The club gets young lads like me off the streets and into a safe and supervised environment - there are now more than 3,000 young people using the facilities and activities each week. I volunteer and help run holiday programmes.
Recently, a group of us took part in the National Lottery's Britain Has Balls tour in Manchester, which was an event to celebrate Lottery funding - I didn't realise the Lottery raises £25m each week for projects like ours. Bolton Lads & Girls Club has really come on recently thanks to a £4m Lottery grant, which went a long way towards funding our new clubhouse and facilities. I feel very proud to be part of something so successful.
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