The young people all come from New Milton, near Bournemouth, and plan to open the cafe at the local recreation ground in November.
Voluntary organisation Action for Youth is helping to co-ordinate the Asboc - Antisocial-Branded Outcast Committee - scheme, which started in 2005 after three young men with Asbos (Charlie Taylor and Liam Tosdivine, who are both 19, and a third man who cannot be named) approached a local residents' group saying that they wanted to give teenagers more places to go.
As a result, six young people now sit on the committee, and a further six are part of its steering group.
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