The Potential Organisation, whose director Paul Clark is the former director of children’s services at Harrow, has launched a competition offering young people the chance to bid for a starting grant of £200 that will go towards creating an enterprise that benefits their community.
Individuals or groups of up to five young people will be able to apply for the slice of funding and 10 projects will be shortlisted by a board of judges that includes children’s minister Tim Loughton, Sir Hugh Orde, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers as well as actors, sportspeople and media personalities.
Clark said: "We launched this partly because of the economic difficulties of the country and the impact this is having on young people trying to find a job. This is our small way of trying to engage younger children to have that experience with business people, ministers, police and other workforces.
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