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#Chances4Children: NCS and Onside lead events to tackle youth violence

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Youth organisations have joined forces to host a series of workshops designed to combat youth violence.
Young people attend an event in London. Picture: Damilola Taylor Trust
Young people attend an event in London. Picture: Damilola Taylor Trust

Led by the National Citizen Service (NCS) and youth service provider OnSide, a series of youth-led peer-to-peer workshops are set to kick off in Manchester this month.

Four “Hackathons of Hope” will take place across UK cities including Belfast, Glasgow and Cardiff on different topics where young people discuss and debate the issues that underpin the crime and violence impacting the country’s poorest communities.

The initiative is part of work by the Hope Collective Partnership which was set up in 2020 to support the Damilola Taylor Trust’s 20th anniversary campaign after the 10-year-old schoolboy was stabbed in south London.

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