Given that it has been more than six years in the making and several services have already been working from the building since 2005, it did have an unfair advantage.
The final result is something the centre's founders, the youth work sector and the government can be proud of. Without the Dacre family's vision, Norwich would probably never have had a magnificent youth centre; without the efforts of organisations such as 4Children and the National Youth Agency, the government would never have created the Myplace fund; and without a government that believed in the need to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in youth facilities, Open would not provide the range of services it now offers.
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