Goal: To offer activities for 10- to 13-year-olds and help them with the transition from primary school into secondary school
Funding: The Children's Fund
Giving young people greater influence over youth work is a much-discussed issue, but for Active Futures it is an everyday occurrence, as its involvement at a local fireworks festival demonstrates.
"The children have a lot of ownership of the projects," explains Jennene Stubbs, project co-ordinator of Active Futures. "We let them come up with ideas and watch them develop. For the fireworks festival all the children wanted to dress up and perform a dance to Michael Jackson's Thriller. We helped them with this and taught them some local history about Pendle's witches."
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