YMCA ETC
Aim: To provide young people with opportunities to showcase their art and fashion and gain real work experience
Funding: Includes £15,000 of youth opportunity fund cash and about £4,000 from V Inspired
A wrong-number phone call was the start of an exciting YMCA project, which has seen young people help set up and run a shop.
Southend YMCA was given an empty shop in May by an anonymous donor and is using it as a social enterprise project to give young people aged 16 to 25 hands-on experience of running a business. "We got it by accident really. Someone phoned us about the shop but it was a wrong number. However, we said: 'hang on, this sounds interesting'," says Lisa Blatch, volunteering project co-ordinator. "It was quite a brave step as we had no funding and no staff to make it happen."
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