Funding charity Spirit of 2012 and the government-backed #iwill campaign have agreed to provide funding of £10,000 to each organisation to develop respective projects intended to empower girls and young women to change their communities for the benefit of other girls.
Either the NYA project called Fire and Wire, which will work with girls and young women in former mining communities, or a UK Youth project to offer volunteering opportunities for girls with the British Red Cross, will be awarded the full £1.8m.
The Fire and Wire project is being run jointly by the NYA and social action company Platform Thirty1. It focuses on helping girls and young women in former mining communities better understand their potential through neuroscience, psychology and physiology training.
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