YOUNG PEOPLE FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURHOODS
Aim: To empower young people to help improve their neighbourhoods
Funding: £1.1m, including £1m from the Big Lottery Fund
More than 1,500 young people took part in a scheme to help them make positive changes in their communities.
Groundwork's three-year Young People Friendly Neighbourhoods programme encompassed 18 projects around England.
Groundwork North Northamptonshire's project in Corby saw about 80 young people take part in different schemes. Many were recruited through detached workers on the streets.
"One of the first things we did was to try to get into a community centre used for the over-50s," says Ann-Marie Lawson, programme manager for youth. "We had to try to break down barriers between the generations in order to get in there."
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