To address the gaps in the curriculum, Hands hopes to bring the world of video games and its benefits to youth clubs. To fulfil this, Learn Play has joined forces with CYC Start, a West Midlands-based youth inclusion project that is part of Brownhills Community Association, to develop and pilot a project where 12- to 16-year-olds test games for video-game companies before their release. Hands has already secured 150,000 from the European Social Fund for the project, which is expected to launch in June. "We will be working with an online games provider called Jolt to try to reach young people not normally targeted, such as the dyslexic, those who face exclusion or those with disabilities," explains Hands.
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