In a Dragon's Den-style competition at the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) annual conference, three groups set out their schemes aimed at supporting and engaging their peers.
The panel of judges was made up of former winner of The Apprentice and founder of the Bright Ideas Trust Tim Campbell, Bharat Mehta, chief executive of community charity the City Parochial Foundation and Natalie Grant, a 21-year-old member of NCVYS's youth forum Envoy.
The winner was a group of teenagers from the Doncaster YWCA who wanted money to fund the expansion and website of a project that brings girls and young women of different cultural backgrounds together to recycle and sell old clothes.
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