The three-year, £180,000 project, will engage 120 disadvantaged children in a range of activities, including outdoor community work, that are designed to improve their self-esteem, teach them new skills and raise their aspirations.
The children, aged between eight- and 12-years-old, live on the Manton and Coxmoor estates in Worksop and Kirby-in-Ashfield, and have been selected for the project because they are deemed at risk of offending or have low school attendance.
The funding for the project was secured by Nottinghamshire County Council from public health funds, which councillor Liz Plant, vice-chair for children and young people’s services, says is an innovative way of funding work at a time when children's services budgets are being cut.
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