Essex’s first OnSide Youth Zone will provide youth services for young people aged eight to 19, and up to 25 for those with additional needs.
It will be delivered by the national charity OnSide Youth Zones and run as an independent charity with a local board of trustees.
The project, which will be based on Onside Youth Zones model which has 14 sites across the UK, will also create up to 70 full and part time jobs and 100 volunteering opportunities.
Facilities could include a four-court sports hall, 3G outdoor kick pitch, gym, boxing and martial arts room for sports as well as a music room, arts and crafts area, climbing wall, dance studio, sensory room, teaching kitchen and space to deliver projects such as enterprise and employability programmes.
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