Another excellent example is Bolton Lads & Girls Club. Famous for its connection with young boxer Amir Khan, it has an operating model well worth examining in the context of the Youth Matters green paper.
The club receives 2,900 visits from young people every week, each paying 40p for four hours of activities. As chief executive Jeremy Glover points out, even 40p is a lot of money for many of the local kids, but this scale of visits refutes the idea that young people are not interested in youth clubs. As he says, the truth is they don't want to hang out in crap places.
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