The initiative, which launched in 2011, is primarily available to 16 and 17-year-olds, but a draft version of a royal charter setting out the governance arrangements of the NCS Trust, the organisation that runs the programme, confirms that 15- to 25-year-olds will be able to take part.
"NCS is primarily a programme for 16- and 17-year-olds, but article 3.2(b) [of the royal charter] allows the NCS Trust to provide the programme to people as young as 15, or as old as 25," the draft document states.
"This ensures the programme is accessible to those who cannot take part aged 16 or 17 due to their individual circumstances."
The wording of the charter states that the primary functions of the NCS Trust is to arrange the provision programmes for young people in England, with "young people" defined as 16 and 17-year-olds.
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