INSPIRATIONAL FEMALES
Name of project: Inspirational Females
Aim: To give young women the chance to gain skills and confidence by planning and organising an event to mark International Women's Day on 8 March
Funding: Supported by Bedfordshire County Council youth service and a youth opportunity fund grant of £6,490
"We're going to prove a group of young women can do more things than have babies and that kind of stuff," says 13-year-old Renelle Campbell.
Renelle is one of the Bedford-based Inspirational Females group, which planned an event to mark International Women's Day on 8 March. The group, set up by Bedford Area Youth Team youth worker Emma Lilly, got off the ground last September.
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