And not on your own. You would move in with a handful of others, including the odd county councillor. And you'd arrange for young people to set you tasks and periodically vote to evict people from the house.
Well that's what youth workers in Barrow did. They borrowed the idea from a certain reality television show. Their version, retitled Big Mother, was a fundraiser and promotion for their new youth room, the Funky Monkey.
The North West Evening Mail reported how youth worker Wendy Phizacklea was declared the winner after a week in the house. Local young people from the Four Groves Estate in Barrow watched Wendy and the other contestants sleep, eat and play in the Funky Monkey.
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