One project that runs an annual talent show is A Team Arts, in the London borough of Tower Hamlets.
Geraldine Bone, youth arts manager, has helped to organise the Raw Talent competition since 2000, but last year the young people decided they wanted to run it.
Bone explains: "Although the young people have helped with the event in the past, last year was the first time that they ran it themselves, with the support of the youth service."
The Raw Talent event, which is held in the Brady Arts and Community Centre every November, aims to celebrate music of black origin. While the young people organised the event, the youth service let them use its office space to make phone calls, meet and use the internet. They decided the theme of the show would be gun and knife crime to help raise awareness of the issue, and the contestants had to relate their performance to the subject through song lyrics or music.
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