to 17-year-olds from Hastings spent four weeks over the summer holidays designing and delivering a social action project that provided much-needed items to disadvantaged young people.

Calling their venture the Breadcrumbs Project, the 13 young people worked together to create and distribute care packages to disadvantaged peers through local young people's centre, Xtrax.

The young people developed the project through participating in the National Citizen Service (NCS) programme, which is delivered in Hastings by south east charity CXK.

The group was motivated to help peers after learning that a third of children in Hastings are classed as underprivileged.

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