It’s Your Choice, which supports around 1,000 young people with support for their emotional health, information advice and guidance, said it will close on 7 April due to “the lack of longer-term funding opportunities over the last two years of the pandemic”.
“There is not an adequate budget for It’s Your Choice to legally trade beyond early April this year. The grants which we have already sourced are not sufficient to guarantee our work and consequently, these will not be paid over to us,” the charity said.
It added that it is in talks with partner agencies across the New Forest to provide support for young people in the area and that trustees have agreed to review the decision should necessary funding be obtained by 7 April.
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