The Challenge, run by the social reform organisation ShaftesburyPartnership, will invite young people in Year 11 living in the Londonboroughs of Southwark and Hammersmith & Fulham to undertake challengesaimed at teaching leadership, management and communication skills.
In 2007, the Tories proposed a voluntary National Citizen Serviceprogramme, aimed at engaging 16-year-olds in personal development andcommunity activities. The idea grew from the work of the Young AdultTrust, run by Tory leader David Cameron's youth policy adviser PaulOginsky.
Doug Fraley, leadership director of The Challenge, said: "The programmeis quite different in some specific elements of the finding of theNational Citizen Service policy group but it has the same overallaims.
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