Youth in Action organises European youth exchanges, democracy projects and volunteering placements. It is administered in the UK by Connect Youth, which gives regional co-ordinators and their committees 15,000 a year for promotion, to assess grant applications and to help young people and youth workers access the programme. But co-ordinators will lose this money next month because the European Commission wants decision-making centralised.
Miriam Jackson, regional co-ordinator for Yorkshire and the Humber, said: "We doubt that Connect Youth is capable of doing some of the work that the regional committees did."
Gill Millar, the regional co-ordinator for the South West, said: "Without regional support, it will be just big organisations applying, who have experience of doing it before."
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