The National Festival of Music for Youth may not take place in 2009unless the charity that runs it, Music for Youth, can raise 200,000 of sponsorship.
It may also have to cut its free concerts for inner-city children inChester and Birmingham that year. The charity's executive director LarryWestland said: "2009 is looking seriously precarious." The warning comesafter the Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced it wouldinvest 666,000 in another project, a music mentoring programmerun by the charity Youth Music.
Meanwhile, a project that provides support for young runaways inCheshire is looking to secure new funding so it can continue itswork.
Home Office funding for the "Talk ... Don't Walk" initiative comes to anend in March 2007 and no further funding has been guaranteed. Projectmanager Alison McCausland said: "We are currently in negotiation withexisting stakeholders to try to secure the funding required."
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