Youth Act has been running in London for five years and works with young people in a number of settings including schools and faith-based youth groups.
Ade Sofola, director of Youth Act, said the aim was to empower young people and get them interested in creating solutions to local problems in a political way.
"If there's a problem with homelessness, one solution would be for young people to buy food, or give money," she said. "But our methodology would be for young people to find out who has the housing budget and try and persuade them to change the way they spend money or to increase the budget."
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