She thought the project might be interesting and signed up to do a couple of hours a week in 1998. By 2002, the New Platform project had grown to include seven part-time staff and a manager. Then in the November of that year the organisation behind the project, GFS Platform, pulled its funding.
"We were told in November that we would be closing down completely in December," says Warr, who was working part time as the project's education co-ordinator and programme planner at the time. "We convinced GFS Platform it couldn't do that and persuaded it to keep paying our wages until February."
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