The project is part of the Youth Opportunity Fund (YOF) national initiative established in 2006, which gives young people the power to allocate funding for community projects of their choosing.
Birmingham champion for disabled children and young people Tony Phillips-Jones said it had become apparent that disabled young people were at risk of being left out of the YOF process when it first started because they were not being adequately represented in the awarding panels.
One young disabled person said of the scheme: "Able-bodied people rush, they don't give disabled people time to speak. We wouldn't get heard if we didn't have a disabled people's panel."
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