Goals: To provide positive role models and supportive environments for young people, and encourage informed life choices
Funding: The project costs 500,000 a year. Around 75 per cent comes from individual donations, with the rest from faith-based charity The Message Trust and government-funded crime-reduction partnerships
The Eden Project's method of moving Christian workers into the community to live and work alongside young people was pioneered in 1996 in the Benchill area of Wythenshawe, Manchester. At the time, Benchill was officially the most deprived ward in the country, with high levels of poverty, unemployment, and poor access to services.
There are now eight Eden projects in Manchester's most deprived communities.
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