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Youth charity Fixers to close

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An ITV-endorsed youth charity has announced its closure after funding became unsustainable.

The Big Lottery-funded Fixers, whose president is the veteran broadcaster Sir Martyn Lewis, is understood to have faced challenges following changes to its funding arrangements in recent years.

The charity's broadcast arm, which aired inspirational news features about young people across the ITV regions every month, ceased to operate last autumn, but the charity continued to run creative youth projects.

In a statement on its website, chairman Ralph Bernard said that the organisation - registered as the Public Service Broadcasting Trust - has  begun a three-month wind-down.

The statement explains that the board of the charity had tried to make the charity sustainable through restructuring, a new strategy and fundraising but was unable to raise enough to support the charity into the future.

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