Goals: To help young people develop life skills and gain qualifications in building work. It also provides supported accommodation to young people in need of housing
Funding: Costs about 140,000 a year to run. Its main backers are The Rank Foundation and the Lloyds TSB Foundation
For nearly a decade, a vacant TV repair shop stood empty on the high street in Loftus, Teesside, in need of repair. The frontage had been boarded up and the upstairs windows smashed. No-one, it seemed, was willing to take the property on.
Steve Stevenson, co-ordinator of East Cleveland Youth Housing Trust, says: "When we saw the building we knew it would be the ideal project. It was big enough to be converted into two flats and we thought the young people would be able to handle most of the renovations themselves."
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