The money, match funded with £500,000 from O2, will pay for a programme to provide NCS graduates in four English regions - the North West, North East, Yorkshire and South East, with cash awards, training and support from a team of specially employed youth workers.
The project will last for 18 months, during which time young people will build social action projects to benefit their local communities, at the same time as creating volunteering opportunities for their peers.
The concept intends to build on the existing social action element of the NCS, which sees young people create an idea that will have a beneficial impact on their local community and spend 30 hours of their time carrying it out.
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