Goals: To provide free training, support and advice on issues such as health, benefits and careers for young people aged 16 to 25
Funding: Key funders include the Single Regeneration Budget (629,000), the Community Fund (250,000) and other other charitable trusts (360,000).
Twenty-two-year-old Olenka had been clean of heroin for two weeks when she first got involved with The Grove. Within hours of meeting the staff at the centre, she was offered work as a volunteer. "They gave me a chance," says Olenka. "They went that extra mile for me when most people wouldn't bother."
Set up as a resource centre in December last year, The Grove offers advice on housing, careers, training, drugs and nutrition to young people aged 16 to 25 living in the Little London, Woodhouse and University wards of Leeds. Many of its members are homeless or asylum seekers who have been placed in supported housing through the centre's parent organisation, Foundation Housing, a charity for homeless people across North and West Yorkshire.
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