Announcing the release of £70m of the £300m fund, first mooted in the Conservative Party’s 2019 general election manifesto, Lucy Frazer, MP for South East Cambridgeshire, said that every young person should have “someone to talk to, something to do, somewhere to go”.
Organisations to benefit from the latest release of the YIF, which forms part of the government’s £500m National Youth Guarantee, includes the Blackpool-based Fleetwood Trust.
The trust has been granted £1m to renovate part of an old NHS hospital site into a youth hub to support young people in the community.
The site will house a wider community hub by 2025.
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